11.   Others come back, sometimes changed for the worse by their travels.

12.   President Clinton headed home Tuesday night to an increasingly grim political situation made worse by the decision of several moderate Republicans to support his impeachment.

13.   The soil is to blame, as always, at least somewhat, with things made worse by heat and lack of rain.

14.   This was made worse by confusion about whether to believe reports of sluggish retail sales due to bad weather or the bright jobs reports of the government.

15.   Woefully substandard production values give it a ghastly look, made all the worse by the grotesque computer morphing of young children into adult-style wise guys.

16.   An economy that looked uncertain in January had taken a turn for the worse by spring budget season.

17.   Believers were banned from many jobs and often treated with suspicion or worse by Communist Party activists.

18.   Critics have long complained that the bank and the fund make global poverty worse by insisting on debt repayment from countries already hopelessly burdened by obligations to their creditors.

19.   Dust storms, made worse by extensive deforestation, sweep across northern China each spring.

20.   Thai ministers were once notorious for making traffic jams worse by traveling in police motorcades, forcing everyone else to pull over and wait while they went by.