1. Sarah J. Freeman and K.S. Cameron, ?Organizational Downsizing: A Convergence and Reorientation Framework,? Organization Science, 1993 (4), 10?29.
2. J.A. Simpson and E.S.C. Weiner, Editors, The Oxford English Dictionary. Second Edition (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1989).
3. Clyde Haberman, ?Help Wanted for Seniors.? The New York Times, 1996 (March 19).
4. The passage of a Welfare ?Reform? Bill in July, 1996, suggests that we are likely to witness massive downsizing ? although this specific term may not be applied ? of the welfare rolls in the years ahead (See Peter T. Kilborn and Sam Howe Verhovek, ?Clinton's Welfare Shift Reflects New Democrat,? The New York Times, 1996 (August 23) A1). Many parties have already denounced this legislation as effectively a ?criminal? act, in the humanistic sense; beyond the justly feared intense suffering likely to be experienced by children, the infirm, and many other vulnerable constituencies, the potential for large costs in terms of enhanced social instability, conflict, and the incidence of conventional crime is real.
5. Robert J. Samuelson, The Good Life and Its Discontents ? The American Dream in the Age of Entitlement, 1945?1995, (New York: Time Books, 1995).