101.   Compounding the problem, McCormack said, is a shortage of polling places.

102.   Compounding the problem, the report said, is government funding of offset deals.

103.   Compounding the problems is the strength of the British pound, which makes exports expensive and lets importers reduce prices without cutting profits.

104.   Compounding the problems of the running game are the injuries to the offensive line.

105.   Compounding their problems are declines in public spending since many regional construction companies are dependent on civil engineering projects.

106.   Clinton aides failed to research the exact number of abortions performed by Foster, and Foster later compounded the problem by saying he had performed fewer than a dozen.

107.   Congress compounded the problem by putting a big chunk of this money in escrow.

108.   Compounding her problem, the intended recipients of the gifts could not enter the United States because they did not have visas.

109.   Compounding that problem is that Mrs. Clinton has tried to cantilever a symbolic position into true political power and to formalize informal influence.

110.   Compounding that problem is the Japanese investment culture, in which long-standing financial and economic relationships between pension funds and their managers remain formidable barriers to entry.