Word: summited
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...pictures have been piling up for 150 years. Battlefields, floods, summit conferences, auto accidents, congratulatory handshakes, game-winning touchdowns. Most scenes vanish quickly into the newspaper morgue. A few, however, linger in the mind's eye. Of the billions of metal sheets, glass plates, celluloid spools and other light-sensitive surfaces exposed to history in the name of publishing, only a handful of images have themselves become part of history. These form a sort of shared visual heritage for the human race, a treasury of significant memories. Every educated person should be familiar with them, just...
...long-term goals, beyond hoping for a "kinder, gentler" nation, have been lost in a miasma of public relations stunts. The President's recent "education summit" with the nation's Governors produced some interesting ideas about national standards but little about how to pay the costs of helping public schools meet them. His much trumpeted war against drugs was more an underfinanced skirmish. Bush told voters last year that he is an environmentalist, but the most significant clean-air proposals put forth this year -- stringent new standards on automobile emissions -- were adapted from California's strict limits for the 1990s...
...economic summit in Paris in July, the leaders of the seven largest industrial democracies devoted a third of their final communique to an appeal for "decisive action" to "understand and protect the earth's ecological balance." Just a month earlier, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, representing the major economic powers, had called upon "all relevant national, regional and international organizations" of its 24 member states to take a "vigilant, serious and realistic" look at "balancing long- term environmental costs and benefits against near-term economic growth...
...decision came less than a week after President George Bush and the nation's Governors huddled in Charlottesville, Va., for an education summit that endorsed several of the same ideas -- radical restructuring of schools and creation of national performance goals. "The Texas ruling is consistent with the growing national expectations we are placing on schools," says Robert Berne, an associate dean at New York University...
Garcia, the Peruvian president, said the drug summit "will represent our point of view on how to confront the escalation of violence that drug traffickers have unleashed in our countries, and also our perspective on the United States president's proposals...