Opened
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In real life, Mike Tyson's first defeat at the hands of Buster Douglas came in a bout promoted by Don King and took place in the Tokyodome a mere 10 months before the film opened.
Source: Film / Rocky V - By 1959 he had been promoted to musical director for television at 20th Century Fox which opened the doors to feature films.
Source: Music / Lionel Newman -
In the Unseen University of the Discworld, because the number of people who can hold any rank in wizardly was fixed by tradition, nobody could be promoted unless a slot above them opened up through the death or promotion of a more senior wizard.
Source: Klingon Promotion
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