When the Broncos run a lot of plays, they have a propensity to cough up the football, a flaw that lost them their last three regular season games.
The downside of inquiries is that lawyers have a propensity to rack up millions in costs without breaking any of the new ground a gifted reporter like John Ware is able to expose.
Those in upper-income groups with incomes above a million dollars a year tend to have a lower marginal propensity to consume.
And in addition to learning about why lying is good, or why kids have a natural propensity to learn foreign languages, or whether chimps can talk, business executives are taking greater pains to communicate the right impression to customers in a tech-driven world where word-of-mouth can spread like wildfire to affect brand images.
So why do we have a greater propensity to spend dividends and hold onto capital gains?
Statistics--for example, the fact that SUVs have a higher propensity to roll over than do station wagons--don't matter.
Usage of all "non-linear" formats, such as Internet, DVDs, and video on demand, in addition to DVRs, accounts currently for one-third of mass-market TV viewing, but as much as 57% for "early adopters, " those future-defining viewers who have a greater propensity to use leading-edge products and services.
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And the unemployed tend to have a very high propensity to spend their benefits, because they pay bills and little income coming in, running down savings.
The families that would be affected by the tax cut tend to have a higher marginal propensity to spend, which would provide more support for the economy right away.
To the extent that high oil prices played a role in the recessions of the early 1980s and 2008-09, the main reason is that oil-producing countries tend to have a lower marginal propensity to consume their income, denting global demand.
"We had no real alibi for the night of November 1 except each other, and we did not have lawyers to protect us, and we seemed to have a propensity for saying things without thinking them through, " he says.
The State will have to exercise a guiding influence on the propensity to consume partly through its scheme of taxation, partly by fixing the rate of interest .
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One of the famous Steve Jobs stories is his insistence, weeks before launch, that the iPhone had to have a tougher, glass, screen given the propensity for the planned one to be scratched by keys in pockets etc.
His holdings -- past and present -- in some of the world's largest companies, like Gazprom and Goldman Sachs, have seen him make and lose billions at a time, only to resurface rich once more thanks to his propensity to convince banks to extend him credit.
Explanations of a specifically female propensity to shoplift fly in the face of statistics, which, for decades, have shown the gender division of shoplifting consistently hovering around the fifty-fifty mark.
"We'll look at what stage they are in life, what propensity they have to give, what attitudes they have to giving, whether they have an affiliation with a particular cause - whether that's children or international work or emergencies, " she says.
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