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...white clapboard mansion on Lowell Street in Cambridge. Always a gathering place for diverse individuals, the Bernays home is like a laboratory for experimentation in the theory of democratic pluralism. Bernays and his "twenty-four hour a day companion in married life," the late Doris Fleischman, would summon at once "a union head, a colonel in the army, the editor of a left-to-center paper and an artist." "Conformity is a sin," according to Bernays, "even at parties...
...issue of the Atlantic Monthly, Stockman was quoted as saying some most indiscreet things about the Administration's entire approach to budget balancing and tax cutting. Suddenly, the architect of Reaganomics was in danger of being fired. And for the second time in two weeks, Reagan had to summon a top aide to the White House for a stern presidential scolding...
...company's first steps was to summon its group of outside advisers. They included: Bruce Wasserstein and Joseph Perella, investment bankers with First Boston Corp., a Wall Street firm; Joseph Flom, a lawyer with the New York firm Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom; and Richard Cheney, a public relations expert with New York's Hill & Knowlton, who directed the media campaign that helped McGraw-Hill block the attempt by American Express to take it over...
...nationwide customers are part of the still small, but explosively growing, new business of consumer data banks. For fees that can amount to as little as a few cents a month, the data banks are using computer technology and telephone lines to provide household subscribers with the opportunity to summon up-to-the-minute information on everything from the action on Wall Street to the best shopping bargains available from brand-name discount houses around the country...
...check the serial numbers on the bonds. The agents composed a memo pointing out that the IRS and the Department of Justice had failed to inform the Senate Watergate committee of their reports about Fitzsimmons' account of his alleged meeting with Nixon. If indicted, they threatened to summon high-ranking Justice officials to testify about what had-or had not-been done with that information...