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Such programs, and dozens of variations currently in use, are all based on the principle of behavior modification. Using the carrot-and-stick approach (solitary confinement v. improved treatment) or aversion therapy (the child molester associates his predilection for youngsters with discomfort for himself), the various approaches draw on B.F. Skinner's positive-and negative-reinforcement precepts and are characterized by close and expert attention to even the smallest details of behavior. The programs are all the rage-and outrage- in U.S. penology today...
...students also allowed the faculty to keep the "excellent" rank intact as a carrot to keep the competitive competing. The measures, of course, were passed by the faculty...
Shepherds and Eggs. Boucher's capacity for work was enormous. By 1770, the year of his death, he had by his own reckoning completed more than 1,000 paintings and some 10,000 drawings-ranging from elaborate pastels like the 1738 portrait of Boy Holding a Carrot (which some critics argue is actually a parsnip) to swift crayon jottings of the nude. Collectors snapped up both his drawings and his rapid oil sketches, such as the vigorous and almost romantic Mercury Confiding the Infant Bacchus to the Nymphs...
...curb on burgeoning demand and as an incentive to industry to expand its search for new sources of fuel needed to attain independence from the Arabs and other foreign oil suppliers. But, recognizing that this approach would bring huge profits to the oil industry, he would couple that carrot to a stick: high taxes on any profits over a certain level that were not plowed back into new exploration, new refinery construction or research and development...
...inequality alotted women in our society will improve. As a prime example of this, she cites the situation at Harvard and Radcliffe. "Radcliffe girls are a well-to-do, well-educated elite group of women. They are expected to be grateful because they're supposedly getting the same juicy 'carrot' as the men at Harvard. But these equal chances, equal opportunities, this ready acceptance--it's all an illusion and a lie. They're not nearly aware of the ways in which they're being taken. Harvard is an intensely patriarchal institution, in every way. I was a faculty wife...