Word: summited
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...discoveries Edwin Hubble made in a few remarkable years in the 1920s. At the time, most of his colleagues believed the Milky Way galaxy, a swirling collection of stars a few hundred thousand light-years across, made up the entire cosmos. But peering deep into space from the chilly summit of Mount Wilson, in Southern California, Hubble realized that the Milky Way is just one of millions of galaxies that dot an incomparably larger setting...
That incident happened three or four years ago, but I was sharply reminded of it within the last couple of weeks when I read in a Radcliffe P.R. newsletter about a "Presidential Summit" that had just taken place in North Carolina. This occasion, organized by the Radcliffe College Alumni Association (RCAA) and the Harvard Clubs of the Carolinas, featured a meeting between Linda S. Wilson, President of Radcliffe "College," the President of the University of North Carolina, the Chancellor of North Carolina State and the Dean of Duke University Law School. Topics of discussion included affirmative action, the impact...
...accords are hardly specific. But the latest agreements between India and Pakistan should not be dismissed lightly, either. Over the weekend at a historic summit meeting in Pakistan, the leaders of the two countries agreed to keep talking about many of the issues that separate them -- including control of Kashmir -- and to take confidence-building measures aimed at reducing the risk of nuclear war between the two countries. "What an unexpected change of course!" says TIME Washington deputy bureau chief Jef McAllister...
Someday, Wes Anderson will make a truly wonderful comedy. Rushmore is a film that comes close but ultimately falls short of the summit...
...economic development summit would providelong-term objectives," Buonomo says...