Word: carrot
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...There can be and should be no linkage" between SALT and other in- ternational issues. Warnke said. "It should not be used as either a carrot or a stick" to try to induce the Soviets to act as we would like' towards "Africa, covert agents, or internal dissidents," he added...
...Trade. The Carter Administration attempted to use trade to pressure the U.S.S.R. But you have to stop using trade as a lever?or a carrot. Trade has to be a normal part of relations. In fact, there is no way to pressure us economically because the Soviet Union has a strong economy...
...work. The Washington Post editorialized this week that the raids were probably necessary for Ian Smith to persuade his constituency that he would not bargain from a position of weakness. The Post lauded the pragmatists currently in control of the U.S. foreign policy establishment who are using "the carrot, rather than the stick" in relations with South Africa. Going on to proclaim that such friendly relations are the best hope for a peaceful solution in southern Africa -- in Rhodesia pushing Smith's government to the negotiating table with leaders of the Popular Front guerrillas, in Namibia procuring South Africa...
...kind of reverse psychology," he said, but if you try too hard for the dangling carrot out in front of you, all you do is spend your energy too fast too soon; and when it comes time to get the carrot, you can't do it. You just gotta learn to have patience," he explained...
...controls are unworkable, and presidential jawboning too easy to defy, and balancing the budget takes too long, and tight money threatens recession, what is left to fight inflation? The answer, Washington officials are reluctantly concluding, just might be to use income taxes as a stick to beat or a carrot to lure workers and companies into holding wages and prices down...