Word: carrot
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Puerto Rico, Ford will be using a carrot and stick. The carrot will be the promise of the sort of support that led the U.S. to make available $2 billion of the $5.3 billion line of credit extended to Britain this month to help prop up the sagging pound, which has so far been successful. The stick will be the clear understanding that such financial support will be forthcoming for governments only on condition that they act swiftly to put their domestic economic houses in order...
...days. Another manufacturer, William Crookston of Los Angeles, is pinning his own hopes on producing buttons for fast food chains to distribute to youthful customers. Future generations may well ponder what turned the nation from preserving expressions like TIPPECANOE AND TYLER TOO to BUY ME-I'M A CARROT CAKE...
Pipes said that the Soviet Union is moving toward a harder line vis-a-vis the U.S. "The carrot and the stick has been knocked out of the hands of the U.S., leading to a more brazen Russian expansion throughout the world," he added...
...long can a man or woman live for a carrot alone...
...uncle, Leo Kohn, was one of Speer's "employees." For picking up a carrot to ease his hunger, he did not get one week of solitary confinement but was beaten to death with a shovel...