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...costly program, provided it is ever enacted by Congress, will accelerate the trends by stimulating investment and spurring technological breakthroughs. Says Economist Arthur Okun: "If there is an Edwin [Polaroid] Land or a Hewlett or a Packard in the country with a bright idea for energy production, a big carrot is being held...
...Government urged states to allow heavier loads so that the truckers can make more money. Vice President Walter Mondale made a plea to the strikers to "get this country moving again." Scoffed Mike Parkhurst, president of the ITA: "Tomorrow the ice is going to trot out another little carrot on the end of a stick. It will still be unacceptable...
...ideal, of course, is a news staff totally motivated by their editor's enthusiasm and energy--the Spark-Plug syndrome rather than the Times' Carrot-and-Stick or the Post's Survival-of-the-Fittest. Don Forst is quick with his stick--he fired the Herald's Sunday magazine editor not long ago when the guy chose to spend a weekend with his family rather than fly down to the magazine's printers in Kentucky with a last-minute editorial change. But Forst's approach to Hartnett suggests a Champion Spark Plug in the making. According to Dave O'Brian...
...hoped that the Fund would not only accomplish the two goals listed above, but would have a diversionary effect on contributions made to the larger Harvard Gift Fund in the long-run. When paired with a possible boycott of the remainder of the Fund. Harvard students could use a carrot-and-stick strategy in dealing with the Corporation and its investment policy. If the Harvard Corporation continued its investment policy with firms with subsidiaries in South Africa, seniors and alumni could support the Biko Fund and boycott the remainder of the Gift Fund. If the Harvard Corporation adopted a more...
What this meant in the long-run was that the carrot-and-stick approach would be taken away from Harvard students if they supported the Biko Fund. Moreover, the Fund might be then used to detract from the real target of student concern on the South Africa issue: the Corporation's investment policy. Weighing this result against the very limited symbolic significance of the Biko Fund, it became clear that the political costs of keeping the Fund would far outweigh its benefits...