But there are also plenty of 18-year-olds who are itching to get the four-year party started.
Saturday Hassan, 30, of Sydenham, shot Darren and Junior Deslandes after being evicted from a new year party at the Newton Arms, Croydon.
Mr Brown said Mr Hassan had been at a New Year party at the pub, run by the Deslandes family, in Queen's Road.
Charlene Ellis, 18, and her friend Letisha Shakespeare, 17, died in a hail of machine gun bullets as they stood outside a new year party in Aston, Birmingham, on 2 January 2003.
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He was dancing on the beach at the time, at the tail end of the massive new year party on Haad Rin beach, which had attracted tens of thousands of mostly young foreign tourists.
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It follows the resignation of the party leader last year when the party's National Executive Committee (NEC) blocked councillors from taking part.
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This year the party invitations starting rolling in a full two months in advance.
In many ways, it really has become a four-year-party for a lot of students.
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After Mr Foss declared himself to be homosexual, he easily won election earlier this year as party boss in Oslo, the capital.
Mr. Carrion, a former Bronx borough president who won the endorsement this year of the Independence Party, left the Democratic Party last year.
In the first electoral test since Joerg Haider's party joined Austria's governing coalition earlier this year, the party slipped to 12.4% of the vote in the south-eastern province of Styria.
Sharon, who helped forge Likud, broke away from the party last year and announced a new centrist party called Kadima.
Mr Lloyd, chairman of the Parliamentary Labour Party since 2006 until earlier this year, is the party's candidate for the Greater Manchester area.
At Crocs, 65% of its colorful shoes are expected to be made in China this year through third-party manufacturers, down from 80% last year.
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Mr Hollande has promised to stand down as leader at next year's party congress.
Elections in Maharashtra are due later this year, and party leaders are worried about a poor showing.
And she and her sister, who lives with her, also recently threw a New Year's party at the apartment.
Mr Clegg won an internal battle at last year's party conference to put forward a tax-cutting agenda at the next election.
That was the year the tea party emerged on the national scene.
Last year, her party lost its majority in the Upper House after failing to hold on to another highly populated region, North Rhine-Westphalia.
Winding up his speech to the annual assembly of the United Malays National Organization (UMNO), the 70-year-old party chief lashed out against money politics.
Republicans developed their comeback strategy early in 2009, but it took another year before their party started to overcome Democrats in the fundraising race.
This year, tea party members supported legislation from Rep. Jeff Chapman, R-Brunswick, that would trim the utility's profits if it goes over budget building the plant.
One popular guessing game that lingered as the Democrats were preparing to take over the new Congress this year was what party Lieberman would align himself with.
At that year's party conference the questioning turned into a full frontal assault by Mr Willis on Labour's education funding as the Liberal Democrats sought to give themselves a distinctive edge.
Whatever the merits of that, it is a neat political move in an election year where his party, the CDU, could be undone at the polls if the Green Party performs well.
In the European elections in June, their ten-year-old party, Shooting, Fishing, Nature and Traditions, got 1.2m votes, almost 7% of the total, enough to give them six seats in the European Parliament.
His suggestions on expanding the types of candidates being fielded struck a chord with Tyson Greaves, a 63-year-old party member from San Jose who said pushing for diversity within the party is crucial.
Liberal Democrats could only stand and watch as a power base they had spent over a decade building up in Sheffield came crashing down after just one year of their party being in government at Westminster for the first time.
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