Word: prone
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Since it took over BL in 1975, the British government has invested $4.4 billion, much of it to modernize the company's production facilities. Yet the problems persist. Workers, already far less productive than their foreign competitors, are prone to going out on strike at the drop of a wrench. BL's management has often been slow to prune outmoded, unprofitable car lines or to react to changes in the auto market. The company, for example, stopped exporting Land Rovers to the U.S. in 1976, mainly because of a shortage of capacity, and thus missed a boom...
...Kekkonen, who energetically supported the policy, called it "active neutrality." But to many Westerners, it has come to signify abject neutrality-or what happens to a lightly armed, nonaligned country in close proximity to the Soviet Union. According to some worst-case scenarios, all of Western Europe would be prone to Finlandization if it unilaterally scrapped the protection of its own and U.S. nuclear arms...
...Love Game: Winning Without Keeping Score"; "Practical Pets to Fit Your Life Style" (fins-down winners are fish). Regular departments cover travel, fashion, finance, food, music, film and books, and there is a column for single parents and a chatty publisher's letter by Douglas, who is prone to such breathless confessions as "I created Intro to solve my own social problems, but wanted to let all of you in on the fun, too." The magazine, put together by Editor Jim Yaeger, boasts a staff of consultants on subjects ranging from child psychology to skin care...
...locale is Hazelhurst, Miss., and the time is "five years after Hurricane Camille," Playwright Henley's little hint that this clan is disaster-prone. Lenny MaGrath (Lizbeth Mackay), the eldest sister, is facing her 30th birthday with "a shrunken ovary" and no gentlemen callers in sight. She is plain of face, finicky in manner and gnawed by self-doubt. She had a heartfelt romance once but skittered away from it in fear and put her emotions in a deep freeze. The kind of event that nails her hysterically to her sun-drenched kitchen wall and illustrates Henley...
...until just 30 seconds remained. Taking the ball at mid-field, Greeley carried it herself into scoring range and fired a scorching grounder at the net. Bruin goalie Kate Lanou deflected the shot with a diving save, but Ferrante, closing from the left wing, pumped the rebound past the prone Lanou to give Harvard the championship trophy...