Word: weaning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Most Kentucky Fried Chicken outlets now serve Coke rather than Pepsi, but that could change. A PepsiCo official said the company will not break contracts between KFC and Coke but will work "vigorously" to wean its franchisees from the Real Thing...
...change the habits of his country's 120 million thrifty citizens. On the eve of a weekend visit to Camp David to discuss the seven-nation annual economic summit that Japan will host in May, Nakasone accepted a report by a Cabinet advisory committee that outlined ways to wean the Japanese away from an export-led economy by boosting local consumption. During his scheduled three-hour session with President Reagan, the Prime Minister was expected to explain how his government would translate those aims into policy. Said Nakasone: "Japan can no longer be an island of solitary prosperity, with...
...been reshaping the power structure of the Soviet Union. He has broken the back of high-level cronyism that flourished for nearly 20 years under former Party Leader Leonid Brezhnev, until his death in 1982. The new man at the helm has given fair warning that he intends to wean the country from deeply ingrained habits, including alcoholism, corruption and sloth. Gorbachev's speech this week will show the direction in which he intends to lead his country...
...colonial times everyone had to "wean modest and sober habit." "Strange ruffian like new langled fashions," including gold and silver were strictly prohibited...
...spun through these revelations, Foreman was crawling in and out of his truck, opening and closing gates, feeding animals, trying to convince a colt that if he did not wean himself soon his mother would waste away, pausing to brag about his bass pond, saying he would never shoot deer because he is awed by them--his word, awe--and gently pulling back the branches of budding forsythia to clear the trail for a companion, who felt small...