Carl Icahn received very favorable treatment from his 2008 profile on CBS's 60 Minutes.

However, after a due diligence review of Circuit City's financial books by Blockbuster ( pushed for by Carl Icahn ), Blockbuster withdrew its offer in July 2008.

Investor Carl Icahn launched a proxy fight seeking to elect three of his own nominees to the Biogen Idec board at the company's June 19, 2008 annual meeting of shareholders.

* On May 31, 2008, Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt set the then world record in the 100m on the Icahn Stadium track with a time of 9. 72 seconds at the Reebok Grand Prix,. 02 seconds faster than the previous record held by his countryman, Asafa Powell.

Although mandated by law, compliance data from the EPA for 2008 showed, however, 25 % of Bt corn growers were not in compliance.

On February 20, 2008, the first of a series of Dilbert strips showed Wally being caught posting a comic strip which " compares managers to drunken lemurs ".

A 2008 study published in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine showed that dieters who kept a daily food diary ( or diet journal ), lost twice as much weight as those who did not keep a food log, suggesting that if you write your food down, you wouldn't eat as many calories.

In 2008, undercover reporting by a private TV channel in India showed several respected clerics demanding and receiving cash for issue of fatwās.

BBC Two showed an episode on 8 November 2008 as part of its tribute night to producer Geoffrey Perkins, who had died just over two months before.

A study of granite countertops was done ( initiated and paid for by the Marble Institute of America ) in November 2008 by National Health and Engineering Inc of USA, and found that all of the 39 full size granite slabs that were measured for the study showed radiation levels well below the European Union safety standards ( section 4. 1. 1. 1 of the National Health and Engineering study ) and radon emission levels well below the average outdoor radon concentrations in the US.

A November 2008 poll showed that a 60 % majority of the Dutch population support the legalisation of soft drugs.

A 2008 study tested participants repeatedly for 90 minutes in a magnetic resonance imaging ( fMRI ) environment and showed no detectable psi effect, no baseline measure outside of the fMRI was collected for comparison.

After Washington prosecutors showed " a renewed interest in the case in the final months of 2008 ," a federal grand jury was convened in January 2009 to hear evidence of Clemens ' possible perjury before Congress.

A census held in February 2008 showed the population ( including the RMS ) had fallen to 4, 255.

In 2008, a study by Microsoft showed that the average chain of contacts between users of its. NET Messenger Service was 6. 6 people.

In 2008, she showed a large retrospective exhibition, Between The Sky And My Head, at the Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Germany, and the Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art in Gateshead, UK.

A New York Times investigation in 2008 showed that more than 90 % of Long Island Rail Road employees who had retired since 2000 were receiving disability payments from the federal Railroad Retirement Board, collectively totalling more than $ 250, 000, 000 over 8 years.

FEC showed DiCaprio gave $ 2300 to Barack Obama's presidential campaign in the 2008 U. S. Presidential election, the maximum contribution an individual can give in an election cycle.

For Microsoft Windows systems, the average selling price ( ASP ) showed a decline in 2008 / 2009, possibly due to low-cost Netbooks, drawing $ 569 at U. S. retail in August 2008.

Hatzopoulos ( 2008 ) summarized the studies involved in the dispute around the tomb and showed that claims against Philip II are scientifically baseless.

After the October 10, 2004 speech by President Chen, polls showed as little as 5 % support for reunification, with 60 % support for maintaining the status quo and 65 % opposition to the founding of a Republic of Taiwan in 2008 ( the projected date for completion of the 2006 constitutional reforms proposed by President Chen in his speech ).

A large genetic study of 2008 showed that RELN gene variation is associated with an increased risk of Alzheimer's disease in women.

In a 2008 survey, a significant minority of 39 percent of all Swedes thought that there were " too many foreigners in the country ", and in 2007 a survey showed that 49 percent of all Swedes wanted to restrict the number of asylum seekers.

Opinion polls showed the party's popularity increase under Marine Le Pen, and in the 2011 cantonal elections the party won 15 % of the overall vote ( up from 4. 5 % in 2008 ).

According to a 2008 study by Dutch geneticist Manfred Kayser, French people based on a sample from Lyon, showed genetic similarities to all Europeans especially the Swiss, Germans, Austrians, Italians, and Spaniards.

Official statistics posted on the Chinese Health Ministry's Web site showed no cases of plague in 2007 and 2008.

And in October of the years 2008, 2009, 2010 and 2011, he was made the King of Boomerroyalty in which each weekend despite being infamous, the channel " Boomerang " showed 2-hour installments of Scooby-Doo and Scrappy-Doo and The New Scooby and Scrappy-Doo Show all month.

At the 2008 New York Comic Con, Dan DiDio described how Crisis on Infinite Earths was the first of a trilogy of " Crisis " limited series that showed different stages in the development of the DC Multiverse.

Also in 2008 the Brazilian company Embraer showcased the Brazilian military transport aircraft, Embraer KC-390, and some countries already have shown interest in the aircraft, with France even placing orders.

Beginning with Sans Soleil, he developed a deep interest in digital technology, which led to his film Level 5 ( 1996 ) and Immemory ( 1998, 2008 ), an interactive multimedia CD-ROM, produced for the Centre Pompidou ( French language version ) and from Exact Change ( English version ).

The world's largest derivatives exchanges ( by number of transactions ) are the Korea Exchange ( which lists KOSPI Index Futures & Options ), Eurex ( which lists a wide range of European products such as interest rate & index products ), and CME Group ( made up of the 2007 merger of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange and the Chicago Board of Trade and the 2008 acquisition of the New York Mercantile Exchange ).

On 12 December 2008 president Correa announced that Ecuador would not pay $ 30. 6m in interest to lenders of a $ 510m loan, claiming that they were monsters.

For the 2008 season, the Ranger III carried visitors to / from Windigo on several occasions, this proved to be a failure and was discontinued after 4 trips due to lack of interest and extremely long crossing times.

The Mental Health ( Care and Treatment ) Act was passed in 2008 to regulate the involuntary detention of a person in a psychiatric institution for the treatment of a mental disorder, or in the interest of the health and safety of the person or the persons around him.

In 2008, the Japanese Central Bank still has the lowest interest rates in the developed world, deflation has still not been eliminated and the Nikkei 225 has fallen over approximately 50 % ( between June 2007 and December 2008 ).

The Reason for Antisemitism, and radio commentator, has published an on-going 19-part series explaining and promoting the concept of Judeo-Christian culture, running for three years from 2005 to 2008, reflecting the interest of this concept to his listeners.

A 2008 study analyzing the sexual fantasies of 200 heterosexual men by using the Wilson Sex Fantasy Questionnaire exam, determined that males with a pronounced degree of fetish interest had a greater number of older brothers, a high 2D: 4D digit ratio ( which would indicate excessive prenatal estrogen exposure ), and an elevated probability of being left-handed, suggesting that disturbed hemispheric brain lateralization may play a role in deviant attractions.

This newly established Danish interest in British cask beer and the British pub tradition is reflected by the fact that some 56 British cask beers were available at the 2008 European Beer Festival in Copenhagen, which was attended by more than 20, 000 people.

In January 2008, Roland announced the purchase of controlling interest in the company.

The property bubble that had begun growing in 1997, fed by historically low interest rates and an immense surge in immigration, imploded in 2008, leading to a weakening economy and soaring unemployment.

Volvo stopped posting profits in 2005 and in 2008, Ford decided to sell its interest in Volvo Cars ; in August 2010, Ford completed its sale of Volvo to the parent of Chinese motor manufacturer Geely Automobile for $ 1. 8 billion.

In 2008, a series of studies conducted by the Center for Competitive Politics, an organization whose mission is to " oppose so-called reformers ’ efforts to limit campaign contributions taxpayer funded political campaigns " found that the programs in Maine, Arizona, and New Jersey had failed to accomplish their stated goals, including electing more women, reducing government spending, reducing special interest influence on elections, bringing more diverse backgrounds into the legislature, or meeting most other stated objectives, including increasing competition or voter participation.

In 2008, Lakoff joined Fenton Communications, the nation's largest public interest communications firm, as a Senior Consultant.

In response, the Federal Reserve decided to continue cutting interest rates, down to a near-zero range as of December 16, 2008.

Ecuador's president Rafael Correa in 2008 had given the order not to approve a debt interest payment.

Since 2008, a set of TCP / IP routines for QuickBASIC 4. x and 7. 1 has revitalized some interest in the software.

The Chicken Coop Murders gained renewed public interest and attention following the release of the 2008 movie " Changeling ", directed by Clint Eastwood and starring Angelina Jolie.

In 2008, Liberty Media Corporation purchased News Corporation's controlling interest in DIRECTV.

In April 2007 Cablevision sold their interest in the New England and Bay Area networks to Comcast, and they joined Comcst SportNet in July 2007 and March 2008 respectively.

Indeed it was reported in January 2008 that the investors had not discharged the £ 10 million loan from ABC Corporation ( secured on the club's stadium ) together with its £ 1 million annual interest burden — despite the club's prospective annual turnover of between £ 10 million and £ 15 million a year.

Their breakthrough came in 2008 with the album Game, which led to a renewed interest in technopop within mainstream Japanese pop music.