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What Incentives? In short, Cripps's program offers to British workers no immediate prospect but more sweat, and to British housewives only more tears of frustration over shortages. If Cripps could dangle before British workers no carrot in the form of more food and consumer goods, what incentives would they have to greater effort? Cripps last month said: "It has never yet been worked out how far a donkey will walk after a carrot permanently held beyond its reach, but there must be a limit to that form of stimulation." Cripps believes in a higher incentive "[We can succeed...
...three singers who had just taken their bows had to carry part of the Hansel and Gretel scenery offstage with them when the curtain went down. A carrot-haired electrician in costume flipped a few switches, then hurried onstage again. The ticket-seller looked like-and was-the girl who had sung Zerlina in Don Giovanni. It was homemade "Lemonade Opera," and though the singing and acting were occasionally weak and sugary, Manhattan was gulping it down...
...Carrot & Stick. "Our new policy, in truth, is a policy of maximum and minimum objectives. Now that they are confronted with an accomplished fact, the Soviets are giving evidences of sore temptation to join with us and the British on terms we can agree to. This is natural, for we have both a carrot and a stick to move them. The carrot is reparations, desperately needed to supplement the war-damaged Soviet economy. The stick is the Ruhr, the greatest industrial area in Europe, which the Kremlin policy-makers deeply fear to see under the complete control of the Western...
Crespi's Carrot...
...become $15,000-a-year college presidents, then no donkey need suffer an inferiority complex. I've met a few college presidents in my day; and all those who were, or ever could be, $50,000-a-year businessmen, you could list on the end of a carrot-the small...