• He made plans for a grand leaving party, and then cancelled it.

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  • By the same token, the odds have improved for Yasuo Fukuda, a grand old party man who belongs to the same faction as Mr Abe.

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  • His 80th birthday party, a grand picnic in the middle of the Champ de Mars, featured a cake depicting scenes from his life: a ten-metre tower of ganache and meringue decked in blown sugar, spun sugar and royal icing.

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  • It is a tough call for the Grand Old Party.

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  • At Cana, her son is like a stranger, "oddly formal and grand, " who seems to perform a wine-based party trick in front of drunks.

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  • So far Bersani has resisted Berlusconi's overtures for a "grand coalition" with his own party, which combines heirs of Italy's former Communists with more centrist forces.

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  • Considering that women make up more than half of the electorate and more than half the voters, it is amazing that the Republicans have taken a path toward really being the Grand OLD Party.

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  • Mr Kim blames the opposition Grand National Party, which holds a majority in the assembly, for slowing down the pace of reform.

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  • After the 2008 poll he took the post of first deputy prime minister in a grand coalition with the Mongolian People's Revolutionary Party election-winners.

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  • Enrico Letta's new "grand coalition" government - a hybrid mixture of party bigwigs, technical experts, and an unusually high number of women ministers - has been sworn in at Rome's presidential palace and is expected to get an early confidence vote in parliament.

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  • Other automakers may have beaten Audi to the supersized-SUV party, but this late arrival makes a grand entrance.

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  • On Oct. 8, the day Megawati opened the congress before tens of thousands of red-clad supporters on a blistering field in the beach resort of Sanur, Bali helped pull off exactly what the PDI team wanted: a grand political spectacle to punctuate Megawati's transformation from party outcast to presidential contender.

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  • Before this month's Chinese Grand Prix the FIA announced a tender for "a third-party supplier of engines and transmission systems" to be used by all teams in 2010, 2011 and 2012.

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  • When Cantor was aligning himself with the Tea Party right, and Boehner was trying to reach a Grand Bargain with the White House, Boehner deputized Cantor to enter into budget negotiations with Vice-President Joe Biden.

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  • Carter is one of 17 players in the current squad who also featured on the last grand slam tour in 2005, only the second time a New Zealand party had beaten England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales on the same tour, following the successful 1978 All Blacks.

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  • There is talk of a joint democracy campaign by Mr Sharif's party and the 17-party Grand Democratic Alliance.

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  • Without this regional party, Handelsblatt, a business daily, wrote last week, the grand coalition would have had a more successful first year.

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  • As the game wore on the visitors enjoyed increasing possession but they rarely threatened to score and their Grand Slam hopes had disappeared long before the final whistle sounded to spark a party in Dublin.

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  • The voters showed political independence and a willingness to make judgments apart from party, but it's impossible to draw grand conclusions about ideology, Al Gore, control of Congress or HMO reform from these outcomes.

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  • The indictment, from a grand jury in White Plains, alleges Smith schemed with New York City Councilman Daniel Halloran to bribe Republican party leaders.

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