Word: prone
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...aftermath of the ferry carnage, the decision to put such a violence- prone person back on the streets outraged observers, officials and doctors alike. New York City Mayor Ed Koch ordered his mental-health commissioner to investigate the procedures that were followed from the time Gonzalez was taken to Presbyterian to the time he was arrested...
...their own frequent accounts in the public prints, the Lloyds are prone to slight disagreements. He has liked rock music; she has liked a rock musician. But they differ on nothing else quite as much as tennis. To Chris, "It's in your blood, putting something on the line every day. It's a great feeling when you win. And when you lose, I think you're wiser." But the Englishman she married in 1979 never regarded tennis as a blood sport or a life. While Chris expressed eagerness even for practice, John had to admit, "It was such...
Gale is a somewhat controversial figure. Some colleagues at UCLA privately complain that the talented researcher is prone to self-promotion. Gale has also received a written reprimand from the National Institutes of Health for failing to get proper approval before performing experimental procedures on cancer patients. For his efforts last week, however, Gale was personally thanked by Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev, first in the Soviet leader's televised speech to his nation and again in a meeting in Gorbachev's office. That marked a rare tribute to a foreigner by a country that prides itself on being self-sufficient...
...John Badham's efficient realization of a script by S.S. Wilson and Brent Maddock may strike you as entirely too preachy keen. Ally Sheedy and Steve Guttenberg are the lovers matched by the machine; Austin Pendleton and Fisher Stevens are funny as, respectively, an ambiguous enemy and the malaprop-prone friend of what is finally just a pretty good special effect...
Actually the problem was not so much what Bush was trying to say (a case can be made that wild drops in oil prices are not an unalloyed good) as the way he bumbled into the issue. It only reinforced the image, devastating to front runners, that he seems prone to political gaffes. At a Washington press conference before leaving on his trip, Bush was asked whether he intended to urge Arab leaders to cut back production to check falling oil prices. "Our answer is market, market, let the market forces work," Bush replied. "We're not going there...