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...controls are unworkable, and presidential jawboning too easy to defy, and balancing the budget takes too long, and tight money threatens recession, what is left to fight inflation? The answer, Washington officials are reluctantly concluding, just might be to use income taxes as a stick to beat or a carrot to lure workers and companies into holding wages and prices down...
Okun puts the chance of an approaching downturn at 55% and urges that carrot-and-stick income tax policies be adopted to encourage labor and management to hold down wage and price raises. Unions and companies that settled for low increases would pay reduced taxes, while those that helped aggravate inflation would suffer tax penalties. Such an approach has been used successfully in Britain, where in the past year and a half inflation has plunged from some 20% to about 8%. But with the Administration's entire tax policy tangled up in Congress, Okun admits that his proposal...
...homosexual. There are also extranuclear families-communes, and open households- whose relationships and attitudes often seem like exotic and short-lived particles created in cyclotrons. A band in Texas "went up in a blaze of sexual hyperactivity and recrimination after about a year." A group organized around devotion to carrot-bulgur-lecithin surprise cake unglued when Frito crumbs were discovered in their beds. At an ashram, Howard is overdosed on the word "share" and honored by a guru who breathes up her nose. At a farm community she is told of a vegetarianism so strict that members wear no leather...
...Dream he will pursue his development is on course. He will modify the Dream as he grows and changes and learns about his life and himself, and he may even change one dream for another, but the mental picture in his head acts as a sort of psychological carrot. A mentor, an older man who helps the growing adult fit into his society and who aids his development in many ways, may become critical in the phase of Early Adulthood. Besides the obvious functions he serves--integrating the adult into his career, teaching him, giving him a role model, smoothing...
...kind of a reverse psychology, but if you try too hard for the dangling carrot in front of you, all you'll do is spend your energy too fast and when it comes time to get the carrot, you're not in the position to enjoy it or ever make the effort..." he sighed, dripping sweat on the turf, and looking around anxiously...