Word: summited
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...three-day Ivy Leaders Summit, the first of its kind, will join 10 students from each school with professors and professional leaders in a conference at Yale University beginning...
...Summit co-chair Amar Dhand, a Dartmouth junior, said that, as of yesterday evening, less than 15 Harvard students had applied. He said Harvard has had fewer applicants than most other schools, some of which have had more than 35 applicants...
Dhand said extensive efforts to increase publicity about the summit did not begin until recently...
...facing a problem familiar to that of moderate Republicans - making their voices heard above the extremist din in their own tent. President Clinton arrived in a Seattle under siege Wednesday, after police Tuesday imposed a curfew to curb the protests that disrupted the opening of the WTO summit. An impossibly broad coalition of activists - ranging from anarchists to environmentalists and the pillars of U.S. organized labor - have condemned the WTO as a forum of corporate interests with growing power to overrule national governments on such issues as protecting the environment and labor rights. Free trade advocates defend the organization...
...such as the trashing of a McDonald's outlet on Monday - threaten to disrupt and distort the underlying cautionary message being borne by the WTO's naysayers, the very scale of the street protests meant that it was anything but business as usual on Day 1 of the Seattle summit...