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Stein, Howard F.
Euphemism, spin, and the crisis in organizational life / Howard F.
Stein : foreword by Seth Allcorn.
p. cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p.) and index.
ISBN 1-56720-124-5 (alk. paper)

1. Organizational behavior. 2. Industrial management--
Psychological aspects. 3. Reengineering (Management) 4. Downsizing
of organizations. 5. English language--Euphemism. I. Title.
HD58.7.S742 1998
158.7--dc21 97-48618

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Copyright © 1998 by Howard F. Stein

All rights reserved. No portion of this book may be
reproduced, by any process or technique, without the
express written consent of the publisher.

Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 97-48618
ISBN: 1-56720-124-5

First published in 1998

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The author and publisher gratefully acknowledge permission for use of the following
material:

Howard F. Stein, "Death Imagery and the Experience of Organizational Downsizing:
Or, Is Your Name on Schindler's List?" Administration and Society 29, no. 2 ( May
1997): 222-247. Reprinted by permission of Sage Publications, Inc., and Gary L. Wamsley
, Editor, Administration and Society.

Howard F. Stein, "Trauma Revisited: Mourning and the Unconscious in the Oklahoma
City Bombing." Journal for the Psychoanalysis of Culture and Society 2, no. 1 ( 1997):
17-37. Excerpts reprinted by permissioin of Mark Bracher, Editor, Journal for the Psy-
choanalysis of Culture and Society.

Excerpts from Nineteen Eighty-four by George Orwell, copyright © 1949 by Harcourt
Brace & Company and renewed 1977 by Sonia Brownell Orwell, reprinted by permis-
sion of the publisher; copyright © Mark Hamilton as the Literary Executor of the Es-
tate of the late Sonia Brownell Orwell, reprinted by permission of Martin Secker &
Warburg Ltd. and A M Heath & Co. Ltd.

Jan Edry, "Letter to the Editor," The Daily Oklahoman ( Oklahoma City), May 3, 1995,
page 6. Reprinted by permission of Jan Edry.

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