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...aims to end the most desperate addicts' dependence on prostitution and crime to pay for their habit. "We hypothesize they can stabilize their lives and get onto a better path," says Dr. Martin Schechter. The hope is that they will then be more ready to enter a program to wean themselves off the drug...
...drop from roughly 40% to 30%--and no further--and serve up $3 in earnings per share, vs. last year's operational EPS of $2.62. To longtime Kodak watchers, this optimism smacks of old times: Kodak trumpeted its digital aspirations nine years ago--and failed to deliver, unable to wean itself from traditional film businesses and their 60% margins. Is this just another false start? "Everybody's been skeptical," says Carp, "except we've put the numbers on the board...
...seize control of the Sunni triangle from the insurgents in time for nationwide elections in January. U.S. officials say that as part of the strategy, the interim Iraqi government will try to win over the rebel-controlled towns by pouring security personnel and reconstruction funds into them, hoping to wean local residents from their support of the insurgents. If that doesn't work--and if the central government is unable to negotiate peace with the guerrillas--the U.S. military and its Iraqi allies are prepared to attack...
...There I was surrounded by talented writers and researchers who would prepare the first drafts of position papers or speeches, which I would extensively edit. By contrast, here at the Kennedy School, all the writing was mine from start to finished product. I admit that it took time to wean myself from the reflex of expecting a rough draft to appear magically on my desk ready for my energetic editing. At the Kennedy School, if the paper appeared on my desk, I was the one who had placed it there...
...well that his isolationist countrymen had scuttled Woodrow Wilson's bid to claim that leadership after World War I. He was worried that demanding too great a sacrifice in World War II might once again sour the nation on assuming its international responsibilities. Then all his painstaking work to wean Americans from their provincial ways would be squandered and the world once again rendered unsafe for democracy...