Word: summiteer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...about half the level forecast at the beginning of the year. Defused inflation has in turn enabled central bankers around the world, including the U.S. Federal Reserve Board, to stimulate their economies with fairly easy credit. When the leaders of the seven major industrial countries meet for an economic summit next month in Tokyo, they may push even harder for growth by agreeing to lower interest rates or cut taxes. Walter Heller, who was chief economic adviser to President Kennedy, believes that the U.S. economy will start growing at a healthy 4% to 5% rate...
...nuclear tests by both sides, following a long series of diplomatic developments that have shaken relations between the superpowers over the past few months, would deeply affect an even more fundamental question: Can anything be preserved of the accommodative "spirit of Geneva" that emerged from the Reagan-Gorbachev summit only five months...
...statement mention the summit between Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev and President Reagan scheduled for this year in the United States, or how it might be affected by the test ban developments...
...plausible. The American commitment to protect Western interests in the Mediterranean is considered vital and stretches back 40 years. Gorbachev's offer, said one official, was in effect asking the U.S. to sacrifice a knight for a pawn. On Saturday, Gorbachev went still further by calling for an early summit with Reagan in Europe to discuss his proposed ban on testing nuclear weapons. But Donald Regan pointed out that the Soviet leader had already agreed to a summit in a different locale. "The United States," said Regan. "That's where he was invited...
...that acid rain was caused by trees. In a St. Patrick's Day meeting a year ago in Quebec City with Canadian Prime Minister Brian Mulroney, the President rejected requests from his fellow Irishman for U.S. action. But last week in Washington, during his second "shamrock summit" with Mulroney, Reagan changed his tune. Acid rain, said he, "is a serious concern affecting both our countries...