Word: exitement
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...HIRSCHMANN'S Exit Voice and Loyalty examines two ways of encouraging and circumventing dissent by artificially controlling the options available to dissidents. The Princeton social scientist argues that a system reinforces loyalties to itself and encourages dissenters to become reformers by limiting the means of exit available to its clients. Conversely, if the exit option is encouraged and reform stifled, dissidents leave the system to those who either do not care or cannot escape. Hirschmann's latter paradigm explains why public education in Boston has been so abysmal over the past 30 years. A leading force of innovation in national...
...Exit: Tom Sanders, Joe Beaulieu, Baaron Pittenger...
...Exit, then re-enter: Robert Watson, Jim Curry...
Carter insists that Lance be permitted to exit in his own way. The President's embattled friend has demanded a chance to defend himself fully against charges of misusing his top positions at two Georgia banks to enhance his free-spending lifestyle and embark on a political career. Lance should get that opportunity this week in a session with the Senate's Governmental Affairs Committee, which approved his elevation to OMB director last January, ringingly re-endorsed him only seven weeks ago and now seems to feel it was misled. But no matter how forcefully and shrewdly Lance defends...
...well. Hollis McLaren is winsomely demented. When Actor Russell puts on his show, the masquerades are expert and funny enough to let straights see the bent world in a way that will not threaten most of them. Normal householders walk out of the theater snuffling happily after his exit line. Liza, who has fled to Manhattan following the stillbirth, is acting like a zombie. She says she is dead in side. "You are not dead!" says Robin, as the music rises. "You're alive and sick and living in New York just like 8 million others." The little splashes...