11.   Low-income patients also fared worse in HMOs than in fee-for-service health plans, the researchers said.

12.   Meanwhile, those sectors of the economy that were already ailing have taken a turn for the worse in recent weeks.

13.   Neither Baldacci nor anybody else seemed to think the Maine version came off the worse in that comparison.

14.   One found that leakage from damaged valves decreased in almost half the patients studied, and grew no worse in almost all the rest.

15.   Perceptions evolve for better or worse in response to observed behavior, not judicial actions.

16.   Relations between Washington and the Sudanese government have gone from bad to worse in the nine years of the fundamentalist regime.

17.   Relations between Washington and the Sudanese government have gone from bad to worse in the nine years of fundamentalist rule.

18.   Sauerbrey similarly tried to undercut the election of her Democratic opponent Parris Glendening by claiming hanky-panky and worse in the handling of absentee ballots.

19.   So my health has taken a turn for the worse in the last four months.

20.   That trade is among the worse in team history.