Word: summiteer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Since January, an astonishing 219 people under the age of 17 have been shot in Detroit; 18 have died. Some of the victims are believed to have been involved in the drug trade. Last week a group of 88 students from the city's high schools began a summit meeting to discuss ways of combatting the violence. They will present their recommendations to Mayor Coleman Young in late November...
...problems seem so easy out there on the stump. Deficits shrink with a rhetorical flourish. And all you have to do for a summit is ring up the Kremlin and say, "Hey, Konstantin, let's get together next week in Geneva...
...Ronald Reagan is the winner next week, those deficits are going to be just as big and bad as they ever were. If Walter Mondale comes out on top, he may find that the Soviets aren't as eager for a summit as he is-or that Soviet Boss Konstantin Chernenko has checked into a Moscow hospital...
Subtle shifts in physical and mental health leave their mark on presidential actions. Without his throbbing back would Kennedy have been quite so glum after his 1961 Vienna summit with Nikita Khrushchev and spread so much alarm in the country? Hindsight suggests that the U.S. may have done a little more nervous saber rattling that summer than the situation in Berlin really required...
What binds these strongly independent men is a warm personal admiration-and, of course, a powerful common interest in resisting Hitler. The letters graphically show how that interest leads them into their thorny alliance with Joseph Stalin. In what must be one of the harshest summit conferences ever endured, Churchill goes to Moscow in 1942 to inform Stalin that the Western Allies cannot possibly open a second front in France that year. "We argued for about two hours," Churchill reports to Roosevelt, "during which he said many disagreeable things, especially about our being too much afraid of fighting the Germans...