Word: prone
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...trio of stellar sophomores with junior Lindsay Hallion running the point and senior Christiana Lackner dominating the boards—to power a high-scoring offense. While youth was often a blessing, it was sometimes a curse—the Crimson’s young starters could be prone to forcing the flashy play, shooting too early in the shot clock, and committing turnovers...
More puzzling, though, were Harvard’s defensive miscues, which came not only in an error-prone opening half but down the stretch as well...
...anything but the most capable people in his cabinet in order to give himself and France the best chance of succeeding," Duhamel says. He says the idea of grading ministers was actually pushed by Fillon, despite Sarkozy's wariness it would create more tension in a cabinet already prone to division. "In the end, they realized the scheme will create pressure, but it also provides a useful for measuring reform progress and competency," says Duhamel. "That's entirely new in French politics...
...curious. "The thing about the 'drag' and the 'curious' is that it's really hard to poll beforehand who they are because they don't know who they are until just before the caucuses," Bender says. Even inside the caucus room the 'drag' are unpredictable because they are so prone to changing horses...
...fact, a moment of medical nostalgia that prompted the pilot study that became the foundation for the VA trial. Recalling his days as a surgical resident in the 1970s, Hinshaw says older nurses would regularly give massages to frail, elderly patients prone to delirium on postoperative drugs. The treatment - standard at the time - helped those patients. "But now most of the nurses who practice it are retired," he says, and, now, medical training adheres more strictly to quantitative means of evaluating patient progress. So, patients' individual concerns and worries are sometimes swept aside in the process, preventing them from receiving...