Word: summited
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...biggest winner of the entire Jiang-Clinton summit may very well be Boeing--Jiang agreed to a $3 billion deal to buy 50 airplanes--which speaks volumes about the relationship between the two countries...
...certainly would surprise Americans to learn that China's boss, who arrives for his summit with Clinton next week, has a human face. Jiang's visit is raising hopes of a reconciliation between the two geopolitical giants that will end eight years of official frostiness precipitated by China's 1989 bloody crackdown on pro-democracy demonstrators in Tiananmen Square. Jiang certainly expects that. In his exclusive interview with Time, he declared, "At present, Sino-American relations have a favorable opportunity for further improvement...
Inspired in part by an education summit that took place in May last year, 44 states are revising their standards, and five more are writing them for the first time (Iowa is the lone holdout). The term standards in this case refers to something quite specific: official, written guidelines that define what a state expects its public school students to know and be able to do. Some states have set standards for every grade; others measure students' progress over periods of several years...
...previous visits, Vogel had pitched to Jiang the idea of speaking at Harvard. With the upcoming summit in Washington, it became possible for Jiang to visit the University, dubbed the Kremlin on the Charles by former President Nixon...
Challenges loom: a child-care conference, a summit on global warming, maybe even Social Security reform. But what best mobilizes this White House is a purely political fight, preferably a campaign. Which is why many members of the President's top staff quickly volunteered to rush across the street when Al Gore needed help explaining his role in the campaign fund-raising mess. "Having an election out there gives people a cause," says a White House official. In a White House addicted to campaigning, the Vice President is the employer of choice...