Word: summiteer
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...Some two decades later, with an estimated fortune of $40 million, a wife and two children, he'd no sooner ticked off the second goal than he was pushing for the handover from Clark to be fast-tracked so he could attend the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation leaders' summit in Peru from...
...historical standards, George W. Bush and Barack Obama were remarkably civil in their Oval Office summit. They had never engaged in hand-to-hand combat. Despite the loathing for Bush that animates many in his party, Obama ran less against the man than his record. Bush, apparently in an undisclosed location throughout Campaign 2008, seldom had a bad word to say about Obama, beyond privately dismissing him as a naive lefty. He called Obama's victory a "triumph of the American story, a testament to hard work, optimism and faith in the enduring promise of our nation." Obama's team...
French President Nicolas Sarkozy is not the sort to let a grim outlook undermine his trademark determination. So despite the chorus of warnings against expecting conclusive results from this Saturday's G-20 summit in Washington on the world's crisis-stricken financial system, Sarkozy says he'll accept nothing short of tangible progress toward "moralizing finance markets...
...this be very clear: If I don't get concrete results, I'll take off," Sarkozy warned Saturday following a meeting of European Union heads to prepare a common position for the Nov. 15 summit. "I'll leave Washington and come home." (See Today in Pictures...
...pilots of France's presidential Airbus may want to keep their engines idling. For despite the enduring crisis and darkening recession, few participants or observers of the summit believe the gathering will accomplish anything beyond initiating a very long and still murky effort to address some of the factors that led to the rot and implosion of U.S. financial markets and its contamination abroad. "We are not hoping for much from the G-20 meeting," admitted Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva on Tuesday. "It is only the start, even if it is a promising...