• From Kansas City, Missouri, Kauffman, which maintains the gold standard of entrepreneurial policy, seeks to wean Washington from its addiction and put America back on the road to national greatness.

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  • Why must carriers slowly wean themselves from traditional phone networks before moving to Internet Protocol technology?

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  • In that context, can mobile wean us from paper where other technologies have failed?

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  • It helps his war against terrorism, by potentially helping to wean America from its dependence on Middle Eastern oil.

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  • He will, however, find it harder to wean it from its appetite for imposing steeper taxes on the moderately affluent.

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  • He also persuaded a young writer on his staff to take the course, in order to wean herself from various medications.

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  • For a Japanese chipmaker desperately seeking ways to wean itself from the depressed memory business, this videogame is of epic proportions.

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  • At that point, we will have no choice but to wean ourselves from a costly and strategically reckless dependency on such fuel.

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  • He knows Israel can now begin to wean itself from U.S. economic aid, especially if it is serious about liberalizing the economy.

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  • The new Pac-12 television-rights deal will nearly double Cal's broadcast revenue before expenses, helping the athletic department not only to make debt payments but also to wean itself from university support.

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  • Tobacco marketing was curbed to wean America from smoking.

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  • He predicted that global warming will occupy much of Obama's time once a health plan is passed and said the United States needs to wean itself from its dependence on imported oil.

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  • They also acknowledge that the industry will have to wean itself from the habit of using profits from bigger cars to subsidise smaller ones, and find a way to start building downsized vehicles that make money.

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  • Look for this pattern to continue in 2013 as China continues to wean itself from the U.S. dollar and to diversify its holdings to include a larger basket of currencies, as well as hard assets in Europe, the United States, South America and Africa.

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  • Hassan's second major goal is to wean the company from its reliance on Celebrex.

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  • It is correct to try and wean motorists away from their cars, and to finance much-needed improvements in public transport.

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  • The yuan's acceptance among investors would also require the kind of reform China needs to wean its economy from its investment-heavy, export-oriented growth model.

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  • The tenacious former Conservative leader also said he has had a stay in a psychiatric hospital in an attempt to wean himself away from alcohol.

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  • Icahn, the owner, wants to position the company into a positive cash flow position and attempt to wean it away from its addiction to debt financing.

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  • They hope he will engage with them, for example, in diplomatic rather than military methods to wean Iran away from the development of a nuclear weapons program.

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  • Regardless, I think the strategy here is to provide Chinese consumers with a new product intended to wean them away from foreign cars and make them more accepting of Chinese brands.

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  • 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.

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  • But that hasn't stopped Steorn from making some big claims over much of the past year: The invention could end global warming, wean the world economy from its dependence on oil from war-torn regions and power some of the world's poorest communities.

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  • They also pledged to wean the United States from a dependence on foreign oil.

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  • The government said in February that it would issue inflation-indexed bonds to wean away small investors from buying unproductive assets such as gold.

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  • Regardless of their environmental benefits, alternative energy supplies have not yet proved cheap or abundant enough to wean the rich countries from their oil addiction.

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  • These bonds are meant to wean away small investors from buying unproductive assets such as gold that have contributed to the country's record-high current account deficit.

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  • Specifically, it should incorporate concrete policy and programmatic initiatives that will enable the United States to wean its transportation sector from the present, irresponsible reliance on foreign oil.

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  • Pollution levels in the country have been rising alarmingly in recent years, and the government is seeking to wean the public away from its dependence on the car.

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  • At a Pioneer Institute event two years ago, Jonathan Gruber went as far as to say that the explicit purpose of the tax was meant to wean the country away from employer based insurance.

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