During the 2008 U. S. presidential election, Cato scholars criticized both major-party candidates, John McCain and Barack Obama.

According to its annual report, the Cato Institute had fiscal year 2008 income of $ 24 million.

A 2008 Senate investigation found that Biederman also received $ 1. 6 million in speaking and consulting fees between 2000 and 2007 — some of them undisclosed to Harvard — from companies including makers of antipsychotic drugs prescribed for children with bipolar disorder.

During his post-ABBA career Andersson won four Swedish Grammis awards, and together with Ulvaeus received the " Special International " Ivor Novello award from ' The British Academy of Composers and Songwriters ', twice " The Music Export Prize " from the Swedish Ministry of Industry and Trade ( 2008 ), as well as the " Lifetime Achievement " award from the Swedish Music Publishers Association ( SMFF ).

In 2007, he was elected a member of Royal Swedish Academy of Music, and in 2008 received an Honorary Doctorate from the Stockholm University Faculty of Humanities for contributing importantly both to the preservation and the growth of the Swedish folk music tradition.

Edinson Volquez received three second-place votes in 2008 balloting despite no longer being a rookie under the award's definition.

Bacardí 8, for example, received two gold medals and a silver from the San Francisco World Spirits Competition between 2008 and 2010.

Caltech received $ 144 million in federal funding for the physical sciences, $ 40. 8 million for the life sciences, $ 33. 5 million for engineering, $ 14. 4 million for environmental sciences, $ 7. 16 million for computer sciences, and $ 1. 97 million for mathematical sciences in 2008.

More recently, on 10 October 2008 Charlton received an indicative offer for the club from a Dubai-based diversified investment company.

It received its world premiere in New York City in June 2008.

* In 2008, Trudeau received the Mental Health Research Advocacy Award from the Yale School of Medicine for his depiction of the mental-health issues facing soldiers upon returning home from the Afghanistan and Iraq wars.

Day received a Grammy for Lifetime Achievement in Music in 2008, albeit again in absentia.

* The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society ( 2008 ) by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows is written as a series of letters and telegraphs sent and received by the protagonist.

In December 2008, the IFF and the sport of floorball received recognition from the International Olympic Committee ( IOC ).

The FDA's federal budget request for fiscal year ( FY ) 2008 ( October 2007 through September 2008 ) totaled $ 2. 1 billion, a $ 105. 8 million increase from what it received for fiscal year 2007.

ABC News reported in March 2008 that Singer said he is not on the payroll of the energy industry, but he acknowledged that SEPP had received one unsolicited charitable donation of $ 10, 000 from ExxonMobil, and that it was one percent of all donations received.

In 2008, most of the € 202. 5 million received by the organization was donated by about 2. 6 million regular supporters, mainly from Europe.

While strips in this vein can be found online as early as 2006, the 2008 site Garfield Minus Garfield by Dan Walsh received enough online attention to be covered by news media.

In 2008 it became known that during 2007 she had received two treatments at Ullevål, paid for by Norwegian public expenditures.

In 2008 de Garis received a 3 million Chinese yuan grant ( around $ 436, 000 ) to build an artificial brain for China ( the China-Brain Project ), as part of the Brain Builder Group at Wuhan University.

A third album in the Connick on Piano series, Chanson du Vieux Carré was released in 2007, and Connick received two Grammy nominations for the track " Ash Wednesday ", for the Grammy awards in 2008.

He has received several Primetime Emmy Award and Grammy Award nominations and in 2008 it was announced that Shearer would receive a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in the radio category.

In 2008, the Authority received two new applications for authorization to explore for polymetallic nodules, coming for the first time from private firms in developing island nations of the Pacific.

As an example, Mexico started to export irradiated guava to the U. S. in 2008 and mango, sweet lime, manzano pepper in 2009 ; and has received approval for citrus and star fruit with exports to initiate in 2012.

He was also portrayed by Anthony Hopkins in the 1997 film Amistad, and again by Ebon Moss-Bachrach in the 2008 HBO television miniseries John Adams ; the HBO series received criticism for needless historical and temporal distortions in its portrayal.

In 2008, the world's total arable land amounted to 13, 805, 153 km², whereas 48, 836, 976 km² was classified as " agricultural land.

Armenia's national debt has increased significantly since 2008 when public external debt consisted of only 13. 5 percent of GDP.

: 4. 13 deaths / 1, 000 population ( 2008 est.

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

The 2008 Menier Chocolate Factory production opened on Broadway at the Walter Kerr Theatre in previews on November 24, 2009 and officially on December 13, 2009, with the same creative team.

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.

Today the harmonized ISO / IEC 80000-13: 2008 – Quantities and units — Part 13: Information science and technology standard cancels and replaces subclauses 3. 8 and 3. 9 of IEC 60027-2: 2005, namely those related to Information theory and Prefixes for binary multiples.

After the second terminal of International Airport Sofia was built the total number of passengers rose and reached 3 230 696 in 2008, and in April 2011 Airport Sofia serviced 282 694 passengers, 13 % more than the same period of 2009, when the record was 250 000 passengers.

A bocce player of note is Umberto Granaglia ( May 20, 1931 – December 13, 2008 ), who was awarded the honor of " Player of the Twentieth Century " by the Confédération Mondiale des Sports de Boules.

Inflation rose to 22. 5 % in 1995, dropped to 11. 1 % in 1997, 12 % in 1998, 11 % in 1999 and 13 % in 2008.

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.

On July 4, 2008, Colorado defeated the Florida Marlins, 18 – 17, after at one point being down, 13 – 4.

* Cecilia Beaux, American Figure Painter, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, February 2-April 13, 2008

At the end of the 2008 / 09 season, Chievo had an average crowd attendance of 13, 352.

This market grew by 12. 5 percent in 2008, from revenue of $ 8. 13 billion in 2007 to $ 9. 15 billion in 2008.

On June 13, 2008, a small majority of members of the House of Ariki attempted a coup, claiming to dissolve the elected government and to take control of the country's leadership.

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A production opened at the Campbell Theatre in Martinez, CA on June 13, 2008.

On May 13, 2008, Hewlett-Packard Co. confirmed that it had reached a deal with Electronic Data Systems to acquire the company for $ 13. 9 billion.

These include Gérard Pirès ( Riders, 2002 ), Pitof ( Catwoman, 2004 ), Jean-François Richet ( Assault on Precinct 13, 2005 ), Florent Emilio Siri ( Hostage, 2005 ), Christophe Gans ( Silent Hill, 2006 ), Mathieu Kassovitz ( Babylon A. D., 2008 ), Louis Leterrier ( The Transporter, 2002 ; Transporter 2, 2005 ; Olivier Megaton directed Transporter 3, 2008 ), Alexandre Aja ( Mirrors, 2008 ), and Pierre Morel ( Taken, 2009 ).