Word: weaned
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...fledgling allies. Bush's request for aid to % Namibia, a new African democracy, is an all-but-invisible half a million dollars. Administration officials last year even went hat in hand to Japan and Western Europe to solicit aid for some South American countries that Washington is trying to wean away from economic dependence on the drug trade...
...these inconvenient facts don't discourage conservatives. Eastern Europe's flirtation with social democracy, they believe, is just a symptom of their inability to wean themselves from welfare statism. After the Hungarians and Czechs learn a few tough lessons about the economic infeasibility of welfare, conservatives say, they will see that the only way to true prosperity is the American way--a sink-or-swim economy...