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Instrument of God. Desai rises each morning at 3 or 4 to pray, work at his spinning wheel and practice yoga until about 7. He eats only uncooked food-milk, fruit, cheese, carrot juice-and disdains even cereals. He also rejects alcohol, tobacco and modern medicine, and looks and acts at least 20 years younger than his 81 years. He swore off sex in his early 30s as a way of achieving self-control. In principle he favors national prohibition and regards self-control as the best means of achieving family planning-although, he quickly adds, he realizes that "governments...
...Gandhi] paid the price only because of this-old men have been vasectomized, unmarried people have been vasectomized, young boys have been vasectomized. [The election result] is a revolt against all that. We would not have won otherwise. I agree with incentives because I believe both in the carrot and the rod. But the rod must be very rare, and the carrot must also not make people greedy. It must only be an incentive...
...voteless pay raise was part of a carrot-and-stick deal carefully engineered by House Speaker Tip O'Neill. With justification-the Peterson Commission cited the need for such raises early this year-he figured that members of Congress deserved their first significant salary increase since 1969 to try to catch up with inflation. But he was convinced the raise would have been voted down if each legislator had been forced to take a public stand on it. So O'Neill pledged to link the pay raise with something he felt Congress needed even more: a code...
Many appraised the appointment positively. Says one former U.N. official: "Moynihan was the stick, Scranton was the carrot, and now Young can reap the benefits by innovating." According to a black diplomat, Young "could go far in changing the 'atmospherics,' and that is important since many U.N. issues are more symbolic than real...
...Skinner, a stick and a carrot...