Word: summiteer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...demonstration, which is supported by Jewish and human rights organizations around the country and from Canada, including Harvard Hillel, is expected to draw more than 100,000 people. First conceived of after a possible Gorbachev visit to the U.S. was mentioned at last November's Rejkavik summit, the rally will take place on December...
...already one of the great odd couples of history: Ronald Reagan, the septuagenarian American conservative with his high-noon view of the superpower competition, and Mikhail Gorbachev, the youthful Soviet reformer with his reassuring slogans about "new thinking" and "mutual security." If, as both hope, they hold a fourth summit before Reagan leaves office, perhaps in Moscow, they will have met more often than any of their predecessors. And if the intermediate- range nuclear forces treaty that they are about to sign leads to a strategic arms agreement next year, their relationship will have proved far more productive than anyone...
NATION: The "domestic summit" ends with a fizzle -- and a half- baked budget deal...
...dark days after last month's stock-market crash, there was one glimmer of hope: the calamity would shock Washington out of its derelict disregard of the deficit and force some courageous budget decisions on Congress and the White House. With great fanfare and high expectations, a "domestic summit" was convened. President Reagan agreed to drop his reflexive opposition to any taxes. Congressional leaders made so many declarations about the need for cooperation that they began to sound almost sincere. Partisan quarrels would be set aside. Now was the time for bold action...
...fiscal 1988 will hardly make a dent in the deficit for that year, which Congress projects will be $179.9 billion. Senator Bob Packwood, an Oregon Republican, called the budget package a "miserable little pittance." Congressman Newt Gingrich was even more acerbic in his appraisal. "It's a perfect summit deal for Thanksgiving vacation," said the Georgia Republican. "These leaders labored and produced the largest turkey of them...