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...this week, as dining hall officials audit the amount of food wasted and post the results on bright orange carrot-shaped charts, dining hall managers and students are finding out what those enormous mounds really mean...

Author: By Carrie L. Zinaman, | Title: Dining Service Audits Food Waste | 12/10/1993 | See Source »

...color of the carrot, we're right up there with the rest of them," he said...

Author: By Carrie L. Zinaman, | Title: Dining Service Audits Food Waste | 12/10/1993 | See Source »

Columnist William Safire recently character-ized American foreign policy as a variant of the carrot-and-stick game: the promise of reward combined with the threat of punishment. The problem, he believes, is that of too much carrot and too little stick...

Author: By Timothy P. Yu, | Title: Clinton's Reluctant Donkey | 12/3/1993 | See Source »

This is certainly true. But in fact, the U.S. does not even possess such instruments of motivation. In fact, countries such as China and North Korea are wielding the carrot and stick with such skill that we cannot perceive...

Author: By Timothy P. Yu, | Title: Clinton's Reluctant Donkey | 12/3/1993 | See Source »

...Chinese have beaten the U.S. at its own game by needing America less than America needs China. For the Chinese government, free trade is both carrot and stick, drawing the U.S. in and chaining American pocketbooks to Chinese interests. The North Koreans have done just as well by simply refusing to play by the economic rules; while the U.S. can offer nothing to them, the North Koreans wield a nuclear stick that the U.S. must respect...

Author: By Timothy P. Yu, | Title: Clinton's Reluctant Donkey | 12/3/1993 | See Source »

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