Word: summiteer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Gallagher had a style that will be missed. He was certainly the only candidate in the Eighth to ascend Harvard protesters' plywood "Ivory Tower" and yell "Hey, this is fun!" from its summit...
Indeed, the Prime Minister remains highly popular after weathering public disappointment over the outcome of last May's summit of industrial nations in Tokyo. Opponents charged that Nakasone had allowed the U.S. and other trading partners to dictate Japanese economic policy. Nonetheless, the Prime Minister's popularity rating held up well among voters, and currently stands at a robust...
This combination of money and technology, show biz and sex appeal strikes many foreigners as the epitome of the American success story, and so they adopt English words that imply success itself: super, blue chip, boom, status symbol, summit. Some of that, clearly, is just snobbery. Through U.S. television, says British Grammarian Randolph Quirk, a foreigner can pick up an Americanized vocabulary "if you want to show you're with it and talking like Americans, the most fashionable people on earth." On the other hand, some upper-class Egyptian youths think it is chic to use Anglo-Saxon four-letter...
...State George Shultz, indicated that last week's announcement amounted to a major shift in U.S. policy. It was a change that incurred the wrath of many of America's NATO allies as well as the Soviet Union, and may have hurt chances of a second Reagan-Gorbachev summit this year...
...Soviets denounced the U.S. policy shift, and suggested that the treaty renunciation undermines the prospects for another summit. A government statement dismissed Reagan's charges of Soviet transgressions as "unfounded from beginning to end. There have not been and are no such violations." The Soviets also promised to respond to any U.S. arms buildup: "The American side should have no illusions that it will obtain military advantages for itself at the expense of others...