Word: summits
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...biggest rebuilding jobs since Vince Lombardi overhauled the Redskins. The paper has been thoroughly redesigned: foreign news is being given less space, and domestic stories are receiving a more featurish, consumer-directed treatment. While the Post's two top stories one day last week were the Paris economic summit and a leftist rally in Lisbon, the Star led with stories on tax abuses and the new FBI crime statistics. One of the Star's most recent innovations is a column called "Gobbledygook," which uncovers choice items of bureaucratic doubletalk. The paper last month began sending gold-colored metal...
...economic summit meeting at the Chåteau de Rambouillet outside Paris fulfilled the modest expectations. The heads of government of the U.S., France, Britain, West Germany, Italy and Japan pledged greater cooperation in managing their increasingly interdependent economies and agreed to fight vigorously against "high unemployment, continuing inflation and serious energy problems" without so much as hinting at any specific measures by which these grand goals might be accomplished. The reaction of many observers, and some aides to the government chiefs, was summed up by London's Daily Express, which dubbed the gathering "NonEvent of the Year...
...competitive thing. It was not decided by any one person who would do the summit. The criteria for the selection was, who'd worked the hardest and the strongest," he said...
Twelve years later the amputated toes of two of the climbers serve to remind them of the costly mistake they made by reaching the summit of Everest just before sundown. Unable to return along the ridge in the darkness, they huddled together through the night against the cold. Their toes didn't bother them till they returned to base camp three days later and their feet began to thaw. Because of the pain in their toes they had to be carried down by porters...
...said that the climbers who made it to the summit felt a distinct emotional letdown after their feat...