Word: summiteering
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...feat of charisma, political leadership or by the strength of his arguments, but simply by appearing competent, and firm in his positions. By week's end, the transatlantic division over global warming was as sharp as ever - the phrase "we disagree" seldom makes it into communiqu?s issued after summit meetings, but it was the only way Bush and the European Union leaders could characterize their discussion on the issue. And even after Bush had urged European NATO members to sign on to missile defense, the continent's key players were unconvinced...
TIME.com: President Bush and European leaders failed to agree over global warming at their summit in Sweden today. Where does this leave both sides on the issue...
...graft payroll and a string of chilling murders--including that of a key rival's wife, whose head was reportedly severed and delivered in a box of dry ice--the Arellanos realized their audacious goal: to own the coveted stretch of desert from Tijuana to Mexicali. During a 1992 summit of Mexican druglords at a Sinaloa ranch, they raised the fees charged to others for using their turf. In response, rival druglord Joaquin (Chapo) Guzman sent gunmen to kill the Arellanos at a Puerto Vallarta disco. As bullets rained, the brothers escaped through a bathroom skylight (after struggling to shove...
...fine, so he didn?t receive quite the press that Erik did. The only reason Sherman gets mentioned at all, in fact, is that he also set a record with Erik that day. Sherman is 64, the oldest person to ever climb Mount Everest. He also stood on the summit with his son Brad, making them the second father-son team to do so. But that?s not the whole story...
...REACHED SUMMIT. ERIK WEIHENMAYER, 32, blind mountaineer; on Mount Everest. The Golden, Colo., climber is the first blind person ever to scale the world's highest peak. Among his 18 climbing teammates was Sherman Bull, 64, the oldest person ever to reach the summit...