Word: summited
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Perhaps the trickiest role belongs to Gephardt, the House minority leader. Clinton came back from his Little Rock economic summit in 1992 saying, "I love Dick Gephardt!" But after Gephardt opposed NAFTA and pushed Clinton away from centrist measures such as welfare reform, their interests diverged. A centrist who turned liberal when he ran for President in 1988, Gephardt has tacked back toward the center lately, promoting a distinctly moderate "families-first" agenda of baby steps such as portable pensions and health insurance for children. The two men could work together again, gluing Democratic votes to Republican moderates...
Confronted with the terrifying rise of AIDS in the black community, 90 black leaders from diverse backgrounds convened yesterday at the Faculty Club for a summit intended to catalyze a national response to the epidemic...
...gathering consisted of a series of private meetings between leaders of the black community. Organizers held a press conference at the end of the summit, where the leaders summarized the day's events...
...unite the front combating AIDS, the summit's leaders called for greater communication and sharing of information among the participants to bring the issues home to their respective communities...
Although yesterday's summit attracted black leaders from academia, law, the media, medicine and religion, organizers said they were disappointed that blacks in business, entertainment and athletics were underrepresented...