Word: summited
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...amply certified, first by Denmark's rejection, then by severe strains in an interim currency mechanism, by a festering budget crisis and finally, less than a week earlier, by a referendum in nonmember Switzerland that came down against experimenting even with a customs affiliation. The question facing the Edinburgh summit, said host John Major, was whether the Twelve could overcome "very real difficulties" to preserving Maastricht...
Even the timing of the separation statement was ridiculed. Major canceled a meeting with Jacques Delors, President of the European Commission, just before the Edinburgh summit. Says London University constitutional expert Peter Hennessy: "Royal issues still override all other issues." Anthony Holden, a biographer of Prince Charles, remarks of the announcement, "It just may be that Major is dumb enough to think that the Edinburgh conference would bury it, and the royal family is dumb enough to think that Princess Anne's marriage would obscure...
...find shorter lines at the T-bar, a less advanced way of reaching the summit. There are very few T-Bars remaining at American ski areas, so if you find one, it's probably old and dangerous...
Then followed the commemorative editions:Christmas, Mother's Day, the Olympics, even theUnited Nations Earth Summit...
...help prepare for his first 100 days in office, Clinton plans to invite economists, executives and labor leaders to a Little Rock summit next month to diagnose the economy's ills and prescribe remedies for them. "If we're lowering expectations, summit was a bad choice of words," says a rueful adviser. Though the forum is shaping up as a centerpiece of Clinton's transition, the record of such talkfests has often been meager. Gerald Ford's 1974 meeting of the minds produced mainly red-and-white WIN (Whip Inflation Now) buttons that proved to be little more than good...