Word: carrot
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Meanwhile she lives in her new house in Malibu with her daughter, a young driver-helper, a maid, a fox terrier, a large mongrel and a deaf cat. She eats health foods ("Our whole society is built around the dining table," she complains over alfalfa sprouts and carrot juice) and spends a lot of time watching the tide-and her psyche. Starting with her breakthrough in B. & C. & T. & A., she recalls, "people kept saying, 'Wow! You're a star. You must really be happy,' and I kept asking myself, 'If it's so great...
...against it, despite denunciations from welfare groups. Nixon supporters feared that the bill would worsen the odds for passage of H.R. 1. John Byrnes, ranking Republican on the House Ways and Means Committee, voted for the bill but lamented that the Talmadge package "contains the stick, but not the carrot." With workfare pre-empted by the Talmadge legislation, the Administration loses its most powerful drawing card for conservative support of family assistance...
China-born Dr. Hsu, whose more conventional field is the study of chromosome behavior, concedes that this notion is still close to science fiction. But he can point out that a complete carrot plant has indeed been grown from a single carrot cell. At any rate, other scientists are becoming interested; some have even risked life and limb to contribute to his frozen...
Tart Replies. Withdrawing ground troops is the carrot; air attacks are the stick. "Air power, of course, will continue to be used," the President said. "We will continue to use it in support of the South Vietnamese until there is a negotiated settlement or, looking farther down the road, until the South Vietnamese have developed the capability to handle the situation themselves." As U.S. ground forces are cut back, he added, air strikes against enemy infiltration routes are essential to protect both South Vietnamese forces and the remaining Americans. Should infiltration increase, he warned, "we will have to not only...
...carrot-whip option of the site of confinement ranks second only to the leverage provided by the indeterminate sentence as a customarily effective weapon at the disposal of the California penal officials. They can punish the prisoner with whom they are dissatisfied or by whom they are threatened by sending him to San Quentin or Folsom, the maximum security joint. On the other hand, it is also in their power to reward a con by transferring him to Chino or one of the other minimum security prisons-without-walls located in the southern part of the state. Moreover, the authorities...