While saying he understood that Senator Rice "honestly believes this will worsen a horrible problem," Mr. Vitale insisted that the continuing spread of disease through infected needles required an immediate solution.
Climate change is also predicted to put more stress on the Louisiana coastal wetlands and to worsen an existing problem in the Chesapeake Bay of a summer "dead zone," an area where the oxygen has been depleted.
While stress and overwork in themselves are not mental health problems, being exposed to prolonged periods of unmanageable stress can cause or worsen a mental health problem, according to Mamo.
The Coalition for a Livable West Side, which brought the suit last fall, asserted that truck deliveries to the center would worsen a growing traffic problem in the neighborhood.
Critics of the decision, including the Roman Catholic Church, said that the decision stretched the "autonomy" concept too far and that it could worsen a public health problem and overstretch the country's health infrastructure, which struggled badly recently in its response to swine flu.
But its falloff only worsened a longstanding problem at ABC: too many seasons with too few hits.
Tens of thousands of civilians have fled the violence in northern Yemen in recent weeks, human rights groups say, worsening a refugee problem that has grown steadily over several years of on-and-off violence.
The recession was only worsening a fundamental problem: the industry's physical product, printed paper, was going the way of the rotary phone, and no one had yet figured out how to generate comparable revenues online.
The Chinese city of Wuhan had called off its display to avoid worsening a smog problem.
Nancy Bruning, president of the Friends of Fort Tryon Park, is worried about the proposal to straighten the S-curves, which would likely eliminate some parkland and worsen a local drag-racing problem.
