Word: summiteering
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...Post-Copernican Summit. In recognition of diminished superpower influence, foreign policy mandarin Madeleine Albright invoked the astronomer who noted that the earth was not the center of the universe...
...Toughlove Summit. Spokesman Marlin Fitzwater used the name to stress that Bush would temper his admiration for Gorbachev's goals with stern talk on Lithuania and Germany...
...Final Summit. The Wall Street Journal has concluded that such mettings are rapidly becoming obsolete as Gorbachev loses his command of events at home...
...Right Thing Summit. Drawing upon its knowledge of hip black symbols, the New Republic says Spike Lee's movie provides the theme: get Gorbachev to give in on key issues...
...Gorbachev grinned confidently through the summit last week, he suffered his first major political loss at home. In spite of Gorbachev's stop-Yeltsin efforts, the roughhewn Siberian populist was elected chairman of the Russian Federation's parliament. The two leaders are public antagonists and private enemies. Yeltsin calls Gorbachev indecisive and accuses him of "continuous compromise and half measures." Gorbachev calls Yeltsin "politically illiterate." As de facto president of Russia, by far the largest and most important of the 15 Soviet republics, Yeltsin can help either sabotage or salvage Gorbachev's economic and political programs. In a year...