Word: consent
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Rallying public opinion behind the anti-underpass cause is an exercise in what Bernays refers to as "the engineering of consent." In order to do this successfully in a democracy, Bernays explains, one must view society as a sociologist views...
...Cleared, 6 to 4 in the House Rules Committee, a Senate-passed proposed constitutional amendment to permit the Vice President to take over temporarily as Acting President during a period of presidential "inability," with the consent of the Cabinet and a two-thirds majority of Congress...
...Alfred Schaefer, 60, chief of the Union Bank of Switzerland, and by common consent that nation's foremost commercial banker, was protesting the notoriety thrust upon Swiss banks by the recent troubles of Britain's pound. Long the world's favorite haven for nervous money, Swiss banks have amassed so much of it (fully one-fifth of their $16.6 billion in deposits comes from foreigners) that when their international clientele decided to lighten its sterling holdings, the banks became heavily though unhappily involved in the run on the pound. The Swiss themselves contributed $80 million...
...Corporation consists of the five Fellows of the College, the President and the Treasurer. It acts as a body in determining the policies and day-to-day business of the University, though its major decisions require the consent of the 30-man Board of Overseers...
...court does, however, accept some amicus briefs without the litigants' consent. Last week's liberal Catholic brief requested court approval, for example, because Connecticut withheld consent...