This year the convention spans four of downtown's largest hotels.
Last year the convention center jettisoned about a dozen supervisors and placing 23 of its 44 full-time events workers on a call-in-as-needed status, all part of an effort to slash operating costs and free up tax revenue that the city of Minneapolis might use elsewhere.
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And in our seventh year, we sold more consoles than in any other year-defying convention.
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This year's convention got off to a late start when Monday's programme was postponed amid concerns that Hurricane Isaac might disrupt the proceedings in Tampa.
He suggested his party would not stick to the 60-year-old convention which says the House of Lords should not oppose plans from a government's election manifesto.
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This year, the convention also targeted a new demographic.
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Walker was recently given a prime speaking spot at this year's Republican convention.
He did not make the convention last year, and President Bush went five years in between visits.
Before either party had their convention this year, in late August, ABC polled with the same question.
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In addition to her movie roles, Judd served as a Tennessee delegate at the Democratic National Convention last year.
Natasha, who was at the Democratic convention this year, was irked to meet people there who laughed at her accent.
It also made the shirts, in red, white and blue, for the Colorado House delegation at this year's Democratic convention.
The convention this year focused on the advancement of technologies related to renewable energy, information communication technology, water conservation and biomedical research.
Moreover, the introduction into British law this year of the European Convention on Human Rights would almost certainly make abolition illegal, he says.
For decades, the choice was clear for the fan with time and money for only one big convention a year, but that might be changing.
Fifa president Sepp Blatter is the big name guest at this year's Soccerex convention, with 3, 000 delegates attending the latest gathering of the world's biggest football business event.
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The Word Heritage Committee meets once a year to implement the convention defining the kind of natural of cultural sites that can be considered for the prestigious list.
The liberal fighter stormed all the way to the floor of the Democratic convention that year to try to wrest the nomination from Jimmy Carter, a sitting president.
There have been a couple of international agreements (at the UN biodiversity convention last year, for example, when governments agreed there should be no geo-engineering schemes that damage nature).
In June 2002, I debated Vickers in an MSNBC "Hardball" program concerning the AMC's pro-Islamist record - and the inappropriateness of FBI Director Robert Mueller addressing its annual convention that year.
That's why Nixon invited Clint Eastwood (aka The Man With No Name) to be a delegate at that year's Republican convention, while the movie introducing the president was narrated by John Wayne.
North Carolina is an important state and the Democrats have acknowledged that by choosing it as the site of their convention next year when President Obama will be officially chosen as candidate.
Reagan did not, and while he failed to win the nomination at the Republican convention that year against incumbent President Gerald Ford, the campaign positioned the former California governor for his successful run in 1980.
McCain apologized for not accepting an invitation to the convention last year, which came at a time when his campaign was on shaky ground, and thanked the group for inviting him again before offering up praise for Obama.
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In August 1996, not long before President Clinton was to come to Chicago for that year's Democratic convention, Senator Moseley-Braun made a freelance trip to Nigeria to meet General Sani Abacha, the head of a military regime that had jailed the winner of an election and executed political opponents.
All will gather at its Headquarters in Paris, on 19 and 20 September 2013, to take part in the 4th session of the Conference of Parties to the Convention, which will amend in particular, as every year, Annex I of the Convention related to the list of prohibited substances and methods.
This year's Democratic National Convention in Denver, Aug. 25-28, and the Republican National Convention in Minneapolis-St.
But in a high-drama moment last year at the Democratic National Convention, both Clintons announced their wholehearted support for their party's nominee.
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Small Business Administrator Karen Mills, speaking earlier this year at the Democratic National Convention, painted a fairly bright picture for small business at least better than it was in 2009.
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