31.   A Bosnian defeat, however, would leave the beleaguered government far worse off than before.

32.   A majority fear that the next generation will be worse off than the current one.

33.   Actually, families may not be much worse off than in the past.

34.   Advanta, while perhaps worse off than many of its competitors, is certainly not alone.

35.   Advocates fear some families may be worse off.

36.   All these disagreements presage months of strikingly different claims about whether workers would be better or worse off if private retirement accounts are created.

37.   But critics say the result will more likely be islands of excellence that leave existing schools worse off than before.

38.   But does that mean we are worse off?

39.   But Dole said challengers, most of them Republicans, would have been worse off under the plan Mitchell and most Democrats backed.

40.   But fearful investors who stay on the sidelines will probably be worse off.