Word: summiteer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Jackson has proposed to convene a Camp-Davidlike summit of congressional and gubernatorialleaders to solve the deficit problem and said aU.S. pull-out from the Persian Gulf will alsoreduce the debt...
Fate nonetheless has often been on Reagan's side, and may be again. Last week he arranged a summit with Gorbachev and nominated a new Justice to the Supreme Court. Reagan has always had luck and a sunny talent to bounce back...
Washington seems to be groping toward some such policy, though as yet timidly and uncertainly. At a so-called domestic summit last week, bipartisan congressional leaders and top advisers to Ronald Reagan began discussing tax increases and spending cuts that would reduce the budget deficit in the current fiscal year by at least $23 billion, more if possible. The President, who before Black Monday had strongly resisted calls for such a conference, got the sessions going by meeting with the legislators and issued a statement urging them "to put aside partisan rivalries and work together for our nation's future...
...benefits for corporate takeovers, and limits on the amounts of home loans that are eligible for interest deductions ($1 million on mortgages and $100,000 for home-equity loans). "Treacherous!" exclaimed Texas Republican Richard Armey. "This is a bait-and-switch tactic. They baited the President into a summit and then switched on him." The Democrats in fact are likely to use this package of tax increases as a lever to pry concessions out of the White House at the domestic summit. Though Reagan has withdrawn his frequent pledges to veto anything resembling a tax increase, he has made...
NATION: In a surprising flip- flop, Gorbachev agrees to a Washington summit...