"powwow" is a correct and usable word in written English
You can use it to refer to a meeting or gathering, especially of Native Americans. For example: "The tribe held a powwow to discuss the upcoming harvest."
As far as Andy is concerned, that secretive annual powwow is a mere awayday for junior personnel.
Early in the morning of December 7th delegates to the World Trade Organisation's powwow rose to applaud the first deal among all its members to expand its scope since the WTO's inception in 1995.
The outlets face each other around the twin food courts like rival factions at a powwow, but in fact they are franchises all operated by the same company, Moto.
The preliminary UN powwow in New York next week is intended to build on this feeling of common concern.In this section The deepest cuts Try jam today The shadow of Copenhagen ReprintsAnd the politics seem more promising.
As central bankers descend on Jackson Hole, Wyoming this weekend for their annual powwow, and all eyes are on whether Larry Summers or Janet Yellen leads America's Federal Reserve, one can't help but notice the paucity of women in the ranks.
Today's crisis may be the gravest since the Depression, but global finance will not be remade in a five-hour powwow hosted by a lame-duck president after less preparation than many corporate board meetings.
Slovenia's envoy, who signed the deal at a powwow in Japan, called her own behaviour an act of "civic carelessness".
In the longer run, ever more stringent restrictions on carbon emissions and ever higher efficiency standards for vehicles around the world will presumably help crimp demand for oil.At the OPEC powwow Mr al-Naimi, the Saudi oil minister, argued that a low oil price always sowed the seeds of a future price rise, since it led to underinvestment.
Go get them!" thundered Ed Schultz, a bombastic liberal radio host, at a recent progressive powwow, to equally thunderous applause.The disillusionment of the Democrats' base matters, says Charlie Cook, an electoral analyst, because mid-term elections have much lower turnouts than elections in presidential years, so the party faithful account for a higher proportion of votes.
At a diplomatic powwow in Moscow, the Russians reiterated their opposition to the use of either force or sanctions to deter Iran's nuclear ambitions.
THE Shangri-La Dialogue, an annual powwow in Singapore for Asia-Pacific defence chiefs, has begun to follow a pattern: America and its friends in Asia line up to criticise China for its alleged transgressions in the seas around its coast; China issues fierce, mendacious and unconvincing rebuttals; everybody goes home.
