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Summitese

https://nytimes.com/library/magazine/home/20000604mag-onlanguage.html

“parley at the summit" was what Winston Churchill called for a half-century ago. He envisioned an intimate get-together of a few world leaders and not a paperbound conference "zealously contested by hordes of experts and officials drawn up in a vast cumbrous array." This week's scheduled summit in...” (from the page’s text)

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