31.   The terrorist attacks on New York and Washington could worsen the problem.

32.   The White House argues the price caps will worsen the problem by discouraging energy companies from generating and selling electricity to California.

33.   This fear will worsen problems that have caused the competitive fund and insurance community here to band together to find solutions.

34.   This concern will worsen problems that have caused the fund and insurance community here, which traditionally is competitive, to band together to find solutions.

35.   Underpriced energy, economists say, only worsened the problem, as economically inefficient factories spewed enormous amounts of untreated exhausts and chemical wastes into the atmosphere.

36.   Waco school board members are not troubled by that message, but worry the program could worsen the problem.

37.   With that, they worsen the problems, or at the very least, postpone the true solution.

38.   Police officials said that the problems were worsened by criminal gangs seeking a share of the lucrative market.

39.   A continuing economic slump and sharply falling land prices worsened the problem.

40.   A recent surge in falsified visas has worsened the problem, the Dominican Foreign Affairs Secretariat said in a statement.