Word: carrot
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Every day on the Freshman Union's salad bar, there are 120 pounds of salad greens, 60 pounds of the daily salad, 110 pounds of tomatoes, 50 pounds of cucumbers, 35 pounds of humus, 25 pounds of shredded cheese, 25 pounds of carrot sticks, 20 pounds of celery sticks, 14 pounds of chopped eggs, 12 pounds of tofu and seven pounds of spinach...
...Carrot...
House Chair of the Education Committee Rep. Nicholas A. Paleologos (D-Woburn), a co-sponsor of the amendment, sought the increase in EEO funding, saying the grants were the state's major "carrot" in enticing communities to improve their schools...
...Tehran, Iran's parliament voted to cut the Islamic Republic's relations with Britain if Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's government did not officially denounce Rushdie's novel. Britain responded with a carrot and a stick. Foreign Secretary Sir Geoffrey Howe told the BBC World Service that Britain understood why Muslims criticized the book and said it was "offensive" for comparing Britain to Nazi Germany. But he emphasized that nothing justified Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini's order to kill Rushdie...
...Steve Schneider (Henry Holt; 253 pages; $39.95). This comic valentine offers impeccable research, interviews with the animated geniuses who breathed life and laughter into their Looney Tunes, and hundreds of rare illustrations. Given the price of a single frame of original Warner Bros. art ($400 for Bugs and carrot), this is the season's biggest bargain...