Word: prone
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...observes concede that the new technology is prone to incorrect use, the main problem the Harvard guidelines aim at. Louis J. DiBerardinas, the University's chief industrial hygienist said yesterday that several offices have installed the terminals without concern for glare or the individual user's size Such factors can lead to vision impairment or back pains...
Sociology, in general, is an extremely wide-ranging field prone to battles over such topics as which research methodology is best. At Harvard, this confusion has bred personnel disputes, with professor split over whether to hire empirical specialists, who work often with statistics and computers, or researchers who take a more historical or theoretical approach...
...offers some tidbits not widely known about Agee. Examples: he dropped out of Stanford after his freshman year with some Cs and a D in Spanish and was turned down by Harvard once before getting accepted. Sloan describes Agee, 45, as an aging boy wonder who is as goof prone as the next guy. The author points out that while Agee was chief financial officer of Boise Cascade, the company used questionable accounting methods in land acquisitions. Boise Cascade lost almost $300 million in 1971 and 1972, more than half its net worth at the time...
...measure, ST57 (for Space Transportation System), as the flight is called in NASA's abbreviation-prone parlance, is the most ambitious mission to date. Sally and her companions are so heavily "tasked" (more NASAese) that even the energetic Crippen initially had reservations about the workload for his crew. Still, as the mission got under way, the script seemed under perfect control...
Fitness, like cooking and camping, is prone to gadgetry. Numerous blood pressure devices are on the market. Seiko and several other makers sell watches that monitor pulse. Barre Rorabaugh, president of Huffy's sporting goods division and a participant in the 1979 Boston Marathon, foresees the day when someone will be pumping away on a bicycle, all the while reading his pulse, blood pressure, elapsed time, mileage and calorie burn-off. When Americans are not exercising, they seem to want to read about it or see other people doing it. Health and diet books make...