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...accord, and customers may reward them for it. Other companies will need encouragement - like the system in place in Japan, where the ambitious levels of efficiency achieved by industry leaders are used to force the bottom of the table to catch up. For his part, Shapiro prefers "the carrot to the stick," pointing out that energy efficiency has been increasing, even without strong mandatory standards. But as our dependence on consumer electronics grows, we can't afford to let the industry fall behind. "If everyone comes together, you can build a robust infrastructure for efficiency and lower costs," says Arbogast...
...Japan's consumer markets. During the 1970s, there were similar runs on black tea fungus, oolong tea and konnyaku; during the 1980s it was baby formula, banana and boiled egg; then, in the '90s, came apple, nata de coco, cocoa and chili pepper; and during this decade black vinegar, carrot juice, soy milk, beer yeast and toasted soybean flour (kinako). Last year's fermented soybean (natto) diet emptied supermarket shelves. Based on experience, Horiuchi predicts that the banana boom will last only another month or so. "In the past, there were all kinds of hit diets. But they never last...
...market can be made more ethical. "I think classic rabbinic tradition is certainly pro-regulatory," he says. Meanwhile, Yeshiva's Levine calls in his journal article for what he describes as "an incentive structure in the workplace that would dissuade people from wrongdoing." He gets quite specific, imagining a "carrot and stick" arrangement. One stick would be an expansion of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, which mandated greater accountability for CEOs of publicly-owned companies, among other things...
...says Hourcade, is that in order to keep the capacity to build nuclear weapons out of Iran's hands, the West is offering Tehran incentives to forego certain activities - such as uranium enrichment - that it is legally allowed to pursue under the Non-Proliferation Treaty. "The flaw with the carrot and stick approach is that Iran's leaders - backed by wide consensus in Iranian society - view as a sovereign right the development of a civil nuclear program as they see fit, meaning any carrots designed as a swap for that are regarded as illegitimate as the disuasive sticks," Hourcade says...
...more fruits, whole grains and veggies into these diets," she says. That's not a suggestion adults always follow, never mind kids, but Nestle says parents should take the lead for all teens. She suggests they tweak their kids' diets by encouraging them to add fruit to their cereal, carrot sticks to their snacks and lettuce and tomatoes to their sandwiches...