71.   The agreement avoids symbolic gestures that create a good impression while making the situation worse.

72.   That, however, would almost certainly make the situation worse for the people who need help the most.

73.   The approaching winter threatens to make a bad situation worse.

74.   The best thing we can hope for is a budget that does not make the situation worse.

75.   The Colts blitzed everyone but Bob Irsay to make a bad situation worse.

76.   The concerns were based on the belief that hijackers wanted to live to fulfill their goals and therefore having a gun aboard could make a bad situation worse.

77.   The current war has made a difficult situation immeasurably worse.

78.   The desperate need for new jobs made the situation much worse.

79.   The Internet twist, she said, likely will make a bad situation only worse.

80.   The so-called circuit breakers that twice halted New York Stock Exchange trading on Monday afternoon might have made the psychological situation worse, by allowing tension to build.