Word: exitement
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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What can I say? Sleezy arguments, innuendos, inflated anecdotes--and legitimate complaints about abuses in preferential hiring and busing. Racial tensions had increased, I argued, because of scarce jobs and deteriorating schools for both black and white working class families. Our economy has always permitted blacks some exit from chronic unemployment in times of plenty, but it has found them easiest to fire when times are hard. If blacks refuse to bear the brunt of the current depression, they become scapegoats for white workers unwilling to share it. That keeps the heat off employers and the upper class. Take away...
Star Policy. Cynthia Gregory quitting dance? Rudolf Nureyev has called her America's prima ballerina assoluta. At 29, she is one of the most admired dancers of the present generation in the U.S.-or anywhere else. Inevitably, many dance enthusiasts wondered whether her sudden exit might be the beginning of a mass exodus that could cripple A.B.T...
...Syrian citizens. Men cannot leave until they have completed military service. Women must be at least 30 years old; before that, they are expected to hold down jobs in place of men in the military. About 50 categories of professionals and technicians, including doctors, lawyers and engineers, are denied exit visas lest they refuse to return home. Also forbidden to emigrate are Syria's 4,000 Jews, the remnant of a community that once numbered more than 25,000. Jews may work for the government, but they cannot hold senior jobs. They must have written permission to travel within...
...Soviets have also cracked down on Jews seeking to emigrate to Israel. While 3,000 Jews a month were allowed to leave the U.S.S.R. hi 1973, the number has gradually been reduced to an average of 1,000 a month this year. Those who apply for exit permits are subject to increasing harassment. An applicant can expect immediate discharge from his job, while facing a probable turndown or, at best, many months of delay before leaving. These people depend heavily on donations from relatives and friends abroad to survive. Gifts of money are already subject to an exorbitant...
...Nyet"was the answer to Andrei Sakharov, 54, after he applied for an exit visa to Norway to claim his 1975 Nobel...