Image: Westinhouse_Family. jpg | Westinghouse Family memorial, February 2007

Ramaz Upper school students have also succeeded in numerous academic competitions in both the arts and sciences, including the 2004-2005 Siemens Westinghouse Competition and the 2007 NCTE Achievement Awards in Writing.

On December 24, 2007, the Del Valle family announced they had reached a settlement with Power Fasteners that would pay the family $ 6 million.

However, in late 2006 and early 2007 the rate of attrition reached new proportions, and the term colony collapse disorder was coined to describe the sudden disappearances.

Air strips on the other islands of Brava and Santo Antão are closed ( 2007 ) and can only be reached by ferry services from other islands.

The overall trade balance for August 2012 was a surplus of almost 390 million dollars for the first six months of 2012, a huge figure compared with that of 2007, which reached only $ 5. 7 million ; the surplus had risen by about 425 million compared to 2006.

In 2005 – 06 this increased to 674 entrants, in 2006 – 07 to 687, in 2007 – 08 to 731 clubs, and for the 2008 – 09 and 2009 – 10 competitions it reached 762.

Based on the economic reforms, Georgian economy has been diversified showing an upward tendency with average 10 % of annual GDP real growth in 2004-2007 and reached the highest level – 12. 3 percent in 2007.

On 30 November 2007 the 27 EU transportation ministers involved reached an agreement that it should be operational by 2013, but later press releases suggest it was delayed to 2014.

Although a decision was yet to be reached, on 13 July 2007 EU countries discussed cutting € 548m ($ 755m, £ 370m ) from the union's competitiveness budget for the following year and shifting some of that cash to other parts of the financing pot, a move that could meet part of the cost of the union's Galileo satellite navigation system.

In April 2007, the college reached a settlement with CareerLink in U. S. District Court in Pittsburgh.

Although the trial was scheduled to start Monday, April 30, 2007 in U. S. District Court in San Francisco, the parties announced on April 25, 2007 that a settlement had been reached.

The nominal GDP had reached $ 55. 4 billion by 2007 due to increase in oil output as well as international prices.

A French TGV holds the world speed record for the fastest wheeled train, having reached on 3 April 2007.

Unemployment in 1999 averaged less than 2. 8 % of the work force, but reached 4. 4 % by 2007.

The club reached the 2007 UEFA Champions League Final against Milan, as it had in 2005, but this time Liverpool lost 2 – 1.

Foreign direct investment ( FDI ) has picked up and is estimated to have reached 12 percent of GDP in 2007, compared with 7 percent in 2006.

This cleared the way for the Twins to either be relocated or disbanded prior to the 2007 season if a new deal was not reached.

The last hurricane was category-one Hurricane Earl in September 2010, and the last tropical storm was Tropical Storm Noel in 2007 ( downgraded from Hurricane Noel by the time the storm reached Nova Scotia ).

Since then, a very similar agreement was reached on February 13, 2007, that includes normalizing US-North Korean and Japanese-North Korean diplomatic ties on the condition that North Korea freeze its Yongbyon nuclear facility.

The most recent was V1280 Scorpii which reached magnitude 3. 7 on 17 February 2007.

Ultimately the reduction-in-size target was reached in 2007.

Inflation in 2007 reached 6. 0 %.

They reached US $ 353 million in 2007 and US $ 597 million in 2008.

In 2007 electricity production rose to 70 TWh, and exports reached 64 TWh which put Paraguay in second place worldwide as an exporter of electrical power ( And in the first place as a net exporter since France, the Number one exporter in the World with 67 TWh, also imports 10 TWh, while Paraguay does not import any ).

Inflation in 2006 was the lowest in Latin America at only 1. 8 %, but increased in 2007 as oil and commodity prices rose ; in the first half of 2008, it had reached about 5. 5 %.

However, following NTL's acquisition of Virgin Mobile, the NTL and Telewest services were rebranded Virgin Media on February 8, 2007, creating a single cable operator covering more than 95 % of the UK cable market.

The world's largest derivatives exchanges ( by number of transactions ) are the Korea Exchange ( which lists KOSPI Index Futures & Options ), Eurex ( which lists a wide range of European products such as interest rate & index products ), and CME Group ( made up of the 2007 merger of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange and the Chicago Board of Trade and the 2008 acquisition of the New York Mercantile Exchange ).

In 2007, Bank of America announced that it would commit $ 25 billion to community development in Michigan following its acquisition of LaSalle Bank in Troy.

Myers and Davis ( 2007 ) describe the acquisition of fear as when a conditioned stimulus ( e. g., a distinctive place ) is paired with an aversive unconditioned stimulus ( e. g. a electric shock ) to an end result in which the subject exhibits a conditioned feared response to the distinctive place ( CS + UCS = CR ).

On February 5, 2007, State Street announced the nearly $ 4. 5 billion acquisition of Investors Financial Services, parent of principal subsidiary custodian bank Investors Bank & Trust.

From its 2007 acquisition of 100 percent ownership of H3C Technologies Co., Limited ( H3C ) — initially a joint venture with China-based Huawei Technologies — 3Com achieved a leading market presence in China, and a significant networking market share in Europe, Asia, and the Americas.

On January 24, 2007, developer MumboJumbo announced the acquisition of Ritual Entertainment.

Since the 2007 acquisition of A-Channel by CTVglobemedia as part of the takeover of CHUM Limited, media analysts had speculated that CTV may potentially extend its market-leading CTV brand to that network.

According to a report issued in 2007 by the Basque Court of Auditors, the museum paid more than US $ 27 million for the acquisition of art between 2002 and 2005, including Serra's ' The Matter of Time ' for the cavernous ground-floor gallery.

On July 28, 2007, Carlyle announced the acquisition of Applus + from its shareholders Agbar, Unión Fenosa and Caja Madrid for an enterprise value of € 1, 480 million.

On December 13, 2007, shareholders representing more than 60 percent of Dow Jones's voting stock approved the company's acquisition by News Corp.

The company's planned and eventual acquisition by News Corp. in 2007 led to significant media criticism and discussion about whether the news pages would exhibit a rightward slant under Rupert Murdoch.

* April 2007: EPIC, along with the Center for Digital Democracy and U. S. PIRG, filed a complaint with the Federal Trade Commission, urging the Commission to open an investigation into the proposed acquisition of DoubleClick by Google.

In April 2007, Essential Aircraft Maintenance Services ( EAMS ) has been established by LD Equity 2 based on the acquisition of Sterling ’ s aircraft maintenance department.

Universal Music Group owns a music publisher, Universal Music Publishing Group, which became the world's largest following the 2007 acquisition of BMG Music Publishing.

On June 25, 2007, Vivendi completed its € 1. 63 billion ($ 2. 4 billion ) purchase of BMG Music Publishing, after receiving European Union regulatory approval, having announced the acquisition on September 6, 2006.

These steps included the acquisition on June 2, 2008 of substantially all of the assets of the Pennsylvania Brewery from Diageo North America, Inc. From 2007 to 2009, core product volume brewed at company-owned breweries increased from approximately 35 % to over 95 %.

The FSA has been held by some observers to be weak and inactive in allowing irresponsible banking to precipitate the credit crunch which commenced in 2007, and which has involved the shrinking of the UK housing market, increasing unemployment ( especially in the financial and building sectors ), the public acquisition of Northern Rock in mid-February 2008, and the takeover of HBOS by Lloyds TSB.

On October 9, 2007, NBC Universal announced that they had put WKAQ-TV up for sale, following its acquisition of Oxygen Media.

On June 15, 2007, private equity firm Quadrangle Group, along with long-time media executive Kent Brownridge, announced the acquisition of the parent company of Maxim, Blender, Stuff and MaximOnline. com.

On August 24, 2008, the team's General Manager, Eric Tillman, announced the acquisition of Quarterback Michael Bishop, the Toronto Argonauts backup quarterback at the time of the trade, who went 11 – 1 as a starter for the Argonauts in 2007.

Interplay rebounded following the acquisition of the Fallout IP by Bethesda Softworks in 2007 with Interplay back-licensing the rights to the MMOG, Fallout Online.

In late 2007, it acquired the MGE Office Protection Systems division of Schneider Electric, as a result of Schneider's acquisition of APC.

Acquicor completed the acquisition of Jazz Semiconductor in Newport Beach, California in early 2007 and has since been granted SEC approval.