• 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.

    FORBES: Ecuador: Correa's Play for Greater Influence in the Oil Sector

  • 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.

    CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Norman Podhoretz receives the Center's Mightier Pen Award

  • 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.

    BBC: York refuses Pickles' gift horse and puts up tax bills

  • 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.

    CNN: Behind the red carpet at Cannes

  • The Obama administration and Congress established a carrot and stick approach to moving doctors and hospitals into the 21st Century of a paperless society.

    FORBES: Less Than Two Percent of Hospitals Are Paperless As Medicare Penalties Loom

  • In Spain, the pilots are getting less carrot and more stick, wielded by the expert hands of Xabier de Irala, Iberia's chairman.

    ECONOMIST: European airlines

  • 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.

    CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Norman Podhoretz receives the Center's Mightier Pen Award

  • It prefers to stress the help it would give to the jobless in finding them work they would want to have, rather than the cost savings, and to emphasise the carrot in its workfare scheme, not the stick.

    ECONOMIST: Working for your welfare

  • Richardson, reelected with 69% of the vote, says he aims to reduce the share of his state's population that is without health insurance by using the carrot-and-stick approach Massachusetts took this year under Romney.

    FORBES: Watch the States

  • There are only two: the carrot and the stick.

    NEWYORKER: Broken Record

  • Along with the stick, the states used a carrot: In 2002 they formed the Streamlined Sales and Use Tax Agreement (SSUTA) to make it easier for merchants to collect taxes for all 9, 600 U.S. sales tax jurisdictions.

    FORBES: While Congress Debates, Internet Shoppers Cough Up Sales Tax

  • The solution must be a carrot-and-stick approach.

    ECONOMIST: Cleaning up dirty money

  • Like MP3.com (MPPP), Napster could be molded, with a skinny carrot and large legal stick, to suit the labels' needs.

    CNN: Napster takes the defensive

  • After years of carrot-and-stick games with trade terms, the US has finally granted China permanent status as a normal trading partner.

    BBC: US normalises trade with China

  • Such a plan also gives parents an unobtrusive way to check on their student's academic progress throughout the year--and a carrot is more effective than a stick when urging better performance.

    FORBES: College Debts

  • Further insurance to ensure that greenhouse gas reductions from biofuels are significant can come from giving incentives ("the carrot") to developing countries to reduce deforestation and providing a stick of banning biofuel (and maybe all agricultural exports) from countries that don't meet deforestation reduction targets.

    FORBES: Khosla Speaks

  • 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.

    WSJ: Extreme Cheeseheads Choke It Down

  • Along with that carrot, the states are hoping for a stick: authority from Congress to force catalog and Internet merchants without physical presence in their states to sign up to collect simplified taxes.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

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