Word: summiteering
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...much publicized Sept. 13 memo, but a week before he wrote it, sources tell TIME, Clinton was already telling Saudi Crown Prince Abdullah that he was strongly considering tapping the reserve. They met in a suite at the Waldorf-Astoria in New York City during the U.N. Millennium Summit. Clinton's "objective was to get quiet support from the Saudis," says a source close to the talks. A few days later the President dispatched Richardson to Los Angeles to brief Prince Saud al-Faisal, the Saudi Foreign Minister. It couldn't have been a surprise to Clinton when Gore called...
...casts the 19th century's most ambitious undertaking as a war fought on two fronts. Building from opposite directions, men of the Central Pacific and Union Pacific threw themselves at seemingly impregnable obstacles and rewrote the engineering textbook. In one feat, two teams boring toward each other through the Summit Tunnel in Nevada were off only two inches when they met. Adjusting for some patriotic windage and unedited repetitions, Ambrose's latest rouser is also on the mark...
...thought he'd be a prominent figure who spoke at the [United Nations] World Peace Summit and everything, more so than [one] who would talk about the course," Chatterjee said...
...streets brandishing the same hammer-and-sickle logo that had adorned those Russian tanks must look a little bizarre to a Czech population who suffered four decades of the repression, deprivation and tragicomic absurdity of communism; indeed, the standoff between leftist demonstrators and the World Bank and IMF whose summit they're trying to disrupt may be a little farcical, but it's not without its ironies...
...hosting the U.N. Millennium Summit b) putting up with Cats all those years c) making other big-city police depts. look tolerant d) giving the world Larry King...