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As of the end of 2008, Blackstone had completed fundraising for six funds with total investor commitments of over $ 36 billion, including five traditional private equity fund and a separate fund focusing on telecommunications investments.
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On June 6, 2008, a bi-partisan, non-binding resolution was approved by the Japanese Diet calling upon the government to recognize the Ainu people as indigenous to Japan, and urging an end to discrimination against the group.
Kim was succeeded by Raymond " Ray " Plzak until the end of 2008.
Construction of the second line started in December 2008, which is due to be opened according to initial forecasts by the end of 2012.
As of the end of the 2008 season, players who have hit 115 or more career sacrifice flies:
Charlton left Manchester United at the end of the 1972 – 73 season, having scored 249 goals and set a club record of 758 appearances, a record which Ryan Giggs broke in the 2008 UEFA Champions League Final.
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.
At the end of the 2008 / 09 season, Chievo had an average crowd attendance of 13, 352.
He also covered the Sunday morning 11 AM-1 PM show on BBC Radio 2 through the end of January 2008.
The presidents of Colombia, Venezuela and Ecuador March 7, 2008 signed a declaration to end a crisis sparked when Colombian troops killed a rebel leader and 21 others inside Ecuadoran territory ( 2008 Andean diplomatic crisis ).
* At the end of 2008: 5, 304, 840
This ban was fought by the various governing bodies of shooting sports in Ireland, with the end result as of 2011 that air and smallbore pistols may still be licenced in Ireland, but all centerfire pistols not licenced prior to 17 November 2008 cannot be licenced.
At the end, rival Lebanese leaders reached consensus over Doha Agreement on May 21, 2008, to end the 18-month political feud that exploded into fighting and nearly drove the country to a new civil war.
At the end of the conflicts, National unity government was formed by Fouad Siniora on July 11, 2008 and Hezbollah has one minister and controls eleven of thirty seats in the cabinet.
On January 21, 2008, the Solomon Times reported that Italy had " pledged to convene an Italian-Pacific Islands Forum towards the end of 2008 ".
The global insurance industry was sufficiently capitalised to withstand the financial crisis of 2008 and 2009 and most insurance companies restored their capital to pre-crisis levels by the end of 2010.
At the end of 2008, deposits in Jersey banks totalled £ 206 billion, down £ 6. 2 billion from £ 212. 3 billion at the start of the year.
The 2008 season marked the end of running back Fred Taylor's eleven-year career as a Jaguar.
Before the end of 2008, Jeepster would also release another Belle & Sebastian compilation, The BBC Sessions, collecting the tracks that the band had recorded for the BBC in 1996, which included rarities and unreleased songs, together with live recordings from Belfast.
Nonetheless, with a total worldwide gross of $ 891 million, it stands as the most commercially successful film in the series and Dunst's highest grossing film to the end of 2008.
By the end of 2008, parties had a hard time agreeing on further budget cuts, ( mainly in the social sphere ) the planned reorganization of the government, and layoffs.
Total assets exceeded € 929 billion at the end of 2008.
The other highway will connect the city center of Luanda to Viana, and was expected to be completed by the end of 2008.
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In 1990, Time Warner acquired a 19. 5 % stake in Six Flags, then by the end of 1991 acquired an additional 30. 5 % giving them 50 % ownership of the corporation, with the remaining divided equally by silent partners, The Blackstone Group and Wertheim Schroder.
William Blackstone defined fee simple as the estate in land that a person has when the lands are given to him and his heirs absolutely, without any end or limit put to his estate.
More than $ 4 billion of the capital was raised by the end of 2001 and Blackstone was able to secure the remaining commitments despite adverse market conditions.
At the end of 2002, Blackstone, together with Thomas H. Lee Partners and Bain Capital, acquired Houghton Mifflin Company for $ 1. 28 billion.
If true this would be the second of 8 reported IPOs Blackstone Plans, the first being Team Health Holdings, Inc. Blackstone reported at the end of 2009 revenues of $ 1. 8bln, compared to -$ 349mln revenues in 2008.
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First he thought of the time he had ridden to Gavin and told him how his cattle were being rustled at the far end of the valley.
I could observe the two fans down at the end, but their size in themselves meant nothing to me as long as I had no measure of comparison.
At the pool's far end was the little cabana Joyce had mentioned, and on the water's surface floated scattered lavender patches of limp-looking lather.
He had never seen her before, but now he thought of the manner in which he and Benson went in and out of the cities, at each end of their run.
It had been a very long time that had no form and no end.
If the Union conceded this to them, the same right must be conceded to each remaining state whenever it saw fit to secede: This would destroy the federal balance between it and the states, and in the end sacrifice to the sovereignty of the states all the liberty the citizens had gained by their Union.
he keeps a bottle in a wardrobe at home, and `` before this wardrobe Praisegod Piepsam had before now gone literally on his knees, and in his wrestlings had bitten his tongue -- and still in the end capitulated ''.
For by now the original cause of the quarrel, Philip's seizure of Gascony, was only one strand in the spider web of French interests that overlay all western Europe and that had been so well and closely spun that the lightest movement could set it trembling from one end to the other.
They had risen from humble beginnings by their own diligence and astuteness, they were unfettered by the codes that bound nobles like Othon or even the older generation of clerks like Hotham, and they were working for an end that their opponents had never even visualized.
Toward the end of the war, we really felt that we had learned something about propaganda and how to teach it.
He and Mark were the last of the family, and there lay the Cape Ann property which had seemed to have no end, stretching from horizon to horizon, in those golden days of summer.
Only a few more than 10,000 boats had been registered with the Division of Harbors and Rivers at the end of the 1960 boating season, but many had been taken out of the water early when the threat of a hurricane brought the season to an early close.
In fact, we had one birth before the end of the course, and another student had to take the final examiantion a week early, just to be on the safe side.
Picasso says that he himself had already made his first collage toward the end of 1911, when he glued a piece of imitation-caning oilcloth to a painting on canvas.
and moreover, he had already begun to broaden and simplify the facet-planes of Analytical Cubism as far back as the end of 1910.
On the right is the Brumidi Liberty group, as it looked after cleaning operations, which had not yet come around to the other end ; ;
Not until they sailed home at the end of the day, through a sea strewn with bodies and the wreckage of houses, were they aware of what had happened.
Philadelphia permitted him to seek a better connection after he had refused to reconsider his decision to end his career as a player.
The announcement that the secrets of the Dreadnought had been stolen was made in Bow St. police court here at the end of a three day hearing.
Britain began designing the ship in 1956 but got nowhere until the American government decided to end a ban on sharing military secrets with Britain that had been imposed after Fuchs blabbed.
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