Sean Reilly, of the Louisiana Recovery Authority, said last month that some residents would get an offer of money to relocate: a carrot, as well as a stick.
But Mr Stupak's amendment is only one reason why many Democrats in the Senate see the House bill less as a baton to be carried to the finishing line than as a fizzing stick of dynamite.
This probably helps them to work out from which direction the vibrations are travelling rather as a person might stick a finger first in one ear and then in the other to work out the direction that a sound is coming from.
Rather than lightly hinting at a dollar fix, Paulson should recognize that the dollar is utterly insignificant except as a measuring stick that facilitates the wealth-enhancing exchange of goods.
Thirty-thousand dollars today is peanuts - who could live on that and how can that monetary figure be used as a career measuring stick anyway?
Cruise could use taxes as a carrot or stick.
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The origins of the pencil date to the ancient Romans, who used to write with a device known as a stylus--a metal stick, usually lead, which was used to scratch words onto papyrus.
While the deal was first reported as London wielding a stick over the heads of intransigent Stormont ministers, it wasn't long before the Northern Ireland Office clarified that what they had in mind was more of a carrot, providing extra support to the Executive.
It's not a straightforward process, and you'll need a card reader or a PC that's equipped to handle a Sony Memory Stick (as opposed to a normal USB drive).
Of coarse, you will have to put the weenies on a stick as long as a football field to get close enough to roast them without being roasted yourself.
But at least it has now become as much a point of honour in Salzburg to show that one is not a stick-in-the-mud, as it used to be a mark of prestige to get hold of a first-night ticket at all.
Callahan provided a gutty effort in the second after his stick broke as he blocked a shot.
So imagine the surprise of the man (a friend of a Reddit user known as CappnPoopDeck) when the stick he peed on showed a positive symbol.
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This has been characterised in some quarters as the British government waving a stick at Stormont, prompting both Sinn Fein and the DUP to hit back angrily at the Northern Ireland Office.
It is, as I said on Newsnight last night, like pass the parcel with a stick of financial Semtex: Greece as the detonator, Italy as the explosive mass.
Or, we can save it as a "Plug-in, " which will let us stick a command conveniently in the Script menu.
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It could be a virus on a USB stick, as the Stuxnet worm showed, though it went in the other direction.
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Nutrisystem is singled out as a particularly easy-to-stick-to plan.
It is not just a matter of having a more media-rich environment in which advertising does not stick out as much, it is also a matter of appealing to the kinds of users who do the most to spread messages, advertising or otherwise.
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No other compact economy car outside of a Mini Cooper offers as much stick-and-rudder fun as the 3: The steering (hydraulic, with an electric pump) is tack-sharp and precise, with almost no torque steer and a gratifying heft that gathers as you turn the wheel.
Now, it doesn't stick as good as a climbing foot or a shoe, a human foot would, but I think, you know, in that respect, my calves don't get tired on that side and I - my wife says it's completely aid climbing, which she says it's cheating.
The whole device, together with a second electrode (known as a reference) to complete the circuit, is then mounted on a stick.
Nolfi and the cinematographer, John Toll, have produced a sombrely unified vision of New York as a place of dull skies and frequent downpours, a city whose towers stick up like hostile gray stalagmites.
She also talks grandly of a strong parliament, one that will stick its hands into matters such as Balkan reconstruction and a common European foreign policy.
As a result, professional gamblers should probably stick to the games where math and skill still reign supreme over chance, like poker.
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If our business fails to do this, we will always be fighting a losing battle as we run from stick to stick trying to spin the plates before they fall.
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Trying to predict this race is very difficult - you might as well close your eyes and stick a pin on any one of Melandri, Capirossi, Rossi, Hayden or Pedrosa.
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When Vick's property in Virginia was raided, 54 pit bull terriers were found, some with apparent dog fighting injuries, as well as training equipment like a treadmill and a stick used to pry open dogs' jaws.
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