Word: penchant
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...Renown for his flair for publicity and a penchant for jogging suits, Sharpton is now pushing his own program of election reform, whose principal objectives are the adoption of a uniform standard for voting machines, vote-counting and voting roll purges...
...presenilin 2. In a series of experiments, researchers established that these genes exercised tight control over the activity of gamma secretase. They found that the particular mutations in the Alzheimer's-prone families not only increased the rate at which gamma secretase produces beta amyloid but also enhanced its penchant for making the more toxic version...
Retroactively, I have found I had a real winter break this year. I didn't think of it as a vacation. There was reading, writing and research, and the traditional grumbling in the face of friends on a between-semesters break of the type that Harvard, due to a penchant for believing class should begin after Labor Day, seems unlikely ever to adopt. Yet, at brunches with friends, on lazy days in front of the television and when relishing the luxury of having parents who believe that college students can come home and not have to do their own laundry...
Overall, the Crimson turned in what was perhaps its best all-around effort on the year. For all the good that came out of the team's convincing 70-57 victory over BU last week, Harvard could still not shake its penchant for turnovers, as they gave the ball away 28 times. On Saturday, however, the Crimson started down the road to eliminating that pesky problem altogether...
...private Arafat considers Clinton's plan an American-Israeli offer only marginally better than the one he rejected at last July's Camp David summit. The Palestinian leader distrusts Barak. Arafat's letter to the White House demanding details wasn't frivolous, his aides insist. Barak has a penchant, they complain, for publicly tossing out bold proposals, then backing away from them when the negotiations begin...