For investors adding dividends, A. Michael Lipper, president of Lipper Advisory Services in Summit, N.
But that definition was a bit premature for the high school seniors in Reba Petraitis' contemporary history class at Kent Place School in Summit, N.
The meeting he convened, Brown said, is a precursor to the G8 summit of industrial nations, to be held in July, and a special U.N. summit in September.
Toronto, like other cities, will be sending a city delegation to Copenhagen for the U.N. summit in December.
The title of the U.N. summit says it all: COP 15, or the 15th United Nations conference on the same issue.
The same thing is playing out across the globe, and the seemingly perpetual U.N. summit process is working out the principals of regional fairness.
That was accepted by all nations at last year's U.N. summit.
For those who may have missed hearing about the pageantry and excitement of the previous U.N. summit held in Copenhagen last year, I will recap some highlights that set the stage for this most auspicious upcoming event and underscore its urgency.
But participants fell short in their efforts to require more information and consent among nations trading in a construction material, Chrysotile asbestos, and a formulation of the powerful herbicide, Paraquat, despite support from most of the 169 nations represented at the two-week U.N. summit.
Earlier at the Rome summit, U.N. chief Ban Ki-Moon called for a drastic increase in food production to meet the demands of a rising population and stave off a crisis brought about by oil prices, climate change and the impact of the biofuel market.
Kim Dae Jung had been due to hold talks with North Korean-designated head of state Kim Yong-nam on the sidelines of the U.N. summit but the prospect of talks vanished when the North's delegation flew home complaining of rude body searches by U.S. airline staff in Frankfurt.
As Secretary of State Hillary Clinton put it at the Sept. 24 nuclear nonproliferation summit at the U.N.
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The Rio Earth Summit codified the U.N.
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Schroeder, current president of the 15-nation European Union, convened a special EU summit Wednesday to meet with U.N.
Michel Djotodia, the rebel leader who has declared himself president, is sending his Prime Minister Nicolas Tiangaye to the summit in Chad's capital, N'Djamena.
"It seems impossible to us to recognise a man who has appointed himself, " said Chadian President Idriss Deby following the emergency summit hosted in Chad's capital, N'Djamena.
Joe Biden of Delaware, that Bush convene a summit with European allies on Iraq and ask the U.N.
Foreign Minister Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf has demanded that the summit support his country's demands for an end to both U.N. sanctions and U.S. and British air patrols over Iraq.
The United States, Canada and Israel sent lower-level delegations to the U.N. conference in protest of what they see as anti-Israel sentiment at the summit.
At the summit, the presidents of Bosnia, Croatia and Serbia agreed to resume all-party talks, suspend U.N. sanctions on Bosnian Serbs, work to ease tensions in Sarajevo and the divided town of Mostar and adopt a policy on war crimes and prisoners.
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