Word: summiteers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...election year. But what's bad for Bill Clinton may not be altogether bad for Al Gore, and the Seattle debacle may, in fact, work to the vice president's advantage: The Clinton administration's tough talk on labor rights won support from union leaders, and the summit's failure means there's no trade-talk framework agreement for the vice president to defend against Democratic party skeptics. U.S. trade representative Charlene Barshefsky, who chaired the Seattle talks, closed the conference Friday calling for a "time out" in the talks, and for the next year at least the principals...
...seems like all the Ivy League schools are separate entities," Stad said. "[The summit] is a lot of great minds coming together and talking about important issues...
Stad said he had not applied for the summit yet, but he said he plans to do so before the deadline...
...application for the summit asks students to list leadership experiences and to write three short essays. It is available on the Internet at http://pantheon.yale.edu/~asd24/.
...years ago today, leaders from around the globe began a 10-day United Nations summit in Kyoto, Japan to address the threat of global climate change. While the risks posed by such change have not disappeared, serious proposals to mitigate climate change (or "global warming") have vanished from the political map. After two years of stasis, it is high time that the United States face the problem of a changing climate and take positive steps to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions...