Word: prone
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...acquisition of Sprewell. If Greene wants to focus only on the player's on-court merits, that's fine. But claiming that Sprewell is too undisciplined a shooter is more or less irrelevant--John Starks, who the Knicks gave up as part of the trade, was equally brick prone...
John says his roommates haven't talked about their blocking plans yet. "It hasn't been brought up in my room," he says. "I guess people are more prone to talk about it if they know they're going to block with each other...
Those going Home should be aware that the natives are, despite reputations to the contrary, often quite kind as well as hospitable. While their culture may appear prone to hostility, those who truly immerse themselves in the culture of Home will soon find the atmosphere to be richly rewarding, and possibly fattening...
...that corner has been turned -- indeed, whether it really has -- is a major subject of contention among experts. "There are many reasons," says TIME correspondent Edward Barnes, "but demographics is probably the most important." The baby boom generation has simply started aging beyond the most crime-prone years. Additional factors include more sophisticated and more effective law enforcement, says Barnes. "Police have analyzed what kinds of crimes serious criminals engage in routinely," he explains, "and they are nabbing suspects in their regular work, grabbing them while they engage in lesser daily crimes before they move on to more serious ones...
BAND-AID Johnson & Johnson sold $3 000 worth of handmade Band-Aids in 1921, the year it introduced them. A company cotton buyer, Earle Dickson, had created them at home for his accident-prone wife. He then convinced his boss that the strips had merit...