But as soon as it opened, it became one of the more popular attractions in Hong Kong, and developers soon followed.

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As soon as it opened on 29 November the complaints flooded in to trading standards.

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The hotel -- with a tower topped by a sharply pitched pyramidal roof -- became the Art Deco trendsetter for Shanghai as soon as it opened its doors in 1929.

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But surprisingly to most, it became so successful it soon opened two other locations in Ireland, as well as one in London and most recently one in New York.

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And I saw it as soon as I opened the box, I got a ton of manufacturing errors in watches, and I was sitting on top of thousands of dollars of just trash as far as I was concerned.

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It has had 80, 000 visitors since it opened, and will soon travel to Canada and the United States.

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Soon after the play opened on Broadway, co-producer Scott Rudin asked him to turn it into a film, which starred Meryl Streep as Sister Aloysius and Philip Seymour Hoffman as Father Flynn, and invited him to direct.

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Niconchuk signed up for Facebook in 2005, just after it opened to high school students, and started searching for college friends as soon as he received his acceptance to Tufts.

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