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...Carrot. Cyrus Eaton Jr., son of the U.S. industrialist who has long championed trade with the East, has opened a Cleveland-based company called Tower International to help arrange and finance deals between the U.S. and Iron Curtain countries, has already signed up as a sales agent for Hungary. The U.S. now favors such deals instead of frowning upon them, hoping to use U.S. trade as a carrot to lure the satellites closer to the West...
Nevertheless, the government firmly intends to maintain its ceilings, is adding a carrot to match its stick. If restaurateurs hold the line, their taxes-which of course they only pay sporadically anyway-maybe scaled down from the present 8.5% of gross turnover to the 4.25% enjoyed by less artistic businesses...
...years and providing an incentive to work hard. It is doubtful, however, whether the members of English 98 take much pride in the fact that some of their fellow tutees are not receiving credit and that others are out of the running for honors. And even if dangling a carrot were a respectable means of encouraging scholarly achievement, what the English Department is dangling looks more like the Sword of Damocles. Rather than encouraging the sophomore to try harder, the English Department's requirements are more likely to deter him from taking any difficult couses...
Sunshine & Smiles. What Makarios was really trying to feed the Turkish Cypriots last week was a carrot, in hopeful contrast to the stick he had been applying to them for weeks. His bullying efforts to force the Turkish minority to lay down its arms and accept Greek Cypriot rule had failed, even boomeranged against him in the form of Turkey's threat to invade. Now, suddenly, the wily prelate was all sunshine and smiles. He got along famously with the new U.N. mediator, Ecuador's ex-President Galo Plaza, replacing the late Sakari Tuomioja of Finland, who died...
Probably the most important recommendations of the Gen Ed Committee, however, are its proposals to strengthen the hand of the Gen Ed Committee in its battle to staff its courses. Whether or not its recommendations will succeed, if they are adopted, is an open question, but they combine the carrot of sabbaticals and the stick of quotas into a system of persuasion and coercion more extensive than anything yet tried. It is questionable, however, how they will offset the idea in the minds of junior Faculty members that their promotion will depend more upon their work in their departments then...