Word: summiteering
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...subplot of the summit was played out mostly offstage, where Clinton and his aides began to worry about the high cost of the myriad promises that got them elected. In tense sessions before and after the conference, Clinton and his top advisers fretted that his campaign pledge to cut the deficit in half within four years -- while cutting middle-class taxes and spending more on everything from highways to veterans' benefits -- now looks a lot tougher to meet than they expected. Failure to fulfill it could prove as politically damaging to Clinton as was President Bush's "no new taxes...
Clinton has scheduled private briefings this week to consider some of the tough choices that he gave short shrift during the economic summit: a hike in the gasoline tax, a new national sales tax and a tax on employer-provided medical insurance -- each of which could be rebated to lower- and middle- income taxpayers. Another option: "redefine" Clinton's pledge by vowing to eliminate the deficit by the end of his second term...
...amply certified, first by Denmark's rejection, then by severe strains in an interim currency mechanism, by a festering budget crisis and finally, less than a week earlier, by a referendum in nonmember Switzerland that came down against experimenting even with a customs affiliation. The question facing the Edinburgh summit, said host John Major, was whether the Twelve could overcome "very real difficulties" to preserving Maastricht...
Even the timing of the separation statement was ridiculed. Major canceled a meeting with Jacques Delors, President of the European Commission, just before the Edinburgh summit. Says London University constitutional expert Peter Hennessy: "Royal issues still override all other issues." Anthony Holden, a biographer of Prince Charles, remarks of the announcement, "It just may be that Major is dumb enough to think that the Edinburgh conference would bury it, and the royal family is dumb enough to think that Princess Anne's marriage would obscure...
...find shorter lines at the T-bar, a less advanced way of reaching the summit. There are very few T-Bars remaining at American ski areas, so if you find one, it's probably old and dangerous...