Word: summiteer
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...movie begins in a TV-news remote trailer in Salamanca, Spain, where the hassled, blinkered executive producer (Sigourney Weaver) is trying to steer live coverage of a peace summit toward bland bromides and away from the anti-U.S. demonstrations on the periphery of the event. Once the assassins' shots hit their human target and a large bomb disperses the crowd, the movie flashes back 23 mins. and starts all over again, in be-kind-rewind fashion, and we get the perspectives of President Ashton (William Hurt), two of his Secret Service bodyguards (Dennis Quaid and Matthew Fox), an American...
...part of the Centennial, the Business School also plans to have a campus-wide celebration commemorating its official birthday on April 8, and it will host a Global Business Summit in October...
...soothe tensions within the Western alliance. As the senior Western European leader and the one with perhaps the best ties to the U.S., Thatcher feels she can be of great help. For example, it was the Prime Minister who suggested at last month's Williamsburg, Va., summit meeting that the leaders of the world's seven key industrial nations en-agreement is reached with the Soviets by the end of the year...
...technology adoption in developing markets," says Paulson. "We have no chance of solving this problem unless we accelerate the use of clean technology and come up with incentives for the private sector." Japan hopes to take the lead in climate change when it hosts the Group of Eight summit in Hokkaido at the lakeside resort of Toyako in early July...
...That effort tops the agenda at Thursday's meeting of NATO defense ministers in the Lithuanian capital Vilnius, just as it will at a major summit of NATO heads of government in Bucharest in April. Some U.S. officials are billing that meeting as a make-or-break effort for the future not just of the Afghanistan operation but of the Atlantic Alliance...