Word: summited
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DENVER: While this year's summit of major industrial nations will focus on topics ranging from terrorism to infectious diseases, President Clinton intends to steal the spotlight by flaunting the state of the U.S. economy. Clinton, who will arrive in Denver today for the three-day Summit of the Eight, has already set the tone, highlighting the American model of economic development and the policies the Administration has utilized to support private enterprise. "It's indefinable and intangible, but I think it has a lot to do with why we are who we are," he crowed to the Wall Street...
...fourth-grade reading and eighth-grade math. The tests are supposed to serve only as a benchmark to assess educational progress, but they could one day lead to nationwide graduation standards. Now Wisconsin Governor Tommy Thompson and IBM chairman Louis Gerstner Jr., co-chairs of last year's Education Summit, are adding to the pressure, enlisting companies to pledge that they will look at young applicants' academic records, including exit-test scores, rather than rely only on interviews and job-skill tests...
...crucial test will come next week, when Jospin and Chirac head to Amsterdam for the European Summit. There the ministers are due to approve the controversial, German-inspired "stability pact," intended to impose continued budgetary rigor once the euro is launched. But Jospin has denounced the pact as a "super-Maastricht." If he sticks to that position in Amsterdam, the launching of the euro could be delayed or even scuttled...
...Frank Gifford, Michael Kennedy and Paula Jones would think that our national pastime was not baseball but the Playboy channel. The day after the Supreme Court ruled that Paula Jones' lawsuit could go forward, the story led most major newspapers, above the announcement by Boris Yeltsin at the NATO summit that he would no longer target nuclear missiles at the Western alliance. Peace is at hand, but so what? We've got a woman here saying once again that Clinton came on to her in a hotel room six years...
...fitting, even if only a coincidence, that the new millennium arrives along with a series of momentous European decisions and deadlines. Next month in Madrid a NATO summit meeting will invite at least three former Warsaw Pact members to join the Western alliance in 1999. Next spring the European Union will begin organizing the monetary union for its start in 1999 and open talks with Central and Eastern European countries that want to join...