Last night I checked out the opening party for the 330, 000 sq-ft Mercedes-Benz Manhattan dealership.
U.K. designers including Burberry's Christopher Bailey, Matthew Williamson, Giles Deacon and Richard Nicoll created dresses for the opening party, dressing the likes of Li Na (Deacon) and Ana Ivanovic (Williamson).
Pittsburgh's Andy Warhol Museum (www.warhol.org) is celebrating its 15th anniversary this year, kicking it off with a 24-hour opening party for a Marilyn Monroe exhibit that runs through early January.
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Though PULSE is a smallish fair for lesser-known exhibitors, its opening party is a true microcosm of the art world: the art-lovers are easily identifiable by their enthusiasm and sometimes by their haircuts, which, depending on the degree of asymmetry, advertise that the individual operates in a realm where flourishes of this sort are not just acceptable but hallmarks of authenticity.
Opening the party's spring conference in Nottingham, party leader Natalie Bennett said Labour had "utterly ignored the views of millions" when it declared war just under 10 years ago.
The Lib Dems have also been opening up their party structures and meetings to non-members.
Mexico's conservative opposition, the National Action Party, largely favors a broader opening of the energy business to private investment, while the leftist Party of the Democratic Revolution has proposed a more limited opening for areas like refining.
That gives Labour an opening: though the party actually backed AV in its 2010 election manifesto, it now opposes any bill that involves what it calls gerrymandering.
They were opening an invitation to a party where they might not be quite welcome.
He added that it illustrates there is "a huge fissure opening up in the Tory party".
Brief opening statements by all three party leaders would be followed by a debate between Mr Major and Mr Blair.
Wednesday's votes completed each party's opening bid in what is sure to be a frenzied legislative negotiating session after the November vote.
And she rejected suggestions that her pupils had been used as "pawns" in the opening gambits of the Labour Party's election campaign.
For one thing, cracks may be opening within the Basque Nationalist Party.
The private party celebrated the opening of a third Dash boutique, a clothing store with locations in Los Angeles and Miami, by Kardashian sisters Kourtney, Kim and Khloe.
Wednesday's votes were primarily about political positioning in the heat of the 2012 election season, as well each party's opening bid in what is sure to be a frenzied legislative negotiating session this autumn.
The situation reached a boiling point in the 1970s, when in the aftermath of Watergate, reformers transformed the system by weakening committee chairs, empowering party leaders and opening up the legislative process through sunshine rules and more.
Opening a debate secured by his party on the subject, on 22 November 2011, Mr Dodds fiercely rejected David Cameron's comments that the coalition was only following the previous government's policy.
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Mr Kennedy, who made a brief stopover at Cardiff International Airport during the campaign's opening week, will be launching his party's student manifesto in Cardiff later.
But the actions of the Republican National Committee in recent days offer a telling glimpse at what the party sees as its best opening heading into the 2010 midterm cycles.
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Opening the four-day conference, party chairman Grant Shapps suggested the Conservatives had been too "shy" about trumpeting what they had done to support low and middle-income earners in tough times.
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Earlier this month, during the opening rounds of the election for their new party chairman, all the candidates, without exception, named Ronald Reagan as their favourite president.
Opposition parties, led by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), say opening the retail sector to foreign direct investment will put tens of thousands of small businesses and corner shops out of business.
When we saw that the party was getting bigger, we started opening up extra rooms for our guests to kind of spill over into.
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His Republican Party stood for opportunity for all, for opening the doors of public school education to every American child.
At launch, Google is also opening Buzz as broadly as it can to third-party developers in hopes of making it more attractive to users.
This afternoon William Hague spoke of the "great test of this generation" in a speech which was much more serious than the one his party's grown used to on the opening day of their conference.
Plenty remember Cuba's first, limited opening to private enterprise in the 1990s (following the fourth party congress, in 1991), when people were allowed to let out rooms and run their own restaurants.
Opening the Labour-led debate, Ms Eagle said her party would introduce a "strict cap" on fare increases, and would consider simplifying fare structures and introducing a "single national definition" for peak times.
The states could conduct a cheaper vote by mail, but VandeHei wouldn't be surprised if a wealthy donor outside the party leadership stepped up to foot the bill for opening the polling places.
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