According to polling done by the National Golf Foundation, more than 70 percent of golfers believe pace of play has worsened lately and half have admitted to walking off the course in frustration during a marathon round.
Delinquency and foreclosure rates were highest in states like Ohio and Indiana, which are suffering from the loss of high-paying manufacturing jobs, and Louisiana and Mississippi on the Gulf Coast, where a slow pace of reconstruction has worsened the pain from hurricane damage.
This year, the pace of the killings has worsened; as of Friday the death toll stood at 110, or 16percentt higher than at the same time last year.
In March, when the monsoon abates and the Arabian Sea grows calmer, the pace of the attacks will quicken.The problem has worsened sharply in recent years.
Youth unemployment has worsened and Italians have grown increasingly impatient of the slow pace of reform and the continuing decline of families' income and living standards.
The killing has worsened.
Traffic, too, has worsened.
That conflict has worsened.
Over time, corruption has worsened.
