Word: confabbed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...recently, Secretary of Labor Robert B. Reich and former Secretary of Labor John T. Dunlop, Lamont University professor emeritus, stopped in for a confab over the restaurant's Bavarian specialities, Cardullo said...
...closer to a presidential bid. When the Democratic Leadership Council convenes in the city May 5-7, most would-be candidates will simply drop in for a few hours of standard speechifying, handshaking and smiley-faced photo ops. The Tennessee Senator aims to spend two full days at the confab, energetically schmoozing with rich donors and story-starved journalists. His game plan: remind fellow party members that he voted for war with Iraq, and deliver a pithy speech on nascent campaign issues...
...trial balloons, all aimed at averting a war over Kuwait that otherwise looked imminent. The European Community met in Luxembourg. Jordan's King Hussein shuttled around Europe. A former aide to French President Francois Mitterrand tried his luck in Baghdad, and Libya's Muammar Gaddafi convened his own Arab confab. Most significant, after weeks of ; petty dickering over when to get together, the U.S. and Iraq finally agreed to a high-level meeting in Geneva this week, their first since the confrontation erupted...