Word: summiteer
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...president and the governors also concentrated on structural reform at the summit meeting saying that the states should be given more flexibility with federal funds...
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va.--The first ever presidential education summit came to an end yesterday, as President Bush and the nation's 50 governors said helping disadvantaged preschoolers and illiterate adults were among their top priorities for the near future...
Bush noted progress on those issues and agreements on other matters--during talks last weekend between Secretary of State James A. Baker III and Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard A. Shevardnadze--as well as a decision to hold a summit meeting with Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev by early next summer...
First official word of the summit plans came from Bush, who informed reporters on a golf course near his vacation home in Maine after taking a telephone call from Baker. "I think around the world people will be pleased," he said...
Between talks on arms control and arrangements for a Bush-Gorbachev summit, Baker wants Shevardnadze to experience a different America at a Saturday cookout and Western hoedown. The informal atmosphere, he hopes, will enhance their rapport. The scenario is vintage Baker: relaxed on the surface, complex beneath...