1.   Further, the public name-calling and finger-pointing this week might have worsened the prospects of a long-term solution to the battle of the budget.

2.   Other factors may also contribute to worsening employment prospects for physicians.

3.   Today the government extended a ban on mackerel fishing, worsening the prospect for an improvement.

4.   Worsening economic prospects for South Korea is likely to make that debt even harder to pay off.

5.   The economic slowdown in the United States has worsened prospects for this nation, which has long relied on exports to keep growth going.

6.   The slump was reflected more acutely in worsening job prospects for school graduates.

7.   This, most observers and politicians agreed, would have fueled a combative atmosphere likely to worsen peace prospects.

8.   Such passage would only worsen the prospects of any solution to problems between Cuba and the U.S., Fernandez de Colosio said.