In 35 seasons in Knoxville, Summit has amassed 1,005 wins, eight national titles and 14 Southeast Conference titles.

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The morning after a major entrepreneurship conference wrapped in Washington, Clinton spoke at a breakfast for women from around the world who attended that summit.

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President Obama repeated that point during a press conference following the Moscow summit.

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Isn't that the country trying to dominate the Middle East and inviting Iraq and Syria to a summit conference in Tehran?

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The most obvious example of this phenomenon is the recent Web Summit conference in Dublin, which saw attendance nearly triple to 4, 000 from last year.

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Strictly speaking, Germany has been part of the West's big four since at least 1979, when Chancellor Helmut Schmidt joined America, Britain and France for a summit conference in Guadeloupe to discuss how to counter the Soviet Union's nuclear plans in Europe.

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