11.   Students also organize cocktail receptions and gourmet meals, each with a theme, and a series of seminars.

12.   That means it is OK for lawmakers and staffers to graze the tables at cocktail receptions.

13.   The Astaires, for example, which celebrate dancing on Broadway, begin at noon Friday with a cocktail reception.

14.   The cocktail reception and barbecue was held at a private home in Ladue, an affluent St. Louis suburb.

15.   The evening began with a cocktail reception and a lively talk by artist Judy Pfaff, whose current Rose exhibition includes a huge felled tree.

16.   The five-day event, which begins on Thursday, will include hundreds of workshops, panel discussions, cocktail receptions and private chats.

17.   The governor will be constantly entertaining, his social calendar booked with dinners, parties and cocktail receptions.

18.   Then came one final cocktail reception, and that was it.

19.   WILLIE HIMSELF was on the town Tuesday night, he dropped by the VIP cocktail reception at Frette, the new luxury bed-linen shop on Geary.

20.   A cocktail reception had been held at the museum the previous night.