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Carter will need more than a carrot to rouse Congress to action...
...NUKES! he proclaimed with carrot sticks surrounded by mushrooms. He made solar power symbols out of lemon slices on Jell-O and hammers and sickles out of cheese rinds. He even constructed a nuclear power plant out of cottage cheese, tilted slightly to signify a meltdown...
Congress dangled a most attractive carrot before the eyes of gas producers when it passed the contentious and convoluted Natural Gas Policy Act late last year. Unfortunately, gas producers ate the carrot, and are now using the stick on U.S. consumers. The bill, which went into effect on Dec. 1, relaxed the ceiling on domestic natural gas prices, allowing them to rise closer to world market levels. Congress hoped that this would encourage producers to find more gas. Not so. In January and February, the number of wells drilled declined by 7% compared with the equivalent period a year...
Harris presents a mixed future for physical fitness: enthusiasm for exercise is on the rise, but a grumbling resistance to the trend is also digging in. The pollster offers a carrot of sorts to the anti-jogging, antisports crowd: the psychological benefits of exercise are so obvious, he asserts, that many troubled, chair-bound Americans may wish to take it up as a form of therapy...
...parslied carrot spears glistened appetizingly before my eyes. I was hard-put deciding between the baked bluefish almondine or roast leg of lamb as entree. Finally, to top it all off was a succulent slice of blueberry pie a la carte. The only thing lacking was a tart ten-year-old bottle of Chateauneuf-des-Papes...