Word: prone
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...prevent violence at schools, if only out of fear. The Los Angeles school district hasn't had to deal with a serious shooting incident since 1984. In the entire city of San Francisco, which has half a dozen programs designed to identify students early who may be prone to violence, only two kids brought guns to school last year. But those lessons were learned hard. Joy Turner, whose 19-year-old son was gunned down in inner-city Los Angeles, now spends free time working with young killers to help them understand what they have done to their victims' families...
DAMAGE ASSESSMENT Most of the property damage caused by last week's deadly tornadoes in Oklahoma and Kansas should be covered by standard homeowners' policies. But if you live in a flood- or hurricane-prone area, you can't rely on that kind of relief in the event of a natural disaster. Standard policies, you see, don't typically cover flood damage. Indeed, less than a quarter of the 10 million households near the coasts that are most at risk this summer have additional, government-backed flood insurance, which costs about $300 a year (for information, call...
...pair's hypothesis was that men would choose the urinal the farthest from the one another man occupied when given a choice. They based this on the fact that male primates are prone to violence when confronted with another male and thus keep their distance...
...Tumulty. "The appointment is surprising because it?s a double-edged sword" that could be used by Gore?s opponents. While Coelho?s modern fund-raising in the 1980s helped rejuvenate the Democratic party, says Tumulty, it also helped launch the massive fund-raising efforts that have since proven prone to scandal. An added detail may also be problematic: Coelho left Congress in 1989 amid an investigation of his personal finances...
...desire to change one's genetically endowed proportions and to actively conform to an ideal body type is a tremendous concern for both men and women on campus. According to Shauna L. Shames '01, who organized the eatin, Harvard students are especially prone to eating disorders and obsession with dieting and exercise because of their perfectionist proclivities. Indeed, the eat-in, where hundreds of type-A control freaks treated themselves to an unrestrained feeding frenzy, was certainly a sight to behold...