We are prone to view ourselves as fearless explorers in the New Digital World.
They are prone to errors due to the biases and limited knowledge of the decision makers.
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Semi-fixed systems cannot withstand the assault of integrated capital markets: they are prone to self-fulfilling panics.
They use different strategies, have different strengths, and are prone to different kinds of mistakes.
Long-haired breeds such as Maltese and shih tzus are prone to mats, making regular brushing essential.
Many leaders are prone to wait until a problem occurs before they give feedback.
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The same cannot always be said for electric utilities, which are prone to conservatism and institutional inertia.
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Honda also encouraged Northwest to not overengineer its dies, as American tool companies are prone to do.
While their economies are more complementary with Japan's than is Korea's, they are prone to asset bubbles.
People who are prone to claims, like physicians, can arrange their affairs to protect their assets from judgments.
They are prone to developing osteoporosis, a disease where bones become weak and are more likely to break.
Radio devices use a lot of power, and are prone to interference from others operating on similar frequencies.
Analysts are prone to complain that it's inefficient for FedEx to have separate delivery fleets for air and ground.
Boats are not for people who are prone to seasickness or fear spiders.
Markets are prone to an endless succession of irrational exuberance that allows commodities to dramatically overshoot their intrinsic value.
Most of us are prone to taking sides in these kinds of things but really, there is no side.
Others lamented that due to their nature, Kickstarter projects are prone to delays.
Consumers are prone to make impulse purchases at historic and rare sporting events.
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Those batteries are prone to heat up and the 787 battery design makes it difficult to vent that heat.
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Lithium-ion batteries are prone to overheating and require additional safeguards to prevent fires.
In this context, status quo security and economic interests are prone to clash.
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Some analysts have suggested that airlines are prone to copy one another's pricing strategies without that necessarily involving direct collusion.
Markets are prone to unpredictable human behavior, violent economic swings, powerful natural disasters, sudden commodity shortages and crippling cyber outages.
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These firms are prone to creating lucrative consulting deals for former consultants and maintaining other ongoing business relationships with their former owners.
Individuals who are prone to wandering need extra care to monitor them.
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It turns out that transistors in these flash-memory devices are prone to being gummed up with electrostatic charge that they cannot dissipate.
Wally Covington, a professor of forestry at Northern Arizona University, reckons that 75m acres of western forests are prone to severe wildfire.
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He contends that the vast majority of people are prone to cheating.
Basketball players are prone to stress fractures in the tibia, the larger of these two bones, and that can weaken them, he said.
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