Word: prone
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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GoBots first appeared in Japan last year but did not test well in the U.S. at first. Then marketers packaged comic-book-style stories of good vs. evil featuring their violence-prone figures, and the GoBots and other robots took off into hyperspace...
...Anderson would send his balloons about 140,000 feet up and then drop packages of measuring instruments by parachute, allowing them to take readings of the chemical composition in the air as they hurtled back to earth. Anderson says that although the experiments yielded useful information, the results were prone to error and difficult to test for accuracy since each experiment was a one-shot deal...
Other valley firms are discovering that high technology also involves high risks. Promised breakthroughs can be delayed and then produce few benefits. In addition, the high-tech firms are equally prone to the ailments that afflict all companies: miscalculation, mismanagement and even misfortune. Some electronics and computer firms along Boston's Route 128 are experiencing problems similar to those afflicting the valley...
...covering or watching the Games, has at times been carried away by tides of patriotism and even chauvinism. ABC reporters have unabashedly rooted for U.S. competitors and given short shrift to the athletes of other nations. The expert commentators, almost all of them former U.S. Olympians, have been particularly prone to this. Gymnast Cathy Rigby McCoy, for example, repeatedly implied that the U.S. women gymnasts had been cheated of the team gold medal by judges who favored Rumania or China...
Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini to power. There were no signs during Genscher's visit that Iran's fanatical Shi'ite Muslim leaders had changed their opinion of the U.S. "devil," but West German officials found them less prone to heap verbal abuse on the West. When Genscher expressed concern about the fighting in the gulf, the Iranians said they were also eager to prevent the war from widening...