Word: proned
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Should parents worry? Yes, particularly if they have toddlers prone to putting toys in their mouths. At least one child has died from swallowing the magnets, which can clump together in the intestines. Eating lead paint can cause vomiting and brain damage...
...Southeastern United States finds itself in the midst of another hurricane season, a new study suggests that residents of hurricane-prone counties are relaxing their guard...
...Investments grab the headlines. Yet there are more than 9,500 funds managing upwards of $1.74 trillion in assets, according to Chicago-based Hedge Fund Research, Inc. Many of those funds individually run a mere billion or three. This group of hedgies tend to be secretive loners, not prone to trading recipes...
...plausible. A recent paper suggested that falling crime rates can be explained almost entirely by reduced lead exposure in childhood. Which was odd, because last year economist Steven Levitt's best seller Freakonomics chalked up the improvement to legalized abortion, which, he theorized, cut the number of unwanted children prone to wind up as criminals...
...half hours after the explosion. "No terrorism... No criminality." According to Con Ed, the incident was caused by an operational problem in the area. Millions of pounds of steam course through pipes below New York City streets every hour, heating and cooling thousands of buildings. They can be prone to breakage: in 1989, a massive steam explosion that sent mud and refuse several stories high killed three people. Bloomberg said that a 24-inch steam pipe, installed in 1924, had broken. The likely causes, he added, were cold water from a massive morning rainstrom getting into the pipe...