Word: prone
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...caused Washington to consider leaving Pakistan off the itinerary, which would have been a propaganda coup for India and Bangladesh, the other stops on his tour. "President Clinton feels very strongly that it's important to maintain direct personal relationships with foreign leaders, particularly with leaders of countries as prone to crisis as Pakistan is," says TIME Washington correspondent Massimo Calabresi. "He was particularly struck by the effect his personal relationship with Nawaz had in allowing the U.S. to persuade Pakistan to withdraw from Kargil last July [after they'd crossed onto the Indian side of the disputed Kashmir border...
Even though the death of a relative may make a family prone to turn inward, parents should be mindful that when children are grieving, they especially need their friends. A kid will express his sadness to his friends in a way he might not to his parents, especially when they are sad too. When I asked Martha what was most helpful in coping with her grandmothers' deaths, she said, "Talking. Talking with my best friend was the best thing...
...suggestion: either have kids or change jobs. Researchers found that childless couples who work for the same employer tend to have a lower quality of life than either their counterparts with kids or couples who work for different employers. Without children to balance their lives, these nonparents were more prone to let negative work experiences, like job dissatisfaction and stress, invade their relationship...
...dressing up and sleeping around, while expressing a smug self-loathing for the callousness of their gender. A few strive for empathy and thoughtfulness (Alexander Theroux and Brian Bouldrey stand out), but for the rest of these men, being a woman too often means feeling angry, oppressed or prone to tears...
...what I like to call the Murphy's Law of Blind Referees, the retaliating player gets caught and called for the foul, while the one who instigated the shoving gets the ball back along with a new 24-second clock. I worry that we as voters may be prone to Blind Referee syndrome, forgetting who started the mudslinging first, thereby giving the advantage to the guy with the ball, the money and the longer-running negative commercial...