Word: summiteer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...target date is two weeks before Soviet Communist Party General Secretary Mikhail S. Gorbachev and President Reagan begin their summit in the Soviet capital. Agreement on Afghanistan would resolve an issue that has troubled relations for nearly a decade, prompting a U.S. grain embargo and keeping Americans home from the 1980 Olympics in Moscow...
...GAPSC is still hoping to draw some of the students together through social events. Last month the council sponsored a "summit meeting/cocktail party" open to all representatives of the university's graduate schools' governments. While council members say that the event was not as well attended as they hoped, they add that those who did attend were enthusiastic...
June 18: Al Gore had been preparing for this summit for months. Every phone call, every chance meeting in airports, had been designed to lay the groundwork. Now, as Gore sat across the table from Jackson in Carthage, Tenn., he sensed that the nomination was in his grasp. "Jesse, this is what you've been fighting for all your life," Gore began quietly. "Unlike any other black in history, you have been given the power to choose the next President...
...draw attention elsewhere. North and the other characters in the Iran-contra drama dropped from sight after last summer's congressional hearings, and the House- Senate investigation seemed to come to an inconclusive end marked by partisan sniping. The Wall Street Crash and last December's Reagan-Gorbachev summit concentrated the nation's mind on larger matters. If the Iran-contra scandal has been a refrain in Democratic primary campaigns, and a stick that rivals have used to attack Bush, voters have seemed more interested in determining who can best protect their jobs and deal with Gorbachev...
...Chicago speech last week, the Vice President said he would call together another "summit" on the deficit crisis: "I am personally going to head the Executive Branch negotiating effort. Hands on, personal." Says a Bush aide: "There you have Bush's style in a nutshell. He would never send out a team and have contact with them only once or twice." That was what Reagan did during last December's budget negotiations...