Word: weaning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...wild so long now that he may be beyond redemption. Ghetto children today are seduced much earlier by drugs and the street, some of them as young as eight or nine. That is the time they need help. Sinbad Lock wood, a Bed-Stuy street artist who tries to wean boys like Baby Love away from the streets to painting, says, "It be the parents' fault, they gets rid of the kids by sending them to the candy store where they be buying reefer and beer. These kids ain't no monsters-they be raising themselves, that...
Scientists know almost nothing about raising young belugas-when, for example, to wean the calf and begin giving it a regular diet of mackerel and herring...
...receiving an influx of well-dressed, well-to-do men and women who have sorely underestimated it. In Manhattan alone, dozens of such people can be seen early each morning standing in line at the clinic of Greenwich House West, where they are administered methadone in an attempt to wean them from heroin...
McEnroe doesn't have to whine for points the way little kids do when they know they have double faulted but cry "cheater" in frustration anyway. McEnroe wails and curses because he is too lazy to wean himself away from the habits he perfected at Port Washington so many years ago. Whether or not he wins Wimbledon, surpasses Borg, or becomes the greatest player ever, he will never receive the respect of a champion if he doesn't learn to keep his raquet on his side of the court divider and his mouth shut...
They will have to work even harder than before. El Salvador's land-reform program is based on the hope that the country's peasants will be willing to do so, and that land ownership will wean their loyalty away from the leftists and toward the government. The appearance of Ehrlich, who is touring the new cooperatives "village by village, finca by finca," is evidence of the degree to which the government has staked its future on land reform's success. At the Finca Florencia, he told campesinos of the risks and hardships ahead. "Now that power...