Word: carrot
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Jarry Park had its moments, too. Rusty Staub--dubbed "Le Grand Orange" by Francophones who adored his carrot-colored hair--provided patient fans with at least a few thrills. Gene Mauch, the greatest manager never to win a pennant, gave the baseball intelligentsia strategic gems to discuss in bistros...
...Third World, it will be virtually impossible to resurrect détente. In the meantime, one task for America is to correct any dangerous gaps that have developed in the Soviet-American military relationship. Another task is to face the Soviets with political firmness and sophistication. That means eventually resuming carrot-and-stick diplomacy?with an effective stick, to be sure, but also with the restoration of those carrots that the Soviets complain have been thrown away. Only thus can the superpowers reverse the vicious cycle of retribution and recrimination that is driving them toward more and worse confrontations. The suspense...
...adds that he does not feel "comfortable" with the military options and believes the side effects entail "pretty high risks." Though he has no exact formula as yet, the Senator from Maine would like to offer Iran some incentives to surrender the hostages-what he calls "a carrot as well as a stick...
Some political experts predicted that the Soviets would take a carrot-and-stick approach to the allies, combining promises of new mutual benefits that would follow from a continuation of détente with warnings of what might befall the allies if they pursue Washington's "hostile" course. In a number of Western capitals, in fact, Soviet diplomats were privately promoting possible peace talks between Afghanistan and its immediate neighbors, Pakistan and Iran, and the possible creation of a "security zone" for the Indian Ocean and Persian Gulf...
...however, it has been mostly stick and very little carrot. Gromyko's tough stance in his private talks was preceded by a harsh public speech in Paris by the Soviet Ambassador to France, Stepan Chervonenko. In justifying Moscow's action in Afghanistan, first of all, Chervonenko seemed to extend the common interpretation of the Brezhnev Doctrine-namely, the Soviets' right to intervene in Eastern Europe-to a pro-Soviet regime anywhere. A friendly country, Chervonenko argued, "has the full right to choose its allies and, if it becomes necessary, to be helped in repelling the threat...