Every time we in Nepal think things can t get worse, they do.

In other words, home authorities are left to pick up the tab when things go wrong.

It would be dangerous for America if things went that far.

Whatever the reason, the current US presidential election only seems to be making my allergy worse.

But things might have to get worse before the political mood swings.

The infant, under five and maternal mortality rates are all worsening.

Higher leverage increases their payoffs when times are good as executives and traders are paid based on their return on equity.

George Bush is not alone in worrying that things might get a lot worse before they get better.

The nutritional state of the population in some regions is poor and it gets worse at times of drought and flooding.

Kicillof s second point was that Argentina s businesses and consumers should not succumb to pessimism. Alluding to Keynes s theories about self fulfilling expectations, he warned that, if people expect things to go wrong, they will.

Most of the weight will remain, and one s life prospects will have worsened significantly.

Everyone, including bellicose trade unionists, tends to become more reasonable when the economy turns south.

Growth will be enhanced, but workers may be worse off and not just those who lose their jobs.

And, when things go badly, it becomes the taxpayers problem (or the problem of some foreign government and their taxpayers).

But ties with its neighbour India began to sour, after Nepal finally adopted a new federal constitution in September.

This makes it most difficult to assess with accuracy whether any given situation is improving or worsening.

Perhaps, but perhaps not.

BERLIN Usually, people or institutions are taken to court when things go wrong and a fight ensues about who is liable for the damage.

Sri Lanka's tragedy reminds us how many things can go wrong when old Asian polities seek to establish modern nation states.

If that happens, Japanese conditions will most likely be worse at the end of Abe s term than they are today.

The disorders cause impairment of brain function, including memory changes, personality changes and problems with movement that worsen over time.

Unfortunately this sanitized vision of the economy led most economists to ignore all the things that could go wrong.

I argued that things would not get better until they got much worse, and that the collapse of one of the world s largest financial firms was imminent.

Perhaps.

The reason the problem has gotten worse, rather than better, is because in 1998 we learned something crucial about the universe that we didn't know before.

Even when its relations with Japan are difficult, Japanese tourists flock to Seoul to shop and tour the studios that produce the country s extraordinarily successful television dramas.

The system is slowly cracking, and Italian youth risk becoming the first generation in modern history that is worse off than its predecessors.

It only gets worse from here. I heard this phrase often from my colleague, Lieutenant Antonov, and at that moment I had no reason not to believe him.

You know, maybe we made an error somewhere along the way.

But, when the music stops, it is the home regulator, and the home central bank, that picks up the tab, even if the losses were incurred elsewhere.

She may come.

She might come.

It may rain.

And I actually made up a little character whose name was Mr. Alligator, and I would call him up when things got really bad, and I would say it was time to come and pick me up.

So it may be that, in certain halls, this dynamic may well work.

Unfortunately, this will not happen overnight and, in some cases, conditions might have to become a lot worse in order to focus policymakers minds.

Two hours? One, maybe?

He was a liar.

Maybe you're right.

It may rain tonight.

It may rain tomorrow.

She might come tomorrow.

Maybe Tom likes you.

I may be gone for a while.

Perhaps not.