Word: confab
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...groups. The biggest so far is the tax-relief coalition, led by Motley, which has more than 100 members and six task forces to handle policy, communications, vote counting, grass-roots lobbying, fund raising and recruitment of additional members. Its meeting last Thursday-convened four hours after the Boehner confab-was held in a G.O.P.-provided room in the West Front of the Capitol and featured an exhortation by Speaker Newt Gingrich...
...case, it was sudden. Only a year ago, Utah's young Governor, Mike Leavitt, conceived a grand confab for the fall of 1995 called the Conference of the States, to which he planned to invite his colleagues and state legislators. It was intended as a national forum on the skewed relationship between federal and state power. Most Governors considered a re-evaluation long overdue. Although the New Deal's assumption by the Federal Government of the U.S.'s primary responsibilities and powers may have been one of the century's noblest undertakings, at some point in the late 1960s...
...saysTIME correspondent Jay Branegan, in Casablanca. Branegan says the event amounts to a political blessing encouraging "the private sector to come in and consolidate the gains made in peace with investment, training and tourism." Whether it works won't be known for months or years, Branegan says, but the confab saw Israeli and Arab business representatives mingling for the first time. And, he says, it drew public acknowledgement from Israel's leaders that the Jewish state "cannot exist as an oasis of prosperity in a sea of Palestinian poverty...
Delegates at the United Nations Population Conference ended the confab by unanimously approving a 20-year plan to curb birth rates -- sort of. The lone dissenter, the Vatican's delegate, actually voted for the plan too, but Archbishop Renato Martino said he could not endorse parts of the plan that recognized "abortion as a dimension of population policy and primary health care." Says TIME Senior Writer Eugene Linden in Cairo: "Nobody here understands the Vatican's vote. There's no precedent for it." So why did the Holy See have a change of heart? "The anger and the ridicule among...
...divided. Why should Americans care? A meeting between the two could cool Cold-War tensions and help further defuse a U.S.-North Korea standoff over Pyongyang's nuclear-weapons program. Already, though, signs are emerging of potential irritation between the two Koreas: the North refuses to discuss a second confab, which the Southerners hope to hold in Seoul. Longtime Korea watchers warn that hopeful signs of impending summits have been dashed before...