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.
Over half felt that their leadership attempted to be motivational a carrot and stick approach to getting tasks done.
But is there any other carrot or stick that the U.S. has available?
Indeed, Iran's carrot and stick approach to powers like the US and France form a fourth circle of ties.
Every carrot and stick Washington waves derives via citizens residing in these states.
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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.
There is also no indication that negotiation and incentives can influence Cuba, which has ignored such "carrot and stick" approaches in the past.
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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.
With a mixture of carrot and stick, Pakistan appears to averted, at least for now, a politically embarrassing rift within Hizbul, followed probably by clashes between Hizbul and hardline, Pakistani-dominated factions.
Cruise could use taxes as a carrot or stick.
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And so, if -- why -- I mean, why not use a carrot and stick approach if we were so concerned about the democratic -- the lack of democratic reform in Egypt?
The exploratory visit came after Secretary of State Hillary Clinton announced in September that America would move away from the Bush administration's tough-talk strategy to one that appears more carrot and stick.
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One senior diplomat says it would be wrong to wrest the carrot and stick away from the commission, which has both political independence and the trust of EU members unlike the Bulgarian government.
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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But at the very least it will finally put the "stick" in the proverbial carrot-and-stick metaphor for taming Pyongyang.
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.
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