It is already getting noticed: At a reception a few days earlier newly installed World Bank President Paul Wolfowitz dropped by.
These are often as small as an invitation to a reception, a discount in a museum shop or a backstage tour at the Royal Opera House.
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If it opens in September 2013, The Wells Free School will take 66 pupils in its first year to make up a reception, a year one and a year two.
On the rare occasions when Bruce, fresh from his helicopter or his Lamborghini, enters a reception with a girl or two on his arm, he looks deeply uncomfortable, and Nolan, as if sharing that unease, tends to hurry him through the moment.
Mr Allawi also got a warm reception during a recent tour of eight Arab capitals.
Economou rented the Library of Congress earlier this year for a glittering reception after a conference at which speakers included U.S. Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer.
The agenda was clear: Sprint had a new music phone designed by Samsung, and the group was hoping for a positive reception from a man who has become to technology what Brooks Atkinson once was to the New York theatre someone whose judgment can ratify years of effort or sink the show.
He has also spent a fair amount polishing H5's image: The firm's "advisory board" includes former Harvard Law School professor Arthur Miller and John Seely Brown, onetime chief scientist at Xerox Corp. (nyse: XRX - news - people ) Economou rented the Library of Congress earlier this year for a glittering reception after a conference at which speakers included U.S. Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer.
Despite a lukewarm press reception and a launch line-up that consists of a slew of ports of games already out on PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360, gamers have gobbled up every pre-order option from retailers like Best Buy, GameStop and Walmart.
The prince attended a reception before taking a walking tour of Poundbury with invited guests.
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But late Tuesday, it faced a more-hostile reception at a town park in northern Uganda, where Mr. Kony based his two-decade insurgency until 2005.
Despite his predictions of a hostile reception from home fans, Clarke was given a warm reception from the Wellington crowd when he joined Katich at the crease.
Inside the studio is one large room with a smaller reception area and a concrete floor.
The lucky ones may get a place in a reception center run by a charity.
So when Greenberg bumped into him at a reception in New York a few months ago, he was ready to pounce.
Ronaldo received a rapturous reception, despite a summer of speculation linking him with a move to Real Madrid, and he was quickly a threat with a volley that worried keeper Lopez.
Usually the scattering of energy is considered a nuisance -- whether driving in fog or poor reception from a cell phone tower -- and most techniques either try to avoid it (by turning on fog lights) or reduce the impact of scattering (by selecting energy for the phone only from direct paths).
On a tour of the palace's school, Charles met pupils in a reception class, before planting a tree in the garden to mark his visit.
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If people are in a poor network reception area, they no longer have to manually resubmit their tags when they get to a better reception area.
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Mr Maazel told reporters that the Philharmonic had not been given such an enthusiastic reception in a long time.
This will create more display space, room for special exhibitions, an improved shop and reception and a tea room.
Mr France was waved through at reception by a police officer, he says.
The showroom also has a lifelike replica of an Airbus Corporate Jet Interior so he can show customers a top-of-the-range interior or just host a small reception when he closes a deal.
Bush can expect a warm reception from Berlusconi, a staunch U.S. supporter who committed Italian troops to Iraq in the aftermath of the invasion and who returned to power in elections this year.
There was a reception to promote Welsh food - a case of the other type of muscles, from the Menai Straits, in Brussels - and a chance to remind his audience why Mr Jones was really there.
Her reception was a thank you for heading a campaign that persuaded the British government to change its mind and allow United Kingdom residency to Nepali Gurkhas who had served in the British army but had retired before 1997.
Calhoun, in his first year of retirement after a career that included three national championships, headed back to a reception he had ducked out of for a while.
Members of the three armed services, military bands and huge crowds of flag-waving well-wishers lined the route as the royals made their way from a reception in the City of London to a formal lunch at Westminster Hall.
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Following the service, there will be a reception at the nearby medieval Guildhall for about a thousand people including friends, family and representatives of British public life.
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The two day program kicked off Thursday afternoon with a private reception at 595 North, a modern event space in the heart of midtown Atlanta, where finalists met one another and mingled with judges over finger foods and drinks.
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