Word: weaning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Discovery did not come until late 1974, fully eleven years after she married Dukakis. Her husband, just elected Governor, stumbled on her cache of pills. "I told him the truth: I was dependent," she recalls. Her family doctor tried to wean her from the diet pills, but three months later she was again covertly obtaining them from another physician. She continued the charade for eight more years until her husband noticed a stray bill from the doctor who was writing her prescription. Only then did Mrs. Dukakis reluctantly confront her dependency. "I had been taking diet pills for 26 years...
...which he says does little to assist unskilled ghetto youths while benefiting middle-class blacks who are better prepared to take advantage of education and job opportunities. Because of the low number of available jobs in inner cities, the author is wary of widely heralded welfare reforms designed to wean recipients from the dole by requiring them to accept training and jobs. Says Wilson: "If you do create some jobs for those on welfare, you're just going to take them away from the working poor. You have a kind of underclass musical chairs here. You give jobs...
...show's creators said they want to wean people away from the 40-year-old fare that is standard in planetarium shows...
...Hospital, where the President was recuperating from colon surgery. Reagan saw the dangers of an arms-for-hostages swap, but also appreciated the value of new contact with Iran. He bought the idea that arms shipments would be intended to strengthen a group that might eventually be able to wean Iran away from support of terrorism. McFarlane called Kimche in Israel to say the U.S. was interested in seeing what he could work...
...President denied again that he had been trading arms for American hostages held in Lebanon by Muslim zealots influenced by Iran. The purpose of the shipments, he said, had been to give "more prestige and muscle" to factions in Iran that might eventually be able to wean that strategically vital nation away from its bitter anti-Americanism. A few moments before, however, Reagan had conceded, "I said to them that there was something they could do to show their sincerity . . . they could begin by releasing our hostages...