Over half of the tax revenues in the January – August 2008 time period were generated from value-added taxes ( VAT ).

In 2008, effective January 1, 2009, the ADAAA broadened the interpretations and added to the ADA examples of " major life activities " including, but not limited to, " caring for oneself, performing manual tasks, seeing, hearing, eating, sleeping, walking, standing, lifting, bending, speaking, breathing, learning, reading, concentrating, thinking, communicating, and working " as well as the operation of several specified " major bodily functions ".

On January 17, 2008, NYSE Euronext announced it would acquire the AMEX for $ 260 million in stock ; on October 1, 2008, NYSE Euronext completed the acquisition.

On January 13, 2008, the Falcons named former Patriots director of college football scouting Thomas Dimitroff General Manager.

On 4 January 2008, Dr. Gail Dinter-Gottlieb decided to step down as President and Vice Chancellor of the University before her term expired.

OnStar transitioned to digital service with the help of data transport technology developed by Airbiquity, but warned customers who could not be upgraded to digital that their service would permanently expire on January 1, 2008.

On January 11, 2008, Talk Is Free Theatre presented the Canadian professional premiere ( in concert ) at the Gryphon Theatre in Barrie, Ontario, with a fundraiser performance on January 13 at the Diesel Playhouse in Toronto, Ontario.

The Stephen Sondheim Center for the Performing Arts produced a limited-run revival of the musical from January 11 to 27, 2008.

On January 17, 2008, Selig's contract was extended through 2012, after which he planned to retire, but then decided to stay as commissioner until the end of the 2014 season, a move approved by the owners on January 12, 2012, which would take his leadership past his 80th birthday.

However, in January 2008, Selig agreed to a three-year contract extension, announcing he planned to retire after the 2012 season.

* On 24 January 2008, Peter Hain resigned his two cabinet posts ( Secretary of State for Work and Pensions and Secretary of State for Wales ) after the Electoral Commission referred donations to his Deputy Leadership campaign to the police.

In the UK in 2009 it was estimated that up to 12 million shoppers appeared at the sales ( a rise of almost 20 % compared to 2008, although this was also affected by the fact that the VAT would revert to 17. 5 % from 1 January ).

led to the January 2008 bulk-sampling of kimberlite pipes in a remote part of Montana.

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On 1 January 2008, the country entered the eurozone and adopted the euro as its official currency, replacing the Cypriot pound at an irrevocable fixed exchange rate of CYP 0. 585274 per EUR 1. 00.

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122. 9 billion cu m ( 1 January 2008 est.

This eliminated the human reservoir of the disease and reduced hospital admissions to 1 % or less of January 2008 levels.

On 13 November 2008, Cessna announced that a total of 665 jobs would be cut at its Wichita and Bend, Oregon plants starting in January 2009.

In January 2008, shortly before plans to retire to Blackpool, Vera's husband Jack found that she had died in her armchair.

The Australian Government has introduced legislation that requires ISP's to " restrict access to age restricted content ( commercial MA15 + content and R18 + content ) either hosted in Australia or provided from Australia " that was due to commence from 20 January 2008, known as Cleanfeed.

She left the production on December 30, 2007, and later returned from August 26, 2008 until the production closed on January 11, 2009.

In January 2009, Bartlett was named an adjunct faculty member at the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin, where he will teach a seminar on media and politics.

Prior to January 2004, the ERIC network consisted of sixteen subject-specific clearinghouses, various adjunct and affiliate clearinghouses, and three support components.

Eric LI Ka-Cheung, GBS, OBE, JP ( Traditional Chinese: 李家祥 ) ( b. 21 January 1952 ) is adjunct professor at the School of Accountancy of the Chinese University of Hong Kong and the School of Business of Hong Kong Baptist University.

Griffith and Johnson are credited with pioneering the formal clinical introduction of tubocurarine as an adjunct to anesthetic practice on 23 January, 1942, at the Montreal Homeopathic Hospital.

Hill accepted a position as a visiting scholar at the Institute for the Study of Social Change at University of California, Berkeley in January 1997, but soon joined the faculty of Brandeis University — first at the Women's Studies Program, later moving to the Heller School for Social Policy and Management.

Lobegott Friedrich Constantin ( von ) Tischendorf ( January 18, 1815 – December 7, 1874 ) was a noted German Biblical scholar.

The Reverend Sabine Baring-Gould () ( 28 January 1834-2 January 1924 ) was an English hagiographer, antiquarian, novelist and eclectic scholar.

* January 24 – E. A. Speiser, American biblical scholar ( d. 1965 )

* January 11 – Moshe Zvi Segal, Israeli linguist and Talmudic scholar, and Israel Prize recipient ( b. 1876 )

* January 7 – John Berryman, American poet and scholar ( b. 1914 )

* January 27 – Richard Bentley, English classical scholar ( d. 1742 )

* January 26 – Thomas Platter, Swiss humanist scholar ( b. 1499 )

* January 25 – Robert Burton, English scholar ( b. 1577 )

* January 11 – Johann Georg Graevius, German classical scholar and critic ( b. 1632 )

* January 19 – Thomas Ruddiman, Scottish classical scholar ( b. 1664 )

* January 4 – Frederick York Powell, English historian and scholar ( d. 1904 )

* January 29 – Johann Georg Graevius, German classical scholar and critic ( d. 1703 )

* January 21 – Joseph Justus Scaliger, French Protestant scholar ( b. 1540 )

* January 19 – Jonathan Toup, English classical scholar and critic ( b. 1713 )

* January 23 – Ludovico Antonio Muratori, Italian historian and scholar ( b. 1672 )

* January 16 – Arnold Drakenborch, Dutch classical scholar ( b. 1684 )

* January 10 – Johann Philipp Baratier, German scholar ( d. 1740 )

* January 10 – Joshua Barnes, English scholar ( d. 1712 )

Sebastian Münster ( 20 January 1488 – 26 May 1552 ), was a German cartographer, cosmographer, and a Hebrew scholar.

* January 4 – James Ussher, Anglo-Irish priest and scholar ( d. 1656 )

* January 12 – Petrus Scriverius, Dutch writer and scholar ( d. 1660 )

* January 6 – Lambert Bos, Dutch scholar and critic ( b. 1670 )

* January 21 – Adrien Baillet, French scholar and critic ( b. 1649 )