1.   CompUSA stock plummeted after the company reported a fourth-quarter loss that was worse than expected.

2.   That squeezes the remaining short sellers, making their losses even worse.

3.   The falling peso will make American job losses worse, Perot said.

4.   For parents whose children died of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome or other causes, the loss is made worse when authorities cannot shed much light on why they died.

5.   The losses were made worse by management problems and environmental objections that hampered operations of an expensive waste-disposal plant in East Liverpool, Ohio.