Word: carrot
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...disclaimer is in order here. I don't believe that simply scrapping rent control would solve the housing crisis. Free-marketeers don't recognize that the people who get left out of the housing market face a fate worse than those who bid too low in the Ec 10 carrot market. They end up sleeping on grates...
...reel off a long list of grievous problems confronting the planet -- from acid rain and global warming to the destruction of tropical rain forests. The hard part is getting people to do something about them. Last week two fresh ideas for encouraging environmental activism were proposed, one a carrot, the other a stick...
...carrot is an annual $360,000 cash award -- the largest environmental prize ever -- to be split among six "grassroots heroes," each from a different region of the world. Made possible by San Francisco's Goldman Environmental Foundation, the award will recognize "important efforts to preserve or enhance the environment," from protecting endangered species to combatting pollution. The idea is to give conservationists the kind of recognition and prestige afforded to Nobel laureates. Says Richard Goldman, president of the foundation and a longtime environmental crusader: "We're trying to find people who can inspire others, people who make a difference...
Bush's emerging arms-control strategy is designed to offer both a carrot and a stick to the West Germans. The carrot is a quicker start to missile- reduction talks, even though the U.S. will continue to insist on keeping some short-range nukes as an essential deterrent to Soviet attack. The stick is a threat to pull out even more U.S. troops from West Germany, which Kohl opposes. "What we have to do," says a State Department official, "is show the Germans that we have ideas for getting a conventional-arms agreement fairly quickly, so they could then...
Congress is considering ways to help, at least for the most technical jobs. During hearings, Georgia's Senator Sam Nunn told Watkins he might consider a waiver that would permit some Energy Department employees to be released from Government pay caps. "We need some carrot to get good people into Government," said Nunn. "Till now all we've been showing is the stick...