Diplomats and some lawyers here regard the changes as sometimes clumsy efforts to discourage dissent.

A local businessman said the second generation, eager to discourage dissent among their contemporaries, "seems to need to prove they're as tough as the old man."

"This institution does not discourage dissent," he said yesterday.

Our president, our deans and our department chairmen make so much money that they keep financial information secret and discourage any discussion or dissent.

"Community leaders, in the interest of the group, try to discourage dissent."

All but about 33 of the 211 members of the Legislature receive these "leadership" stipends, a policy that certainly discourages dissent and independence.

It surprises me to see a Big Name economics journalist like Krugman following this trend, and, further, using it to discourage dissent within the profession.

He uses his conspicuous access to American leaders to further discourage dissent.

Ted Grant made a decision to join the fused group but was purged by Healy who strongly discouraged dissent.

The government discouraged political dissent, however, and on occasion repressed it violently.