(€ 19 million as a group ) However, in 2008 – 09 season saw the decrease of gate and TV income, co-currently with finished 6th in Serie A, which saw Roma made a net loss of € 1, 894, 330.

The loss marked a major turning point in Northern Territory politics, a result which was exacerbated when, at the 2005 NT election, the ALP won a second landslide victory, reducing the once-dominant party to a total of just four members in the Legislative Assembly. The 2008 saw the CLP reverse its earlier election losses, increasing its representation from four to 11 members.

The first decade of the 21st century saw the commencement of the $ 1. 3 billion Campaign for the Dartmouth Experience, the largest capital fundraising campaign in the College's history, which surpassed $ 1 billion in 2008.

2008 also saw a Japan exclusive box set containing the band's first six albums, This is the Devo Box.

The speed limits on the main roads in Sweden were changed on many stretches in October 2008, which saw the introduction of the 120 km / h limit.

November 2008 saw the release of And Winter Came ... with a new video for the song " Trains and Winter Rains ".

Mainly used by recreational watercraft in the recent past, the canal saw an upsurge in commercial traffic in 2008.

The 2008 Federal Election saw the Conservative Party of Canada take the seat with former New Maryland MLA Keith Ashfield taking this seat with 42 % of the popular vote.

The 2008 season saw the two teams meet twice again ; on November 23 the two teams battled to a 20-20 tie until Vinatieri booted a 51-yard field goal on the final play and a 23-20 Colts win ; the Colts surged to 12-4 but lost the AFC South title to the Titans ; they thus had to travel to meet the 8-8 Chargers on January 3.

2008 saw Digweed and Sasha reuniting for a Spring Club Tour that once again featured performances all over North America.

2008 saw a new twist to Lebanese politics when the Doha Agreement set a new trend where the opposition is allowed a veto power in the Lebanese Council of Ministers and confirmed religious Confessionalism in the distribution of political power.

The Malian Equipment and Transport Ministry reported that the first half of 2008 saw 254 deaths and 1, 924 injuries on Mali's roads, following on 579 deaths in 2007 and 642 in 2006.

2008 also saw the opening of a website, Nostratica, devoted to providing important texts in Nostratic studies online.

The 2008 Finals saw a rematch of the league's highest profile rivalry, the Boston Celtics and Los Angeles Lakers, with the Celtics prevailing, for their league leading 17th championship, thanks to their new big three of Paul Pierce, Ray Allen, and Kevin Garnett.

* 2008 – " Bloody Friday " saw many of the world's stock exchanges experience the worst declines in their history, with drops of around 10 % in most indices.

In 2008 saw a return to Traditional Offshore Racing with www. OffshoreEvents. net hosting the Sunny Isles Beach Offshore Powerboat Challenge Weekend featuring " The Don Aronow Memorial Race, Bimini & Back ".

However, Ernst & Young's 2010 European attractiveness survey reported that Poland saw a 52 % decrease in FDI job creation and a 42 % decrease in number of FDI projects since 2008.

The economic downturn of 2008 saw the advent of the online pawnbrokers such as Borro, who offered customers the chance to gain finance against their assets without ever entering a pawn shop.

As for employment, a longtime weakness of the Spanish economy, after having completed large improvements over the second half of the 1990s and during the 2000s ( decade ), which put a few regions on the brink of full employment, Spain suffered a severe setback from October 2008, when it saw its unemployment rate surging to 1996 levels.

The 2007 – 2008 Messiah Complex crossover saw the destruction of the Xavier Institute and the disbanding of the X-Men.

It has been alleged by opposition leaders that the military has gained control of political life in Zimbabwe following the 2008 elections that saw the MDC become the majority party in the Parliament.

The regional competitions Copa América and Euro Cup saw 5 nations rising the cup, Colombia ( 2001 ) and Brazil ( 2004, 2007 ) won the Copa América, and France ( 2000 ), Greece ( 2004 ) and Spain ( 2008 ) won the Euro Cup.

2008 saw the band in Eindhoven Netherlands playing at E-Day ( an electronic music festival ); later in the year they also played the Night of the Prog Festival in Loreley, Germany, as well as concerts at the Kentish Town Forum, in London on 1 November, at the Picture House, Edinburgh on 2 November, and their first live concert in the USA for over a decade, at the UCLA Royce Hall, Los Angeles on 7 November.

2007 saw 164 murders, 2008 had 138, and 2009 had 132.

Grand Rapids, Michigan: Zondervan, 2008.

It was chartered in the state of Michigan and incorporated as a 501 ( c )( 3 ) non-profit organization in 1962, the consortium extended its first offer of membership in 46 years to Allegheny College in 2008.

In 2008, Michigan ranked third in a survey among the states for luring new business which measured capital investment and new job creation per one million population.

The 2008 edition of " America's Best Colleges ", compiled by U. S. News & World Report, ranked Northern Michigan University as a Master's ( Midwest )-Third Tier institution.

Coke and the University of Michigan commissioned an independent study of its bottling plants by The Energy and Resources Institute ( TERI ), which reported in 2008 no unsafe chemicals in the water supply used.

The company moved out of Tecumseh in 2008, moving the remaining production to a plant in Tupelo, Mississippi, and its headquarters to Pittsfield Township, Michigan, just outside Ann Arbor, Michigan.

On July 30, 2008, the Michigan Natural Law Party nominated Ralph Nader for president, ensuring the appearance of the Nader / Gonzalez campaign on the Michigan ballot.

On July 5, 2008, the Grand Rapids, Michigan, Starbucks Workers Union and CNT-AIT in Seville, Spain, organized a global day of action against alleged Starbucks union-busting, in particular the firing of two union members in Grand Rapids and Seville.

In 2007, Pfizer announced plans to completely close the Ann Arbor, Nagoya and Amboise Research facilities by the end of 2008, eliminating 2, 160 jobs and idling the $ 300-million dollar Michigan facility, which had seen millions of dollars of expansion in recent years.

Most recently, David DiChiera rewrote the play as another opera entitled Cyrano, which was produced first by Michigan Opera Theater and then by the Opera Company of Philadelphia ( February 2008 ).

It has also garnered considerable national attention from its recent success in these sports: in particular, three-time Division I NCAA Football champion Appalachian State Mountaineers, who stunned the fifth-ranked Michigan Wolverines 34 – 32 on September 1, 2007 ; and from the Davidson Wildcats, who reached the Elite Eight in the 2008 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament by upsetting power programs Gonzaga ( a mid-major school which became a power program in the 2000s ), Georgetown and Wisconsin.

In the 2008 presidential election, Republican John McCain received 83, 330 votes in the county ( 61. 03 % of the total ) to Democrat Barack Obama's 50, 828 ( 37. 23 %), even as Obama carried the state of Michigan by a double-digit margin.

" In 2008 Jane Johnston Schoolcraft was inducted into the Michigan Women's Hall of Fame.

In the 2008 presidential election, Republican candidate John McCain received 24, 716 votes in the county ( 50. 60 % of the total ) to Democrat Barack Obama's 23, 258 ( 47. 62 %), even as Obama carried the state of Michigan by a double-digit margin.

( University of Michigan Press, 2008 ).

It was formed on October 1, 2008 by the merger of Glowing Embers Girl Scout Council, Girl Scouts of The Huron Valley Council, Girl Scouts-Irish Hills Council, and Girl Scouts of Michigan Capital Council.

The town faced bankruptcy in the fall of 2008 due to fiscal mismanagement and the State of Michigan took over financial management of the village.

The state of Michigan appointed Emergency Financial Manager Pam Amato in December 2008 to take over village operations and guide the newly elected Council through development of a five-year deficit elimination plan.

* Jane Johnston Schoolcraft, daughter of John and Susan Johnston, recognized as the first Native American literary writer and poet, and inducted into Michigan Women's Hall of Fame in 2008.

It is one of only thirteen such communities in the State of Michigan in 2008.

In 2008 it ranked among the top six in Michigan.

* 2008 recall of Michigan House of Representatives Speaker Andy Dillon

* Shawn Crable, second-team All-American linebacker and defensive team captain at the University of Michigan ; selected in the third round of the 2008 NFL draft by the New England Patriots