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The Economic Policy Institute and the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities issued a joint study today called "Pulling Apart" that shows, on a state-by-state and national basis, that income inequality in the United States has continued to worsen in the past decade, building on a trend that began in the late 1970s.
To worsen things, the author is not even consistent within the framework of this distinction.
The LAT says that what's prompting the U.S. push to Japan is the fear that if something isn't done soon, the Asian crisis could worsen.
Online auctions worsen the winner's curse by increasing the number of bidders.
Based on the potential of contrast material to worsen the respiratory condition of patients with ALI, its administration to assist in differentiating between lung consolidation and pleural effusion does not appear justified.