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...combination of carrot and stick measures has been responsible for the "success" of Singapore and the continued power of its ruling party. Since the government leaders are aggressive defenders of private enterprise and the free market system, and particularly anxious to integrate the nation into the world capitalist economy as a "global city" and regional headquarters for multinational corporations and foreign capital in Southeast Asia, most of the carrot has been offered to Western and some Asian businessmen, while the stick has been exclusively applied to the working class of Singapore...
...ticket holders. The $400,000-a-year center "has reaped extraordinary benefits from this system," said team officials in their own public statement. Portland Television Sportscaster Doug Lamear urged the Blazers to exchange one famous vegetarian for another by trading Walton "for Euell Gibbons and a six-pack of carrot juice." That just might be a good deal. Walton, who missed 47 of the Blazers' 82 games this season because of a foot injury, tore ligaments in his left ankle during a pickup basketball game last week and was reassigned to a cast for the offseason...
...educated female individuals of the Radcliffe elite are being offered a choice to get a little bit of each in the form of a merger with our patriarchal pals, Harvard. By following the dangling carrot of equal admissions and equalized financial aid, we would change Harvard into a more accurate reflection of the population just outside its walls, but that change guarantees only that we would more clearly perceive how closely our situation resembles that of all women. Equal admissions for undergraduates does not in any way insure that male Harvard professors and executives will cease to dictate to female...
...development of conventional, nuclear and fossil energy sources." He urged the consuming nations to join the U.S. in a consortium that over the next ten years would invest $500 billion in developing nuclear power, synthetic fuels and other energy alternatives. At the same time, he made a carrot-and-stick offer to the OPEC countries. The oil producers, said the Secretary, can "accept a significant price reduction now in return for stability over a longer period. Or they can run the risk of a dramatic break in prices when the program of alternative sources begins...
...detritus of profligacy, defiling the national landscape. The American penchant for littering is costly as well as unsightly; picking up the rubbish costs an estimated $1 billion per year. But the mess can be cleaned up, as Washington and Oregon are showing in different ways. One state uses the carrot, the other the stick. Both have been successful...