Word: weaning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...extended families, might have to concern themselves with helping the old and the disabled is relatively new in history. Imperial Germany in 1889 enacted the first pension plan, financed by equal contributions from employers and employees, largely because Chancellor Otto von Bismarck saw it as a method to wean the masses away from socialism. As he explained candidly: "Whoever has a pension for his old age is far more content and far easier to handle than one who has no such prospect." Similar plans were adopted by most other major industrial nations over the next three decades...
...cuts in social spending, Lekachman says that, contrary to Administration work ethic homilies, cutting welfare benefits to the working poor will discourage work in many cases. Of course, the Reagan budget cuts are designed to wean us of our dependence on Washington. But Lekachman makes the more realistic suggestion that the cuts will merely intensify the politically divisive scramble among interest groups to get on board the rapidly departing federal gravy train...
...convinced that the taste of salt masks the natural flavor of foods-a lifelong coverup. If you wish to wean your taste buds away from salt, the object is to find other flavors that will distract your palate...
...goal is to get at the causes, not the effects; to transform mean and then let then transform their world. Yeah, and how? Maybe through organized religion, a force for change in Poland and Latin America, the only force on this earth that with any regularity seeks to change wean for the better. But maybe not, too, because the same hatreds that have corrupted the rest of the world have corrupted religion in so many places--in this country, for instance, where some of the largest groups of Christians have become rabid fans of the New Right. Maybe through...
Enter Mitterrand. In an effort to wean Oueddei away from Gaddafi, Mitterrand supported the proposal for an inter-African force, invited Oueddei to Paris, supplied his army with some small arms and repeated an earlier offer to help rebuild the Chadian army in a neighboring country, probably Cameroon. In early October, the French Development Minister, Jean-Pierre Cot, demanded the withdrawal of the Libyans from Chad by the end of the year. Oueddei, bolstered by the French, openly criticized the Libyan presence...