From January – September 2010, bilateral trade with the United States measured approximately $ 150 million, on track for about a 30 percent increase over 2009.

Hotels did not get that many in 2009, mostly due to the economic situation in the United States, and partially because of scares of drug-related violence.

On June 3, 2009, it was reported that Aon had signed a four year shirt sponsorship deal with English football giant Manchester United.

He is married to Hillary Rodham Clinton, who has served as the United States Secretary of State since 2009 and was a Senator from New York from 2001 to 2009.

In 2009, he was named United Nations Special Envoy to Haiti, and after the 2010 earthquake he teamed with George W. Bush to form the Clinton Bush Haiti Fund.

He was named United Nations Special Envoy to Haiti in 2009.

In 2009, transgenic maize was grown commercially in 11 countries, including the United States ( where 85 % of the maize crop was genetically modified ), Argentina ( 83 % GM ), Brazil ( 36 % GM ), South Africa ( 57 % GM ), Canada ( 84 % GM ), the Philippines ( 19 % GM ) and Spain ( 20 % GM ).

Frommer's, the American travel guidebook series, listed Belfast as the only United Kingdom destination in its Top 12 Destinations to Visit in 2009.

The United States is by far its largest trading partner, accounting for about 73 % of exports and 63 % of imports as of 2009.

Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper ( right ) and President of the United States | U. S. President Barack Obama ( left ) meet in Ottawa in February 2009

In the UK, since 2009, the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom has the authority to overrule and unify decisions of lower courts.

A new modern constitution, which devolved some authority from the United Kingdom to the Cayman Islands government, was passed by referendum on 20 May 2009.

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" Reflections on the ' New Qing History ' School in the United States ," Chinese Studies in History, Winter 2009 / 2010, Vol.

In 2009, for the first time in church history, more new members came from Africa than the United States.

Backyard croquet being played in rough grass with inexpensive equipment, United States, 2009

Fulham recorded four record attendances in the 2009 – 2010 season, in their 0 – 1 loss to Arsenal and their 3 – 1, 3 – 0 and 2 – 1 victories over Liverpool, Manchester United and Hamburg SV respectively, each of which drew full capacity crowds.

Matters did not improve under caretaker manager Phil Parkinson, and a 3 – 1 defeat at Sheffield United saw the Addicks four points adrift at the bottom of the Championship as 2009 dawned, under threat of their first relegation to English football's third tier for 29 years.

George Barna, a conservative Christian author and researcher, conducted a survey in the United States in 2009 that found gay and lesbian people having a Christian affiliation were more numerous than had been presumed.

On 31 May 2009 the United States sent the Nereus hybrid remotely operated vehicle ( HROV ) to the Challenger Deep.

* 2009 United Nations Climate Change Conference, held at the Bella Center in Copenhagen, Denmark

Relations between the United Kingdom and Ecuador were traditionally regarded as " low-key but cordial ", especially before the election of Rafael Correa ; the Prince of Wales and Duchess of Cornwall visited the country in 2009, as part of a tour celebrating the bicentenary of Charles Darwin.

In the United Kingdom, the pro-assisted dying group Dignity in Dying cite conflicting research on attitudes by doctors to assisted dying: with a 2009 Palliative Medicine-published survey showing 64 % support ( to 34 % oppose ) for assisted dying in cases where a patient has an incurable and painful disease, while 49 % of doctors in a study published in BMC Medical Ethics oppose changing the law on assisted dying to 39 % in favour.

Meanwhile the parties in the ED subgroup were growing restless and finally left following the 2009 elections, when the Czech Civic Democratic Party and United Kingdom Conservatives formed their own European Conservatives and Reformists group on 22 June 2009, abolishing the ED subgroup from that date.

As of 2009, HP Enterprise Services employed 139, 500 people in 60 countries, the largest locations being the United States, India and the UK.

* Earth Days, a 2009 documentary feature film about the start of the environmental movement in the United States.

Already this is happening with wheat, with more crops to be planted in the United States, Canada, and Europe in 2009.

* 2009 – The United States Navy guided missile cruiser runs aground off Oahu, Hawaii, damaging the ship as well as a coral reef.

: Watchmen ( 2009 ) ( set in an alternative version of history in which Richard Nixon went up for a third term and the United States won the Vietnam War due to the intervention of superheroes )

Genetically engineered plants and animals capable of producing biotechnology drugs more cheaply than current methods ( called pharming ) are also being developed, and in 2009 the United States FDA approved the sale of the pharmaceutical protein antithrombin produced in the milk of genetically engineered goats.

This plan was thwarted for the time being on May 20, 2009, when the United States Senate voted to keep the prison at Guantanamo Bay open for the foreseeable future and forbid the transfer of any detainees to facilities in the United States.

The United States is Honduras's primary trading partner and the source of about two-thirds of the country's foreign direct investment ( 2009 information

The film Vision-From the Life of Hildegard von Bingen, directed by Margarethe von Trotta, premiered in Europe in 2009 and in the United States in 2010.

In FY 2009, the United States resettled just 328 refugees from Afghanistan.

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In 2009, an internal audit by the Office of the Compliance Advisor Ombudsman determined that the IFC ignored its Environmental and Social Standards by approving $ 200 million worth of loan guarantees to fund the production of palm oil in Indonesia, a country faced with significant environmental risks to its rainforests.

In 2009, according to a preliminary report from the Environmental Protection Agency published in November 2009, which is based on 2009 pre-model year production projections provided by automakers, Hyundai, at an average of, is the second most fuel-efficient automaker in America, after Honda's combined U. S. fleet of Honda and Acura models at an average of.

While in late 2009 the civic heart of Cookstown, the Burn Road has benefited greatly from an Environmental Improvement Scheme.

In November 2009, the Town broke ground on its " Green Street " in a ceremony attended by US Environmental Protection Agency ( EPA ) Administrator Lisa Jackson.

The agency received approval in October 2009 from the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection for the turbine, which would stand high.

* Gastl, R 2009, CIP in Environmental Management, English management summary of: Gastl, R 2009, Kontinuierliche Verbesserung im Umweltmanagement-die KVP-Forderung der ISO 14001 in Theorie und Unternehmenspraxis, 2nd Edition, vdf, Zurich-Switzerland, envirocip. com

In 2009, the building earned Silver certification from the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design ( LEED ) certification system under the United States Green Building Council.

Tulane hosted an Environmental Summit at its law school in April 2009, an event that all students could attend for free.

In 2009, he attended the Bromley Environmental Awards and was the celebrity guest at Bromley Civic Centre where the awards were presented to various schools in the borough.

In 2009 she received the Award of Distinction from the University of California Davis College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences.

* Davis, Jack ( 2009 ), An Everglades Providence: Marjory Stoneman Douglas and the American Environmental Century, University of Georgia Press ( 2009 ).

In 2009, the EPA awarded Koch subsidiary Georgia-Pacific its SmartWay Excellence award, " an innovative collaboration between the U. S. Environmental Protection Agency ( EPA ) and the freight industry designed to increase energy efficiency while significantly reducing air pollution ," and specifically commended Georgia-Pacific.

He served as the 14th Governor of Utah from 1993 to 2003, as Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency from 2003 to 2005 and as Secretary of Health and Human Services from 2005 to 2009.

The Delaware Environmental Institute ( DENIN ) launched October 23, 2009.

) 2009, The Ecological Modernisation Reader: Environmental Reform in Theory and Practice, London and New York, Routledge, ISBN 978-0-415-45370-7 hardback, ISBN 978-0-415-45371-4 paperback.

TerraChoice Environmental Marketing, an advertising consultancy company issued a report denoting a 79 % increase in the usage of corporate greenwashing between 2007 and 2009 ( 1 ).

* Ramon Margalef Prize in Ecology and Environmental Sciences of the Generalitat of Catalonia, 2009.

In July 2009, talk show host Glenn Beck began to devote what would become many episodes on his TV and radio shows, focusing on President Obama's Director of White House Council on Environmental Quality, Van Jones.

A landing and processing of a Baird's beaked whale was filmed by the Environmental Investigation Agency on 07 August 2009.

* The Environmental Initiatives deposit program, which was introduced in 2009 with the fair ’ s outdoor concessionaires and Food Building vendors, will be expanded to include all exhibitors by 2011.