Word: summits
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...members of the consortium met with a number of department chairs in what Nagy referred to as a "Foreign Language Summit...
Flier termed the consensus at the summit "remarkable," but attendees said they were no closer to an exact plan...
These are important questions, but with the U.S. a virtual foreign policy-free zone lately, there has been almost no debate outside the diplomatic and academic community about NATO extension. There will be more after the July NATO summit, and it should be thorough. Critics will question whether the U.S. should get more deeply involved in Europe. They will focus, properly, on the cost of expansion--$35 billion overall, according to the White House, vs. the $125 billion Congressional Budget Office estimate--and argue that defending London is one thing, but Budapest? Proponents of expansion will counter yes, Budapest...
Perhaps it's appropriate that the volunteer summit in Philadelphia [BUSINESS, May 5] took place at the same time that Grand Forks, N.D., was experiencing severe flood damage. The roll-up-your-sleeves, let's-get-moving attitude of the volunteers who helped the people of Grand Forks has made it very apparent that private, voluntary efforts can work infinitely more wonders than any government bureaucracy is ever capable of. STEPHEN V. GILMORE Charlotte...
...headline GOOD PEOPLE REWARDED; EVIL ONES TO SUFFER. The worry monger in me finds no satisfaction in the international pages either. The democracy kudzu spreads relentlessly, and while there are troubles, none compares with the risk of imminent global incineration. Then: the Cuban missile crisis. Now: the Caribbean summit. After so carefully developing the habit of pessimism, is it any wonder I feel bereft...