Word: carrot
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Instrument of God. Desai rises each morning at 3 or 4 to pray, work at his spinning wheel and practice yoga until about 7. He eats only uncooked food-milk, fruit, cheese, carrot juice-and disdains even cereals. He also rejects alcohol, tobacco and modern medicine, and looks and acts at least 20 years younger than his 81 years. He swore off sex in his early 30s as a way of achieving self-control. In principle he favors national prohibition and regards self-control as the best means of achieving family planning-although, he quickly adds, he realizes that "governments...
...voteless pay raise was part of a carrot-and-stick deal carefully engineered by House Speaker Tip O'Neill. With justification-the Peterson Commission cited the need for such raises early this year-he figured that members of Congress deserved their first significant salary increase since 1969 to try to catch up with inflation. But he was convinced the raise would have been voted down if each legislator had been forced to take a public stand on it. So O'Neill pledged to link the pay raise with something he felt Congress needed even more: a code...
Many appraised the appointment positively. Says one former U.N. official: "Moynihan was the stick, Scranton was the carrot, and now Young can reap the benefits by innovating." According to a black diplomat, Young "could go far in changing the 'atmospherics,' and that is important since many U.N. issues are more symbolic than real...
...Skinner, a stick and a carrot...
Despite such problems, supporters of the new markets are growing like corn in Kansas. Politicians hail the farm stalls as excellent campaign grounds. In Syracuse, a city-zoo employee collects the market's discarded carrot tops and wilted lettuce leaves for the animals...