* Boulard, Garry, The Swing Around the Circle — Andrew Johnson and the Train Ride that Destroyed a Presidency ( 2008 ) ISBN 978-1-4401-0239-4

* Verizon Wireless — Formerly operating an AMPS network, on February 18, 2008, Verizon has discontinued all AMPS service.

A 2008 Senate investigation found that Biederman also received $ 1. 6 million in speaking and consulting fees between 2000 and 2007 — some of them undisclosed to Harvard — from companies including makers of antipsychotic drugs prescribed for children with bipolar disorder.

He was a brilliant guy — but a little screwed up ," Frazetta has said ( from The Comic Art of Frank Frazetta, 2008 ).

Today the harmonized ISO / IEC 80000-13: 2008 – Quantities and units — Part 13: Information science and technology standard cancels and replaces subclauses 3. 8 and 3. 9 of IEC 60027-2: 2005, namely those related to Information theory and Prefixes for binary multiples.

In a letter dated 18 February 2008, Castro announced that he would not accept the positions of president and commander in chief at the 24 February 2008 National Assembly meetings, saying " I will not aspire nor accept — I repeat I will not aspire or accept — the post of President of the Council of State and Commander in Chief.

On 22 November 2008 Charlton suffered a 2 – 5 loss to Sheffield United at home, which meant that the club had gone eight successive games without a win and had slipped into the relegation zone — particularly disastrous considering they were among the pre-season favourites for promotion.

# This is the Part Where You Pretend to Add Value — March 26, 2007 to January 5, 2008

# Freedom's Just Another Word for People Finding Out You're Useless — January 6, 2008 to October 12, 2008

# 14 Years of Loyal Service in a Fabric-Covered Box — October 13, 2008 to July 25, 2009

* Dilbert Sudoku Comic Digest: 200 Puzzles Plus 50 Classic Dilbert Cartoons — 2008 ; ISBN 0-7407-7250-3

* Dilbert 2. 0: 20 Years of Dilbert — 2008 ; 576 pages, ≈ 6500 strips, and Scott Adams ' notes from 1989 to 2008.

Ecuador's president Rafael Correa said March 3, 2008 that a deal to release political prisoners — including former Colombian Sen. Ingrid Betancourt -- was nearly complete before the March 1, 2008 Colombian raid into his country.

* 2008 — Bill Nye ( the Science Guy )

The present-day figure of about 4. 6 million foreign residents, that make up some 8 % of the total population, include more than half a million children born in Italy to foreign nationals — second generation immigrants, but exclude foreign nationals who have subsequently acquired Italian nationality ; this applied to 53, 696 people in 2008.

For example, in 2007 RFC 3700 was an Internet Standard — STD 1 — and in May 2008 it was replaced with RFC 5000, so RFC 3700 changed to Historic status, and STD 1 is RFC 5000.

* Wolfenstein RPG — Electronic Arts ( 2008 )

The most successful weekday show was Aigia Fuxia shown on ANT1 Cyprus ( 2008 – 2010 ).

A Greek adaptation was broadcast on ANT1 in 2007 and 2008.

In 2008, ANT1 Cyprus, produced the series in a Cypriot version called Η ζωή είναι ωραία ( I zoi ine orea-Life is wonderful ).

On August 22, 2008, Aon announced that it had acquired London-based Benfield Group.

MSP Alex Johnstone wrote " Clearly, the Declaration of Arbroath is a literary work of outstanding universal significance by any stretch of the imagination " In 2008, the Campaign Group Chairman, Councillor Jim Millar launched a public petition to reinforce the bid explaining " We're simply asking people to, local people especially, to sign up to the campaign to have the Declaration of Arbroath and Arbroath Abbey recognised by the United Nations.

Major Dutch-language weekly magazines in 2008 are Kerk en Leven ( Drukkerij en Uitgeverij Halewijn ) ( 409, 817 ), Dag Allemaal ( 402, 097 ), HUMO ( 227, 614 ), Libelle ( magazine ) ( Sanoma Belgium ) ( 216, 506 ), TV-Blad ( 158, 283 ), Story ( Belgian magazine ) ( Sanoma Belgium ) ( 159, 833 ), Plus Magazine ( Belgium ) ( 134, 242 ), TV-Familie / Blik ( 129, 328 ), Flair ( magazine ) ( Sanoma Belgium ) ( 126, 831 ), Knack ( magazine ) ( Roularta Media Group ) ( 126, 646 ), Trends ( magazine ) ( Roularta Media Group ),'t Pallieterke, ....

Major French-language weekly magazines in 2008 are Trends / Tendance ( Roularta Media Group ), Le Vif / L ' Express ( Roularta Media Group ), Télé Moustique ( Sanoma Belgium ), Femmes d ' Aujourd ' hui ( Sanoma Belgium ), ....

The China Railway Seventh Group Co. Ltd will be in charge of the contract, under signed by the China Railway Engineering Corporation, with construction to be started from June 2008.

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 ).

* Development of other content distribution networks on the internet through P2PTV ; EBU Project Group D / P2P, from November 2007 to April 2008, with a trial of selected member channels, thanks to Octoshape's distribution platform.

For example, on September 16, 2008, the Federal Reserve Board authorized an $ 85 billion loan to stave off the bankruptcy of international insurance giant American International Group ( AIG ).

In 2004 development began on HTML5 in the Web Hypertext Application Technology Working Group ( WHATWG ), which became a joint deliverable with the W3C in 2008.

In 2008 de Garis received a 3 million Chinese yuan grant ( around $ 436, 000 ) to build an artificial brain for China ( the China-Brain Project ), as part of the Brain Builder Group at Wuhan University.

Since 2008 a take-over is in progress: the Schaeffler Group from Herzogenaurach ( Bavaria ) holds the majority of the stock but were required due to the financial crisis to deposit the options as securities at banks.

Japanese investment in Cambodia includes Phnom Penh Commercial Bank, a joint venture of Hyundai Switzerland and Japanese SBI Group, opened in 2008.

Jakarta is listed as a global city in the 2008 Globalization and World Cities Study Group and Network ( GaWC ) research.

" On June 17, 2008, Viacom formed the Nickelodeon Kids & Family Virtual Worlds Group to " encompass all paid and subscription gaming initiatives across all relevant platforms ", including Neopets.

According to OHCHR, the Oromia Support Group ( OSG ) recorded 594 extra-judicial killings of Oromos by Ethiopian government security forces and 43 disappearances in custody between 2005 and August 2008.

According to an Environmental Working Group analysis of USDA and FDA pesticide residue tests performed from 2000 through 2008, 84 % of the 2, 216 tested potato samples contained detectable traces of at least one pesticide.

* Tom Cooper, Sudan, Civil War since 1955 Air Combat Information Group, Feb 10, 2008

According to the 2009 Syria Report of the Oxford Business Group, the oil sector accounted for 23 % of government revenues, 20 % of exports, and 22 % of GDP in 2008.

In the fall of 2008, Scientific American was put under the control of Nature Publishing Group, a division of Holtzbrinck.

In December 2008, the Austin Group published a new major revision, known as POSIX: 2008 ( formally: IEEE Std 1003. 1-2008 ).

TiVo was launched in Australia in July 2008 by Hybrid Television Services, a company owned by Australia's Seven Media Group and New Zealand's TVNZ.

The OSP signed four Memorandums of Understanding with leading companies from Europe and Singapore at the Paris Eurosatory 2008 defense exhibition on Junen 20th, Rheinmetall Group and Diehl Defence Holding of Germany, Singapore Technologies Engineering ( ST Engg ), and Thales of France.