Word: prone
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Playing under New England Rugby Football Union Tournament rules, the Crimson and Huskies played 25-minute halves instead of the usual 40-minute halves, and the time reduction hurt a penalty-prone Harvard squad...
...blocking has been fine, although against the big Northeastern squad the line had problems opening up any holes. This unit, like the entire Crimson squad, has been penalty prone. Grade...
...theirs." Since 1972, for example, the Soviets have been struggling to establish a continuous early-warning launch-detection satellite system. Since these satellites generally have short life-spans, says a Washington analyst, "the Soviets are forever launching those early-warning systems." As a result, the Soviet brass are less prone than their American counterparts to depend heavily on them. Says Johnson: "The military environment will not collapse without those satellites. They are there simply to enhance and increase the efficiency of Soviet ground-based systems...
...transatlantic double acts the Met does so well, in cahoots with the Musee du Louvre in Paris, we have a show of 71 paintings organized by Jeannine Baticle of the Louvre. From this panoramic exposure a new Zurbaran emerges -- both stronger and weaker, more intense and yet more prone to hackwork, than one had imagined...
...electronics giants, Samsung and Lucky-Goldstar. Earlier, Hyundai Motor Co., producer of the popular subcompact Excel, lost $24 million after it failed to ship 6,000 cars. Though the government is leaving the search for solutions to labor and management, it began to move against the violence prone, arresting two workers for destroying an auto-parts factory and three fishermen for wrecking equipment in a Pusan market. Warned Labor Minister Lee Hun Ki: "If the current disputes are further aggravated to threaten the national economy and the security of our society, the government will take tough actions...