Word: prone
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...With fewer men available, more of a heavy work burden will be placed on the older men," a Cambridge official said. They are prone to more heart attacks because they're not as physically capable, he added...
...much as we'd like the President to understand his Administration's policies and this nation's history before discussing them at press conferences, that hope is likely of no avail. Suffice it to say that we look forward to the day when we can tell our error-prone chief executive. "There you go again"--this time, for good...
...that of the M60, which the new tank replaces. Yet the M-l has been plagued with problems during development, and costs have now reached $2.43 million apiece (compared with $1.2 million for the M-60). The main problem was that the 1,500-h.p. turbine engine was prone to break down. Philip W. Lett, the tank's chief engineer at Chrysler Defense, Inc., concedes: "We still have to prove the engine's durability." But Chrysler now feels confident the tank will perform as planned...
...spokesmen for both left and right can avoid historymongering, so much the better. There is a converse to Philosopher George Santayana's famous warning, "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." It is equally true that those who dwell obsessively on the past are prone to poor analysis, divisive debate, unconstructive criticism and bad decisions as they face the future. In short, they are doomed to ask the wrong questions, which can only yield the wrong answers. -By Strobe Talbott
...erupted into a public game of chicken. Said a Thatcher spokesman last week: "This government does not regard De Lorean as a bottomless pit. You can't keep throwing good money after bad." De Lorean quickly reminded officials that his firm provides 2,600 jobs in a violence-prone and depressed section of Northern Ireland, where few corporations have ventured...