The popular AFI 100 Years … series, which ran from 1998 to 2008, and created jury-selected lists of America ’ s best movies in categories including Musicals, Laughs and Thrills, drove new generations to experience classic American films.

In 2007, she wrote that she did not want to belittle the issue but was sceptical of the claims that specific actions would prevent catastrophe, then in 2008 that her doubts had been “ crystalised ” by Nigel Lawson's book An Appeal to Reason, before stating in 2009 that " There is no climate change, hasn ’ t anybody looked out of their window recently?

As of 2008, Canada ’ s total government debt burden is the lowest in the G8.

Facts are related to the organization ’ s business processes and operational system whereas the dimensions surrounding them contain context about the measurement ( Kimball, Ralph 2008 ).

* In 2008, The Library of America selected Runyon ’ s story “ The Eternal Blonde ” for inclusion in its two-century retrospective of American Crime Writing.

In December 2008, Iran ’ s Supreme National Security Council Secretary Saeed Jalili visited Ecuador.

The children ’ s author Anne Fine presented an overview of the concerns about Blyton's work and responses to them on BBC Radio 4 in November 2008, in which she noted the “ drip, drip, drip of disapproval ” associated with the books.

* Edited by Ruán O ’ Donnell, The Impact of the 1916 Rising: Among the Nations, Irish Academic Press Dublin 2008, ISBN 978-0-7165-2965-1

On 24 September 2008, Film London, the capital ’ s film and media agency launched The New Black, a two year funding and training programme that will expand opportunities for theatrical exhibition of Black film in London.

" As of 2008, according to Tweedie, the " image as a haven for ne ’ er-do-wells is largely out of date " since the legion now conducts extensive background checks via Interpol.

Fellini ’ s work is referenced on the albums Fellini Days ( 2001 ) by Fish and Funplex ( 2008 ) by the B-52's with the song Juliet of the Spirits, and in the opening traffic jam of the music video Everybody Hurts by R. E. M.

In fact, “ Luke perceives himself to be a Jew .” Finally, Rebecca Denova concludes her book with these words: “ Luke-Acts, we may conclude on the basis of a narrative-critical reading, was written by a Jew to persuade other Jews that Jesus of Nazareth was the messiah of Scripture and that the words of the prophets concerning ‘ restoration ’ have been ‘ fulfilled .’” Finally it should be noted that Strelan in 2008 not only concluded that Theophilus was Jewish but also that Luke was a priest.

One of Hungary ’ s top tourist destinations is Lake Balaton, the largest freshwater lake in Central Europe, with a number of 1, 2 million visitors in 2008.

P. Lovecraft: Alone in Space ,” chapter 3 in Emperors of Dreams: Some Notes on Weird Poetry by S. T. Joshi ( Sydney: P ’ rea Press, 2008: ISBN 978-0-9804625-3-1 ( pbk ) and ISBN 978-0-9804625-4-8 ( hbk )), discusses some of Lovecraft's weird poetry.

This growth rate was sufficient to reduce poverty from 17. 8 % to 16. 6 % based on the Government ’ s poverty line and reversed the recent trend towards jobless growth, with unemployment falling to 8. 46 % in February 2008.

L ’ Echappée, 2008.

In 2008, Jersey ’ s Gross National Income per capita was amongst the highest in the

The trade turnover between the two countries stood at US $ 1. 785 billion in 2008 i. e. Jordan ’ s imports from India stood at about US $ 503 million in 2008 while its exports to India reached at US $ 1. 283 billion in 2008.

Translated in French by Thierry Le Breton, Au coeur de l ' action clandestine des commandos au MI6, L ’ Esprit du Livre Editions, France, 2008 ( ISBN 978-2-915960-27-3 ).

A PricewaterhouseCoopers study released in 2009, which surveyed the 2008 GDP of the top cities in the world, calculated Karachi ’ s GDP ( PPP ) to be $ 78 billion ( projected to be $ 193 billion in 2025 at a growth rate of 5. 5 %).

It confirmed Karachi ’ s status as Pakistan ’ s largest economy, well ahead of the next two biggest cities Lahore and Faisalabad, which had a reported GDP ( PPP ) in 2008 of $ 40 billion and $ 14 billion, respectively.

On 3 November 2008 a work by Malevich entitled Suprematist Composition from 1916 set the world record for any Russian work of art and any work sold at auction for that year, selling at Sotheby ’ s in New York City for just over $ 60 million U. S. ( far surpassing his previous record of $ 17 million set in 2000 ).

This prime was discovered on 23 August 2008 by Edson Smith at the University of California, Los Angeles ( UCLA )' s Mathematics Department.

Dimmendaal ( 2008 ) summarized the general view with, " it has to be concluded that Greenberg ’ s intuitions on the genetic unity of Khoisan could not be confirmed by subsequent research.

The OpenNet Initiative ’ s 2007 – 2008 technical test results contradicted that conclusion, however.

In 2008, the airport ranked as Europe ’ s 5th largest and the world ’ s 23rd by cargo tonnage.

Aeroplan began in 1984 as Air Canada ’ s frequent flier program, but since 2008 has been owned by Groupe Aeroplan Inc. and operates as a more widely based coalition program.

* In July 2008, Portugal cancelled Mozambique ’ s remaining debts to Portugal, estimated at US $ 393. 4 million, accumulated from independence until 2005.

The language is now near extinction ; during the filming of Ironbound Films ' 2008 American documentary film The Linguists, linguists Greg Anderson and K. David Harrison interviewed and recorded one of the last remaining 3 speakers.

Introduced in 2008, the series has seen many prominent speakers such as George Soros, Thomas L. Friedman, Fareed Zakaria and Ben Bernanke, chairman of the Federal Reserve System of the United States.

A few speakers of the Ninilchik Russian dialect are still alive in 2008, including one married couple who continues to speak the language to each other.

Launched in November 2008, the Institute combines scholarship with major speakers and an extensive community engagement programme, and so contributes to the Hall's founding vision to be a centre of the social as well as the sacred sciences.

On September 2, 2008, she visited Hiroshima, Japan, for a G8 summit meeting of lower house speakers and offered flowers in Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park for the victims of the 1945 atomic bombing.

In 2008 he created wireless speakers for the iPod and iPhone known as the Zikmu Parrot.

Mapuche-written publications from 2008 supports research showing approximately 700, 000 speakers.

In recent years, keynote graduation speakers have included future Attorney General Eric Holder ( 2001 ), former President Bill Clinton ( 2002 ), GE CEO Jack Welch ( 2003 ), United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan ( 2004 ), CUNY Chancellor Matthew Goldstein ( 2005 ), Late Night comedian Conan O ' Brien ( 2006 ),> American Symphony Orchestra conductor / Bard College president Leon Botstein ( 2007 ), New York Times reporter David Herszenhorn ( 2008 ), actress / alumna Lucy Liu ( 2009 ), David Axelrod, Senior Advisor to President Barack Obama ( 2010 ), and writer / alum Gary Shteyngart ( 2011 ).

In May 2008, Fisk returned to the White Sox as a team ambassador, and a member of the team's speakers bureau.

According to the 2008 Census of Pakistan, there are approximately 76, 335, 300 native speakers of Punjabi in Pakistan, and according to the Census of India, there are over 29, 102, 477 Punjabi speakers in India.

The annual Speech Day, at which boys are awarded various prizes, has been hosted by many famous speakers, including Rory Bremner, Gary Lineker, Henry Olonga, Sir Tim Rice, Sir Roger Bannister OG, Stephen Fry, Lord Coe ( 2007 ), Professor Malcolm Grant ( President and Provost of UCL ) ( 2008 ), Sir Michael Parkinson ( 2009 ), Baroness Tanni Grey-Thompson ( 2010 ) and Hugh Dennis OG ( 2012 )

In 2008, it was said to be in a state of decline with only 6 elderly native speakers, the rest of their small village on the west bank of the Weito River having adopted the Tsamai language instead.

An ethnic Korana population ( also called Griqua ) of 10, 000 live in South Africa and perhaps Botswana, with perhaps half a dozen elderly speakers as of 2008.

In the fall of 2008, the University of the South made a public commitment to environmental sustainability during its Sustainability Week, which featured speakers, feasts of local foods, and environmentally themed documentaries.

Each year since 2005, Knox has had several well-known commencement speakers, including Barack Obama ( 2005 ), Stephen Colbert ( 2006 ), Bill Clinton ( 2007 ), Madeleine Albright ( 2008 ), Patrick J. Fitzgerald ( 2009 ), Christina Tchen ( 2010 ), and Majora Carter ( 2011 ).

" Past speakers at the event have included former U. S. Secretary of State and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Colin Powell, and former 2008 Republican Party Vice Presidential nominee and Governor of Alaska Sarah Palin.

In 2008, moreover, a gene linked to a virulent form of breast cancer that is typically found only in Jewish women was discovered in a cluster of Hispanic Catholic women in Southern Colorado, many of whom trace their family's roots to northern New Mexico Curiously, a Spanish dialect, so-called " Mountain Spanish ", that is spoken by many of the old families of northern New Mexico and southern Colorado — and chiefly only among themselves — appears to be Ladino or Judezmo, a hybrid language of Old Spanish, Portuguese and Hebrew with sprinklings of Arabic, Greek and other languages, depending on the geographic region of the speakers or their ancestors.

In October 2008, 92Y opened a new performance space in Tribeca called 92YTribeca to bring together and inspire a diverse community of young people from New York City and beyond, including musicians, artists, filmmakers, performers, writers, educators, humorists, directors, speakers, sports enthusiasts and many others.

The name " Puyuma " means " unity " or " concord ," and was originally the autonym of the speakers of the Nanwang dialect ( Teng 2008 ).

The team of Zeke Schumacher and Nick Hall took second place in the 2009 California state championship for Parliamentary Debate ; Zeke Schumacher also received a national ranking in 2008 as one of the top ten speakers in the United States for Student Congress.

During the filming of the 2008 American documentary film The Linguists, linguists Greg Anderson and K. David Harrison interviewed and recorded 20 speakers and estimate there may be between 35-40 fluent speakers out of a community of overall 426 members.

The first Art + Environment Conference took place in 2008 with speakers: Matthew Coolidge of the Center for Land Use Interpretation, artist and architect Vito Acconci, photographer Michael Light, artists Fritz Haeg and Katie Holten, Bill Gilbert from Land Arts of the American West, and cultural organizer Cheryl Haines, and Geoff Manaugh of BLDGBLOG.