Such rates cannot be sustained, but despite reaching 26. 4 % in 2005 ( second highest GDP growth in the world in 2005 only to Equatorial Guinea ), and 2006 over 34. 6 % ( world highest ), in 2008 dropped to 10. 8 %, and dropped further to 9. 3 % in 2009.

* 2005 – Hurricane Katrina devastates much of the U. S. Gulf Coast from Louisiana to the Florida Panhandle, killing more than 1, 836 and causing over $ 80 billion in damage.

Restaurant industry sales are expected to reach a record high of $ 476 billion in 2005, an increase of 4. 9 percent over 2004 ...

In the spring of 2005, without acknowledging any wrongdoing, Aon agreed to a $ 190 million settlement, payable over 30 months.

The upgrade is being carried out by Embraer and Elbit ; it includes a new avionics suite, a full glass cockpit with three MFDs, HOTAS configuration and a new multimode radar, the Italian Grifo F. The first F-5EM was handed over on September 21, 2005, and it is scheduled at a rate of two aircraft being delivered each month from that date onwards.

Between 2005 and 2009, Cuba, Haiti, and Honduras were the top three recipients of Brazilian assistance, receiving over $ 50 million annually.

In September 2007, Economic Community of West African States ( ECOWAS ) intervened to attempt to resolve the dispute over two villages along the Benin-Burkina Faso border that remain from a 2005 ICJ decision.

Former COO Scott Arnold took the title of interim president and chief executive officer until November 8, 2005, when it was announced that Tod Nielsen would take over as CEO effective November 9, 2005.

In March 2005, Lara declined selection for the West Indies team because of a dispute over his personal Cable & Wireless sponsorship deal, which clashed with the Cricket Board's main sponsor, Digicel.

Selig earned $ 14. 5 million from MLB over the timespan October 31, 2005 to October 31, 2006.

On July 4, 2005, Cape Verde became the third country to sign a compact with the U. S. Government-funded Millennium Challenge Corporation ( MCC ); the five-year assistance package is worth over $ 110 million in addressing rural economic expansion, infrastructure development, and development of the credit sector.

Also, by 1999, 38-40 % of the population of the Cayman Islands was of Jamaican origin and in 2004 / 2005 little over 50 % of the expatriates working in the Cayman Islands ( i. e. 8, 000 ) were Jamaicans ( with the next largest expatriate communities coming from the United States, United Kingdom and Canada ).

Total trade registered a 31 % increase over 2005.

The European Commission has proposed to assist Croatia's efforts to join the European Union with 245 million euros from PHARE, ISPA and SAPARD aid programs over the course of 2005 and 2006.

In 2005, a reassessment of residential property values resulted in a disproportionate number of houses owned by non-affluent people jumping in value relative to other houses, with hundreds having their property tax increased by over 100 %; this forced many homeowners in Cambridge to move elsewhere.

As of 2005, there were over 50 churches recognized as cardinalatial deaconries, though there were only 30 cardinals of the order of deacons.

Their previous training ground in Harlington was taken over by QPR in 2005.

Considerable controversy exists over the proper definition of the term " desertification " for which Helmut Geist ( 2005 ) has identified more than 100 formal definitions.

The event held on November 18, 2005 knocked over 4 million dominoes by a team from Weijers Domino Productions.

Donkeys, which numbered over 400 in 1972, were down to just 20 individuals in 2005.

At the 2005 General Assembly, over 3000 delegates voted nearly unanimously to elect the Sharon E. Watkins as General Minister and President of the denomination.

Following MOTOWN, Digital Cinema Solutions electronically distributed over a virtual private network close to 100 films until it was sold in 2005.

On July 1, 2005, Selig suspended Texas Rangers pitcher Kenny Rogers for 20 games and fined him $ 50, 000.

The latest Ordnance Survey Ireland " Discovery Series " ( Third Edition 2005 ) 1: 50, 000 map of the Dublin Region, Sheet 50, shows the boundaries of the city and three surrounding counties of the region.

" Near East Archaeological Society Bulletin 50 ( 2005 ): 15-26.

" 50 First Dates was followed by Fever Pitch ( 2005 ), and in 2007, Music and Lyrics and Lucky You.

It was named # 37 overall among the " 150 Best Games of All Time " by Computer Gaming World Magazine ( 15th Anniversary Issue — November 1996 ), was voted # 13 overall in PC Gamer Magazine's Readers All-Time Top 50 Games Poll ( April 2000 issue ), the editors of PC Gamer ranked it # 12 in the Top 50 Games of all time, in their October 2001 issue, citing the game's humor and pop-culture references and it was ranked # 15 in the 50 Best Games of All Time list published by PC Gamer Magazine in its April 2005 issue.

This was increased to 50. 9 percent in 2005, but when GM further increased its stake to 70. 1 percent around the time of its 2009 Chapter 11 reorganisation, Holden's interest was relinquished and transferred to another ( undisclosed ) part of GM.

Brown appeared at Edinburgh 50, 000 – The Final Push, the final Live 8 concert on July 6, 2005, where he performed a duet with British pop star Will Young on " Papa's Got A Brand New Bag ".

According to the WMUR / Granite State Poll conducted by the University of New Hampshire, just three months after taking office in January of 2005, Lynch's approval rating surpassed 50 % and has stayed upwards of 55 % throughout his tenure.

Frank Kelly Freas ( 27 August 1922 – 2 January 2005 ), called the " Dean of Science Fiction Artists ", was an American science fiction and fantasy artist with a career spanning more than 50 years.

In three subsequent elections to the Sejm, he ran all the time from Łódź, each time gaining more and more votes ( from 50 thousand in 1991 up to 146 thousand in 2001 ); he held a seat in Parliament till 2005.

In August 2005, a task force consisting of 50 + international experts from various fields was organized by the Center for Responsible Nanotechnology to study the societal implications of molecular nanotechnology.

Venezuela 50 %, US 22, 2 %, Italy 5. 2 %, Netherlands 5 % ( 2005 )

Vanquished ( 2005 ), a two-volume collection of 50 exemplary interviews ; and a compilation of original interpretive essays entitled The Powerful?!

:" My Administration's position is very clear: if the Task Force and the Bush Administration stand by their 2005 conclusions, then for over 50 years the U. S Government has perpetuated a ' monumental hoax ' on the people of Puerto Rico, on the people of the United States and on the international community.

In a 2005 poll to find The Comedian's Comedian, he was in the top 50 comedy acts voted for by comedians and comedy insiders.

A custom signature amplifier was engineered by Lifeson and released in April 2005 with the stipulation that UNICEF will receive a donation in the amount of $ 50 for every Alex Lifeson Signature TriAmp sold.

Among the many fundraising events, Team Bodog raised over $ 50, 000 for Animal Avengers in a celebrity poker night on October 8, 2005.

He had also been climbing the Suntop Media & European Foundation for Management Development ( EFMD ) rankings of the 50 most influential management thinkers placing 31st in 2001, 27th in 2003, and 12th in 2005, but fell to 21st in 2007.

The second major reforms took place in December 2005, when the States of Jersey Law 2005 came into force.

In March 2005, Madagascar was the first beneficiary of development aid offered by the United States in a plan aimed at rewarding countries determined by Washington to be putting forth market reforms and advocating democracy.

Free-market reforms of recent decades have removed many barriers to foreign investment, and the World Bank in 2005 praised New Zealand as being the most business-friendly country in the world, before Singapore.

King Abdullah, who came to the throne in 2005, is seen as a reformer and has introduced economic reforms ( limited deregulation, encouragement of foreign investment, and privatization ) and made modernizing changes to the judiciary and government ministries.

* Arno Tausch ( 2005 ) ‚ World Bank Pension reforms and development patterns in the world system and in the " Wider Europe ".

In recent years, the chronically high inflation has been brought under control and this has led to the launch of a new currency, the " New Turkish lira ", on January 1, 2005, to cement the acquisition of the economic reforms and erase the vestiges of an unstable economy.

In late 2005, the World Bank, which had extended Yemen a four-year US $ 2. 3 billion economic support package in October 2002 together with other bilateral and multilateral lenders, announced that as a consequence of Yemen ’ s failure to implement significant reforms it would reduce financial aid by one-third over the period July 2005 through July 2008.

The Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act of 2005 has clarified this area of concern by making changes to the U. S. Bankruptcy Code that include, along with many other reforms, language imposing a means test for Chapter 7 cases.

The reforms enter into force in 2004 – 2005.

In the autumn of 2005, Verhofstadt managed to score a success when he was able to negotiate a " Generation Pact " with regard to employment and social reforms, regardless of the opposition and actions of the unions.

Even though German spelling was already more consistent than English or French spelling, the German speaking countries signed an agreement on spelling reforms in 1996 ; these were planned to be gradually introduced beginning in 1998 and fully in force by 2005.

On 21 March 2005, Secretary-General Kofi Annan proposed several reforms for the Secretariat.

Because of this resistance, the 1959 reform was relatively modest, and the radical reforms were partially reverted in 1981 and 2005.

Recent higher education reforms by the Howard government have allowed Australian universities to increase fees and take in a greater number of full-fee paying students, and despite a large student backlash, La Trobe has taken advantage of the reforms, increasing fees by 25 % in 2005.

In 2005, the rule was changed slightly to accommodate reforms to the AFL Tribunal system.

Given that Constitutional reforms in 2005 abolished life senators starting in 2006, Frei ran for an elected Senate seat in the December 2005 parliamentary elections and was victorious.

In total, Alcock brought forward 158 separate reforms for the public service in late 2005, and promised that another eighty would follow.

On 1 December 2005 Palmer was appointed to the presidency of the New Zealand Law Commission ( the government agency that reviews, reforms and seeks to improve the country's laws ) by the Governor General for a term of five years.

* He launched far-reaching reforms of the Garda Síochána and introduced severe penalties ( up to five years in jail ) for Gardaí who leaked information under the Garda Síochána Act 2005, after the force was extensively criticised by the Morris and Barr Tribunals and he was embarrassed by high-profile leaks of his plans for the force to newspapers from high-level Gardaí.

Committed to fighting poverty at home, Ben Ali instituted reforms including the National Solidarity Fund which slashed the Tunisian poverty rate from 7. 4 % in 1990 to an estimated 3. 8 % in 2005.