• Last night I checked out the opening party for the 330, 000 sq-ft Mercedes-Benz Manhattan dealership.

    FORBES: Mercedes-Benz Opens Manhattan Flagship Dealer

  • 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).

    WSJ: Tina Gaudoin on Style: Serving an Ace on the Courts

  • 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.

    WSJ: Mexico Sees Energy as Key to Reset Economy

  • 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.

    FORBES: Dash Opening: Kardashian Sisters Take New York

  • 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.

    BBC: Natalie Bennett

  • 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.

    CNN: Gridlock in Congress? Blame the GOP

  • 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.

    BBC: India orders probe into Walmart lobbying

  • He added that it illustrates there is "a huge fissure opening up in the Tory party".

    BBC: EU referendum proves battleground

  • And she rejected suggestions that her pupils had been used as "pawns" in the opening gambits of the Labour Party's election campaign.

    BBC: 'Panto' politics appals head

  • For one thing, cracks may be opening within the Basque Nationalist Party.

    ECONOMIST: Spain

  • 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.

    ECONOMIST: Voting reform

  • 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.

    CNN: King: GOP sees fertile ground in taxes, pocketbook issues

  • 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.

    BBC: David Cameron to focus on 'what really matters'

  • 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.

    BBC: Conservative conference: Cameron rules out 'mansion tax'

  • It was just four weeks ago that Bachmann stood alone as the Iowa front-runner and the darling of both tea party activists and social conservatives who typically attend the caucuses, the opening act of the Republican nomination fight.

    CNN: Bachmann faces complications in Iowa

  • The Lib Dems have also been opening up their party structures and meetings to non-members.

    BBC: Can UK political parties be saved from extinction?

  • 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.

    ECONOMIST: Lexington

  • When we saw that the party was getting bigger, we started opening up extra rooms for our guests to kind of spill over into.

    FORBES: Excerpt: 'Make Something People Love' by Alexis Ohanian

  • 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.

    ECONOMIST: Debating what to covet with unlimited funds

  • Yes, I know that Boehner has himself to blame for the role he played in opening the doors of Congress to the unyielding and unreasonable Members swept into office by the Tea Party rebellion in 2010.

    FORBES: It Sucks To Be John Boehner

  • 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.

    BBC: Kennedy's '100% backing' for German

  • 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.

    BBC: DUP blasts government over cuts to winter fuel payments

  • 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.

    ECONOMIST: Reform in Cuba

  • 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.

    BBC: Labour warn of steep rail fare rises for commuters

  • 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.

    NPR: Commenter: Obama Rolling Toward Mississippi

  • 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.

    CNN: Senate passes Democratic tax plan, rejects GOP version

  • His Republican Party stood for opportunity for all, for opening the doors of public school education to every American child.

    CNN: Transcript: Jeffords statement

  • Berliners were only just opening the bottles of sparkling Sekt at the beginning of a street party that would last for days.

    BBC: How a blunder finished off the Wall

  • Minnesota Twins catcher Joe Mauer and Phillies Ryan Howard got the party started in the beginning of the year with huge deals before opening day.

    FORBES: Cliff Lee Contract Is More Proof How Flush MLB Is

  • Rooney levelled the scores again on the half-hour mark before Robin van Persie joined the party with a cool finish in the 34th minute to complete a breathless opening period.

    CNN: Chelsea collapse heaps pressure on Benitez

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