51.   But Microsoft is no worse than any of these other guys.

52.   But officials in many states say their students test no better or worse than their peers in other schools.

53.   But others see a period of continued isolation and further hardship, with the future only worse than the recent, terrible past.

54.   But somehow, he never considered himself poor, or no worse off than most other folks he knew, and the family eventually sent three children to college.

55.   But they may be no worse than schools elsewhere.

56.   But under communism, they at least lived no worse than anybody else.

57.   But they also are politicians, not much better or worse than countless politicians before them who offered hope, threw mud, sometimes delivered and often disappointed.

58.   Cal State Northridge senior Scoody Woods, who endured three losing football seasons, each one worse than the one before, almost cried before his final game Saturday.

59.   But, then, I never faced any challenges worse than heavy snow.

60.   Carman, the Sierra Club official, said the argument that napalm was no worse than other Ship Channel chemicals was beside the point.