Word: carrot
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...funny suit. So the Disney folks painstakingly trained the Pekins to accept the costumed canard as the next best thing to Mom. Last week Donald proudly led his faithful followers past squealing crowds of early-morning guests to a giant birthday cake decorated with peas, corn and carrot candles. Unfortunately, the web-footed wonders were too busy quacking up to go for the goodies...
...continuously" in this country for five years would be classified as permanent residents. This excludes individuals who spend more than 30 days outside the country--a likely situation for an undocumented worker with a family back home in Mexico. The bill's amnesty provision serves merely as a rotten carrot--one which probably won't be eaten...
...willing to take the risk of having Communism spread throughout Central America, and if not, how do they propose to stop it? That is not a question Democrats find easy to answer. Mondale and Hart have confined themselves largely to denouncing Reagan's policy; others talk vaguely of a "carrot and stick" approach (military pressure plus negotiations) toward Nicaragua, but are unable to define...
...knows she has learned from television; she rants and raves about the savagery of the Third World as she plans to boil her husband "like a lobster--lobsters don't feel pain." Guy Strauss as Mitch, the butt of most of these jokes, plays the vegetable (or lump, or carrot) brilliantly; when he begins to recover towards the end, his twitches and moans are appallingly funny...
Harvard's explanation for the size of the Lateness and Replacement Fees is that they are "incentives" not to be tardy or forgetful. Poppycock. Incentives make one act for a reward: they are the carrot. These fees are silly penalties: they are the stick...