Word: confab
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...leaders of the world's major industrialized countries, the G-8, British Prime Minister Tony Blair spoke with TIME's London bureau chief J.F.O. McAllister about Blair's vision for the summit and how it differs from that of President George W. Bush. Blair's agenda for the confab concentrates on climate change and aid to Africa...
...North Korea at the table.) In the presidential debates, Bush argued that for the U.S. to go one-on-one would squander Beijing's influence with Pyongyang. But analysts say China would be content to see bilateral talks between the U.S. and North Korea proceed alongside the six-party confab. All in all, China could hardly be happier at the state of its relationship with the U.S. "Powell's trip shows that the U.S. takes China seriously," says Chu Shulong, a political scientist at Beijing's Tsinghua University, "and right now that is enough to keep relations steady." Amid...
After all, E3 is the insular annual confab of the video-games business, devoted to sound and fury and ever more realistic ways to annihilate the undead. (Resident Evil 4: Kill zombies with guns! Dead Run: Kill zombies with cars!) The Sims 2, by contrast, is a poignant, witty and fun interactive story about life, love and aging. Its high-scoring moments revolve around birthday cakes rather than body counts...
...this now. American officials acknowledge that the insurgents are a potent and increasingly structured force. A former Saddam aide who is close to insurgents in Anbar province, west of Baghdad, agrees. What were once dispersed cells are now meeting weekly in the area, he tells TIME. At the first confab four weeks ago, he says, fighters traded intelligence about the location of U.S. bases, discussed future tactics and planned a series of attacks...
...China's amicable stance toward its Asian neighbors was also on display earlier this month, when Wen Jiabao, China's smooth-talking Premier, traveled to an ASEAN confab in Bali. Instead of harping as usual about the Spratly Islands?tiny dots in the South China Sea that are claimed by China and several Southeast Asian nations?a smiling Wen instead urged greater economic cooperation through the establishment of a mutually beneficial trading bloc. Earlier this year, China also moved substantively to resolve a long-simmering border dispute with India?a big step for a nation that has had territorial disputes...