1.   And so, when Ventura was hit on his big toe with a pitch against the Montreal Expos on Wednesday night, it only made matters worse.

2.   A bout with the flu before the world championships last month in Sestriere, Italy, made matters worse, he said.

3.   Making matters worse are the close ties many bankers and businessmen have with the government, which helps them successfully to keep their banks open.

4.   Quaker got off on the wrong foot with Snapple by paying too much and then made matters worse with a series of management and marketing missteps.

5.   She said NATO made matters worse in Kosovo, and thinks the saber-rattling denunciations of Milosevic prolonged the war.

6.   To make matters worse for Clinton, his own support seems, while broad, perfunctory.

7.   Jacob Talbott, a freshman at Southern Illinois University in Carbondale, said bars off campus that pull students in with discount pitchers of beer make matters worse.

8.   Making matters worse are signs of a faltering economy in Japan.

9.   Making matters worse are modern types of food production.

10.   The adjustment is difficult but if barriers are put up against liberalization it would only make matters worse.