*** The kick-off of the WIE event was a fashion show: The parade of women wearing red was an apt metaphor for the ensuing days of the WIE Symposium: Stylish women boldly standing up for themselves and learning how to make the kind of difference in the world that they want to make.
More than 40,000 fans are expected to watch the kick-off of the world's biggest sporting event as Great Britain take on New Zealand in women's football at the Millennium Stadium.
A couple of weeks back, I had the pleasure and privilege of taking my Wide Glide on the "Law Ride" as the kick-off event of National Police Week.
The Python Challenge starts Saturday at 10 a.m. with a kick-off event of training and talks on identifying and handling pythons at the University of Florida's Fort Lauderdale Research and Education Center in Davie.
The Iowa caucuses, the kick-off event of the US presidential primary season, have revealed much but settled nothing.
Scholars Are Doing It For Themselves", our kick-off event of the academic year in our Research Without Borders panel discussion series.
It was the kick-off event of an ambitious project to find solutions to the groundwater crisis in Gujarat, funded by the PepsiCo Foundation.
Musa and his associates--pianist Art Hirahara, bassist Bobby Brennan and drummer Jonathan Chengary, all fellow students at CalArts in Valencia--were performing at Catalina in the kick-off event of the Young Artists Concert Series, which will offer monthly showcase performances by up-and-coming jazz players.
One of the kick-off events of New York Fashion Week, the runway presentation drew a crowd-filling room of around 400 journalists, store buyers, a sprinkling of celebrities (Alan Cumming, Carolina Bermudez, Michael Musto) and the just-plain-curious, all trying their best to look nonchalant as they drank cocktails and nibbled on mini-burgers while waiting for the nearly naked men to show up.
As ideas started flowing during this initial, packed, 90-minute kick-off event, some of the pervasive challenges in conducting business in emerging markets and in scaling social and commercial interventions surfaced.
At the kick-off event in front of the White House, American Humanist Association lobbyist Mathew Bulger said, "For too long, advocates for children have been promised action, and been told to wait for justice to occur.
