1.   It is not clear whether the spill exacerbated those trends.

2.   The Boeing job cuts are only going to exacerbate that trend.

3.   The tax bill approved by Congress and signed by President Clinton earlier this year will only exacerbate that trend, according to the report.

4.   This trend will be exacerbated by increased demand in the developing world.

5.   This trend was exacerbated in Northeastern cities as the industrial economic base folded.

6.   Worries abound that the Federal Reserve will exacerbate the trend by tightening credit conditions.

7.   Foreign portfolio investors and domestic savers followed and exacerbated the trend.

8.   The election of Netanyahu and his governing coalition of rightwing and religious parties at the end of May only exacerbated the trend, they said.