They can range in size from a lima bean to a carrot stick and have a rubbery consistency, causing a squeaking sensation on the teeth when chewed fresh from the factory.
This is a carrot and stick approach -- in which the carrot may be the lure of an exclusive interview, and the stick is the publicists' insistence that you should cover disturbing half-chair half-woman type films as a trade-off to gain access to the cast of a great one.
He has even enlisted a mentor at work to wield a carrot and stick.
But is there any other carrot or stick that the U.S. has available?
Taxation policy is then a carrot and stick approach to push things along.
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So when it comes to banishing the bags, it seems opinion is divided on whether a carrot or stick approach works best.
The Obama administration and Congress established a carrot and stick approach to moving doctors and hospitals into the 21st Century of a paperless society.
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Successive governments have tried both carrot and stick, to no avail.
It is a carrot and stick approach, with reduced duty for drivers using renewable fuels, and a challenging target for oil companies to increase the amount they sell.
Persuading more drivers to leave their car behind will require a shrewd mix of carrot and stick, such as high parking fees, free out-of-town parking and inner-city pedestrian areas.
Many other Yorkshire council leaders I spoke to in the run-up to the "budget season" told me they were reluctantly accepting the "carrot and stick" deal from the Communities Secretary.
Cruise could use taxes as a carrot or stick.
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But where nonmilitary means were concerned, Bush and his people were lagging behind a loss of faith in the carrot and stick approach that had been appearing within the American foreign policy establishment even before the publication of the new NIE.
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Now as one who has long since rejected the faith in diplomacy and sanctions, I never thought I would live to see the day when most members of the foreign policy establishment would come to admit that the carrot and stick approach would not and could not succeed in preventing Iran from getting the bomb.
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Diplomatic wiles (and her beloved cigarettes) apart, Ms Del Ponte also carries a carrot and a stick.
I'm still a Grinch, but I do prefer the carrot to the stick.
Maggi is trying to alleviate these concerns with a carrot and a stick.
But Mr. Norquist is always happier talking about the carrot than the stick.
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In Spain, the pilots are getting less carrot and more stick, wielded by the expert hands of Xabier de Irala, Iberia's chairman.
They have a carrot and a stick.
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Ultimately, it the difference between seeking the carrot or avoiding the stick, dressed up in psychological garb.
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Like MP3.com (MPPP), Napster could be molded, with a skinny carrot and large legal stick, to suit the labels' needs.
After years of carrot-and-stick games with trade terms, the US has finally granted China permanent status as a normal trading partner.
Policymakers have pushed mostly carrot-and-stick remedies: firing underperforming teachers, giving merit pay to high performers, penalizing schools with poor student test scores.
The Ecuadorean government will use expropriation and extended operating contracts as the stick and carrot to try to coerce foreign firms into signing service contracts.
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Such carrot-and-stick messaging resonates with publics that also distrust profligate governments.
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"This is the first time the focus has been on education and awareness and redirection to legal and authorized services and not on punitive measures or a carrot-and-stick approach, " she said.
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