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...known by the acronym TIP, for tax-based incomes policy. Both call for a system of federally set guideposts,* and would use federal taxes as a means of discouraging large wage settlements. The main difference between the two plans is that one would employ a stick, the other a carrot...
...plan that offers a tempting carrot was conceived by Arthur Okun, a Brookings Institution senior fellow and a member of TIME'S Board of Economists. In April. Brookings will hold a two-day closed-door seminar of economists to debate the Okun proposal; an open meeting of business and labor leaders is planned for midyear. Participation in his plan would be voluntary, but companies that held wage increases to 6% or less and price increases to 4% or less would be granted a 5% rebate on their federal income taxes. As an inducement for their cooperation, employees in such firms...
...Henry Blanton's Texas, abuse and affection are two sides of the same paternalism that cowboys and their rancher bosses have always traded in. It is the style the world got a look at in the carrot-and-stick politics of Lyndon B. Johnson. Henry Blanton is an alias for the 40-year-old cowpuncher whom Kramer selected to sit for her portrait of yet another vanishing American. Although he is foreman on a 90,000-acre Panhandle ranch, Blanton is entering his middle age with a hatful of failed promise and a headful of bourbon. "He moved." writes...
Something of a health-food crank, the Prime Minister thrives on a regimen that includes daily doses of carrot or apple juice, milk, yogurt, honey, fresh fruit, nuts and dates, and five cloves of raw garlic. And one thing more: he drinks his own urine...
...attorney's eye on hospital records to detect abuses and outright fraud. Records will also be screened to determine such things as whether the medical treatment given was necessary and whether the patient was kept in bed longer than required-a common device for upping hospital bills. The carrot-and-stick part of the program involves trying to persuade hospitals to draw up accurate budgets a year in advance and then to abide by them. Blue Cross will pay the agreed sum. If a hospital's expenditures exceed budget, its management will be stuck with...