We are working for institutions that claim to open doors to career opportunities even as they etch contingency into their hiring practices.
Nick Compton staked his claim to open the batting in the first Test against India with a half-century as England drew their tour match with Mumbai A. After successive failures, Compton compiled 64 not out from 162 balls as England reached 149-2 in their second innings, with Ian Bell 28 not out.
He tells his owners when their horses might be better suited to a lesser circuit, and drops the ones he can into claiming races to open up stalls in his barn.
The owner, who claims to have opened the restaurant 40 years ago, says he does not know who is buried there.
The largest party so far, headed by Sheikh Ahmed Abu Risha, a tribal leader from Ramadi, claims to have opened 230 offices across Iraq and signed up 400,000 members.
Pierre is a true believer in hospitality tourism and claims to have opened his home to "hundreds and hundreds" of travellers, both here and in France.
The Australian government claims to have opened the Nauru centre, given detainees freedom, and is working towards freeing all children from detention everywhere.
A year later, Lawson launched the Global Warming Policy Foundation, an educational charity which claims to be "open-minded on the contested science of global warming" but "deeply concerned about the costs and other implications of many of the policies currently being advocated".
The two-day trilateral meeting hosted by the Pakistani president, Asif Ali Zardari, comes as his Afghan counterpart, Hamid Karzai, claims to have opened direct discussions with the Taliban for the first time in the 11-year-old insurgency.
Into this opening groups like Integrion, partly owned by a consortium of banks, and Security First (which claims to have opened the first Internet bank, Security First National Bank, recently sold to the Royal Bank of Canada) have come charging.
