Word: summitin
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More than 2,500 Arab, Israeli and Western politicians, business figures and royalty emerged from athree-day economic summitin Morocco with agreements to compliment Mideast peace with economic development, including the launch of a regional development bank, a tourism board, chamber of commerce and business council. "In a sense, they're saying the Middle East is now open for business," saysTIME correspondent Jay Branegan, in Casablanca. Branegan says the event amounts to a political blessing encouraging "the private sector to come in and consolidate the gains made in peace with investment, training and tourism." Whether it works...
...Saving the Earth's environment is now emergingas the central organizing principle of thepost-Cold War world," Gore said. "The Earth summitin Rio is the designated time and place for thistask to begin...
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