Word: summiteer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...official said the two governments had evidently accepted the concept of "parity" in their diplomatic complements and should move on to arms control and other issues pursued by President Reagan and Mikhail S. Gorbachev, the Soviet leader, at the Iceland summit two weeks...
...administration is preparing new arms control proposals, based on the summit meeting, to present to the Soviets in negotiations in Geneva. Also, Secretary of State George P. Shultz is due to meet with Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard A. Shevardnadze in Vienna...
...nickel for every unsuccessful summit of recent years, you would have enough pinball money to play until the next unsuccessful summit. That would probably be a more productive way to spend your time than worrying why none of these superpower exchanges comes to anything...
...then, everyone loves fruitless speculation, especially when the mirage of hope glimmers on the horizon. After all, even the Red Sox can pull it off now and then. So when the mini-summit in Iceland between Reagan and Gorbachev was announced, a universal gasp of optimism went up: maybe this year something would actually happen...
...missed the show. In less time than it takes to stowaway on a herring boat, the mini-summit had come and gone. I was depressed. "Rutger," I said, "tell me. How could it end so quickly...