* JPT Staff, Makoto Nakajima ( 2008 ).

In March 2008, ambassador Gustavo Machin Gomez met General Tariq Majid, the Chairman of Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee ( CJCSC ) at Joint Staff Headquarters and discussed issues related to military cooperation.

On May 4, 2008, while Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Admiral Mike Mullen addressed the graduating cadets at West Point, a cadet asked what would happen if the next administration were supportive of legislation allowing gays to serve openly.

* 2008 – Kathy Staff, British actress ( b. 1928 )

* 1944 – Hamilton Jordan, American White House Chief of Staff ( d. 2008 )

* Kathy Staff ( 1928 – 2008 ), English actress who portrayed Nora Batty in Last of the Summer Wine

Post-retirement, Sampras has used a slightly modified Pro Staff Tour 90 and, from 2008, a new version of the original Pro Staff, produced with in-between head size of 88 square inches and heavier weight at 349 grams unstrung.

Staff Sergeant Travis Terpstra from Comanche Company 1-2 Stryker Cavalry Regiment, received the Bronze Star for valor in the Sadr City uprising April 2008.

Staff producer Hugh Mendl ( 1919 – 2008 ) worked for Decca for over 40 years and played a significant role in its success in the popular field from the 1950s to the late 1970s.

* 2008 Olympics cycling gold medal winner Jamie Staff who moved to Disley for access to Manchester Velodrome.

A fund-raising campaign called " Promise & Distinction " raised $ 730. 6 million as of October 3, 2008, increasing the university's total endowment to more than $ 1. 1 billion ; by March 2009, Yvette Jones, Tulane's Chief Operating Officer, told Tulane's Staff Advisory Council that the endowment " has lost close to 37 %", affected by the late-2000s recession.

Past honorees have included: Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz ( 2002 ), Senator Joe Lieberman ( 1997 ), Senator Max Cleland ( 2000 ), then-Defense Secretary Dick Cheney ( 1991 ), all three Secretaries of the U. S. Armed Services ( 2001 ), Congresswoman Jane Harman and Congressman Jim Saxton ( 2003 ), Indiana Senator Evan Bayh ( 2004 ), Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Peter Pace ( USMC ) ( 2005 ), Senator John McCain ( 2006 ), Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates ( 2007 ), Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Admiral Mike Mullen ( 2008 ), and ( 2009 ) all five chiefs of the U. S. Armed Forces and the Commander of the U. S. Special Operations Command ( U. S. Army Chief of Staff Gen. George W. Casey, Jr .; U. S. Marine Corps Commandant Gen. James T. Conway ; U. S. Navy Chief of Naval Operations Admiral Gary Roughead ; Coast Guard Commandant Adm. Thad W. Allen ; Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Norton A. Schwartz ; Commander of U. S. Special Operations Command U. S. Navy Adm. Eric T.

William Hamilton McWhorter Jordan ( September 21, 1944 – May 20, 2008 ) was Chief of Staff to President of the United States Jimmy Carter.

However, the town has since expanded far beyond its intended size into farmland to the south, and major expansion is now, as of 2008, under way ( Jennetts Park ) to the west of the town at Peacock Farm and on the site of the former RAF Staff College.

Army Vice Chief of Staff Gen. Richard A. Cody ( left ) and Installation Management Command Deputy Commander Maj. Gen. John A. Macdonald ( right ) present USAG-Yongsan officials with a third place trophy for the Fiscal 2008 Army Communities of Excellence competition 8 May at the Pentagon.

In 2008 Army Vice Chief of Staff Gen. Richard A. Cody recognized Yongsan Garrison as one of the top three U. S. Army Installations in the World and recognized the garrison by declaring it an Army Community of Excellence.

Edited and revised by CSL Staff, September 2002. http :// www. cslib. org / gov / baldwins. htm Accessed March 14, 2008

After being re-elected in 2008, Larson was elected chairman of the Caucus for the 111th Congress, after Emanuel was named White House Chief of Staff.

DNA Lounge won " Best Dance Club " in the San Francisco Bay Guardian's " Best of the Bay " readers ' poll in 2008, 2009, 2010 and, 2011, and " Best Bar Staff " in 2011.

* Cecilia Beaux's Contemporaries Judged Her to Be the Cat's Meow ; History Sees a Bit of a Chameleon, The Washington Post, March 9, 2008, washingtonpost. com

However, Doraemon: Nobita's Dinosaur 2006 ( The 26th film in the franchise ) got a private screening in Washington, D. C. in November 2008.

In both 2008 and 2010, Ellensburg was just slightly more Republican than the statewide average, making it one of the most Democratic cities in Eastern Washington.

Pertinent to a non-partisan study on the 2008 U. S. Presidential election, the Population Reference Bureau, a demographic research organization based in Washington, D. C., cited Generation X birth years as falling between 1965-1982.

In 2008, the U. S. Supreme Court overturned a Washington, D. C. law that required handguns to be locked or otherwise kept inoperative within the home, saying that this " makes it impossible for citizens to use them for the core lawful purpose of self-defense.

* Belize / Guatemala ICJ Compromis Signed at OAS in Washington, D. C. on 8 December 2008 and Compromis and Videos and U. S. Congratulations and U. K. Congratulations and Photographs and Compromis for Christmas of 8 December 2008 and Belize Leading Counsel of 19 December 2008

The Greens founded the first international chapter of a German political party in the U. S. on April 13, 2008 at the Goethe-Institut in Washington D. C. Its main goal is " to provide a platform for politically active and green-oriented German citizens, in and beyond Washington D. C., to discuss and actively participate in German Green politics.

They have entered two plays into the Capital Fringe Festival in Washington, D. C .. Their 2007 show, For Boston, won " Best Comedy ", and their second show, The Sticking Place, won " Best Overall " in 2008.

In July 2008, the Washington Times reported that nearly a fourth of the 540 Indian Parliament members faced criminal charges, " including human trafficking, immigration rackets, embezzlement, rape and even murder ".

Irradiation and the Death of Food, Food & Water Watch Press, Washington, DC, 2008.

The tribute was continued in 2008, when, during games on April 15, all members of the Mets, Cardinals, Washington Nationals, and Tampa Bay Rays wore Robinson's number 42.

In a July 28, 2008, op-ed in The Washington Times, he wrote that he regretted his youthful anti-war activism, calling it the result of " Marxist propaganda.

" On July 28, 2008, he wrote an editorial in The Washington Times critical of then-Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama.

It has helped to sponsor popular traveling exhibits, such as an early 2010s " King Tut " exhibit featuring magnificent artifacts from the tomb of the young Egyptian Pharaoh ; " The Cultural Treasures of Afghanistan " which opened in May 2008 and traveled to other cities for 18 months ; and an exhibition of China's Terracotta Warriors in its Washington headquarters in 2009 – 10.

Biden was elected Vice President of the United States in 2008 ; on 18 January 2009 Glenys Kinnock revealed on the BBC's Andrew Marr Show that she and Neil Kinnock had received a personal invitation from Biden to attend the inauguration of Barack Obama and Biden on 20 January 2009 at the United States Capitol in Washington.

The state of Washington, adopted a system virtually identical to Louisiana's in 2008, which came into effect after legal difficulties in 2010.

After Washington prosecutors showed " a renewed interest in the case in the final months of 2008 ," a federal grand jury was convened in January 2009 to hear evidence of Clemens ' possible perjury before Congress.

* 2008 – Following the bankruptcies of Lehman Brothers and Washington Mutual, The Dow Jones Industrial Average falls 777. 68 points, the largest single-day point loss in its history.

SU received the Sustainability Innovator Award in 2007 from the Sustainable Endowments Institute for SU's pre-consumer food waste composting program and the Green Washington Award in 2008 from Washington CEO Magazine for SU's sustainable landscape practices and pre-consumer food waste composting program.

Reviewing a March 2008 concert, The Washington Post described MacGowan as " puffy and paunchy ," but said the singer " still has a banshee wail to beat Howard Dean's, and the singer's abrasive growl is all a band this marvelous needs to give its amphetamine-spiked take on Irish folk a focal point.

*** Washington statehood 1999 – 2008 ( Proof Only )

Spacey at HBO Post Emmys Party, 2008

Post offices that are owned by Postbank and TNT Post have been earmarked for closure between 2008 and 2013.

On April 29, 2008 the New York Post reported that Clemens had relationships with at least two other women.

In 2008, the National Post and the Ottawa Citizen recognized UNB as being among the top three comprehensive research universities in Canada for the highest percentage growth of research income across a five-year period.

The 2008 Believe campaign results included Macy's collecting 1. 1 million letters from Santa Mail Red Letter boxes located in Macy's stores, that were then mailed to him through the United States Post Office " Operation Santa ", and Macy's making a matching $ 1 million US contribution to the Make-A-Wish Foundation for the letters collected by Macy's.

In 2008, a study carried out by the telecommunications arm of the Post Office found that " 404 " had become a slang synonym for " clueless " in the United Kingdom.

On 14 July 2006, he had a son, Jean, with French-Cambodian Helene Bizot ( not to be confused with Hélène Bizot ), according to the issue 3089 ( 31 July 2008 ) of Paris Match and the Phnom Penh Post.

* Gates Assails Pentagon on Resources for Battlefields Washington Post April 22, 2008

The Kyiv Post reported on 26 November 2008 that American citizen Robert Fletcher ( Robert T. Fletcher III ; aka " Rob ") was arrested by the SBU ( Ukraine State Police ) after being accused by Ukrainian investors of running a Ponzi scheme and associated pyramid scam netting US $ 20 million.

During the summer of 2008, The Washington Post ran a 13-part series billed, in part, as " a tale of the tabloid and mainstream press pack journalism that helped derail the investigation.

On June 30, 2008, Canada Post issued a postage stamp in its " Canadians in Hollywood " series to honour Norma Shearer, along with others for Raymond Burr, Marie Dressler, and Chief Dan George.

In 2008, Canada Post issued a postage stamp in its " Canadians in Hollywood " series featuring Burr.

On June 30, 2008, the Denver Post reported that 181 individuals, including police officers, paramedics, firefighters, utility workers, and railroad employees had been trained as Terrorism Liaison Officers to report suspicious information which could be signs of terrorist activity.

In August 2008, Lauper contributed an article titled " Hope " to The Huffington Post which encouraged Americans to vote for Barack Obama in the upcoming United States presidential election.

On October 17, 2008, The Post endorsed Barack Obama for President of the United States.

" In 2008, Thomas F. Roeser of the Chicago Daily Observer also mentioned competition from the Washington Times as a factor moving The Post to the right.

In a November 19, 2008 column, The Washington Post ombudsman Deborah Howell stated: " I'll bet that most Post journalists voted for Obama.

" Post Watch: Family Dynasty Continues with Katharine II ", Washingtonian, February 26, 2008.

It was formed on October 1, 2008 by the merger of Arkansas Post Girl

* Far-Reaching U. S. Plan Impaired N. Korea Deal, Glenn Kessler, Washington Post, September 26, 2008.