This eliminated the human reservoir of the disease and reduced hospital admissions to 1 % or less of January 2008 levels.

In 2008, NIST eliminated several other FIPS code standards, including those for countries ( FIPS 10-4 ), U. S. states ( FIPS 5-2 ), and counties ( FIPS 6-4 ).

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 ).

After being eliminated from Dancing with the Stars in April 2008, Elizabeth began dating Derek Hough, her dancing partner on the show.

In January 2008, the Commission for freeing French development, known as the Attali Commission, recommended that the departmental level of government should be eliminated within ten years.

On April 28, 2008, at Amway Arena, the Magic eliminated the Raptors with a 4 – 1 series victory in the first round.

Nonetheless, the Warriors were officially eliminated from the 2008 Western Conference Playoffs, despite having a 48 – 34 season ( This made them the first team in NBA history, since the playoffs expanded to 8 teams per conference, with at least 48 wins ).

The following season, however, ended in relegation-for the second time in the decade-with the side also being eliminated in the first round in European competition ; legendary club manager Víctor Fernández returned for a second spell as coach, being sacked in January 2008 as the club had four managers during the campaign ; in the last round, a brace from Ricardo Oliveira proved insufficient in a 2 – 3 away loss against RCD Mallorca, with the team totalling 42 points to CA Osasuna's 43.

Its representation in the Legislative Yuan was eliminated by the 2008 election when it failed to win any district-contested seats and failed to gain the 5 % threshold for proportional representation.

Beginning in November 2006 and ending in April 2008, the agreement eliminated restrictions on cargo services.

In February 2008, the College eliminated offering financial-aid loans to students from families with incomes under $ 60, 000 ( and for international students and Davis Scholars ) and it lowered the total amount of student loans by one-third ( to a maximum of $ 8, 600 total over four years ) to students from families with incomes between $ 60, 000 and $ 100, 000.

San Pedro Magazine was cancelled in December 2008 after the Press-Telegram eliminated their magazine department.

In a recent speech at the Rotary International Convention, held at the Bella Center in Copenhagen, Bruce Cohick stated that polio in all its known wild forms will be eliminated by late 2008, provided efforts in Nigeria, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and India all proceed with their current momentum.

At the start of the season they were eliminated in the second round from the 2008 – 09 Scottish Cup by Edinburgh based East Of Scotland team Spartans F. C .. At the end of the season Pollok had a chance once again to retain their West Premier League championship but lost the last league game of the season away to Auchinleck Talbot by failing to defend a 1-0 lead in the last 8 minutes.

Each tax exemption is reduced by 2 % for each $ 2, 500 by which your AGI exceeds the threshold amount until the benefit of all tax exemptions is eliminated ( 2007 ) or reduced by one-third ( 2008 & 2009 ) on your tax return.

Newsroom staff in 2008 was about the same size as it was in 1993, though there were fifty fewer full-time staff members than there were in 2002 ; about half of those positions were eliminated after a buyout in late 2007.

In 2008 the Poliovirus species was eliminated from the genus Enterovirus and the three serotypes were assigned to the species Human enterovirus C, in the genus Enterovirus in the family Picornaviridae.

Capital gains taxes for those currently paying 5 % ( in this instance, those in the 0 % and 15 % income tax brackets ) are scheduled to be eliminated in 2008.

Entering the 2008 playoffs as the defending champions, the Ducks were eliminated in the first round four games to two by the Dallas Stars.

In 2008 Daniels was part of Dec's team in the Ant v Dec segment of Ant & Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway, but was eliminated by Dec after the team lost the Bobsleigh challenge in show 3 ( of 6 ).

This award was not given out in 2007, as the VMAs were revamped and most original categories were eliminated ; however, Best Hip-Hop Video was reinstated in 2008.

In, MTV eliminated this award along with all of the genre categories, but it returned in 2008.

On April 28, 2008, the CTA eliminated Blue Line service on the Douglas branch, having been replaced by the Pink Line.

In a seminar at the Charles Schulz Museum on November 8, 2008, Lazarus called his experience at Toby " the five funniest years of my life.

The most sacrifice flies by a team in one game is five ; the record was established by the Seattle Mariners in 1988 and tied by the Colorado Rockies in 2006 and then tied again in 2008 by the Seattle Mariners.

On 30 October 2008 a spokesman for the team announced that the team would complete its last three performances of the year with five jets instead of six.

Nearly 100 children at the center of an international scandal that left them stranded at an orphanage in remote eastern Chad returned home after nearly five months March 14, 2008.

In 2008, the Board added five new charter trustees.

The figure skating team won the national championship five straight times from 2004 through 2008.

The past five years have seen rapid growth in the contribution of Asian nations to the global fluid and powdered milk manufacturing industry, which in 2008 accounted for more than 30 % of production, while China alone accounts for more than 10 % of both production and consumption in the global fruit and vegetable processing and preserving industry.

Subsequent to the resolution of the dispute, the Gibraltar telephone numbering plan has been increased to eight digits for land lines, adding a prefix of 200 to the existing Gibtelecom five digit numbers which is required to be dialled from October 2008.

Bashir had her term extended in October 2004 to February 2008, again extended in October 2007 for a further five years to 2012, and further extended in September 2011 to February 2014.

By comparison, recent figures ( as of 14 November 2008 ) estimate Zimbabwe's annual inflation rate at 89. 7 sextillion ( 10 < sup > 21 </ sup >) percent., which corresponds to a monthly rate of 5473 %, and a doubling time of about five days.

On June 24, 2008 Heinz took the decision to withdraw the advertisement, which was initially supposed to run for five weeks.

As of 2008 Virginia was one of only five states requiring imminent danger in order to involuntarily commit someone.

As of 2008, only five objects in the Solar System, Ceres, Eris, and the KBOs Pluto, Makemake and Haumea, are listed as dwarf planets by the IAU.

She was mistakenly released for five days in March 2008 due to an error made in calculating her parole before being rearrested.

According to the UNODC, by 2008, murder rates in Kosovo had dropped by 75 % in five years.

The museum consequently returned in 2009 five Egyptian fragments of frescoes ( 30 cm x 15 cm each ) whose existence of the tomb of origin had only been brought to the authorities attention in 2008, eight to five years after their good-faith acquisition by the museum from two private collections and after the necessary respect of the procedure of déclassement from French public collections before the Commission scientifique nationale des collections des musées de France.

On 17 November 2008, FCO minister Bill Rammell signed five agreements with Libya.

Parliamentary elections are held at least once every five years, with the last general election being in March 2008.

Nobel bequeathed 94 % of his total assets, 31 million SEK ( c. US $ 186 million, € 150 million in 2008 ), to establish the five Nobel Prizes.

With the Nigerien government counting 18949 km of roads in the nation, this comes to one accident for every five kilometers in 2008.

The Mets won the division in 2006 and contended in 2007 and 2008, while the Phillies won five consecutive division titles from 2007 to 2011.

Beginning at the turn of the millennium the Seychelles Petroleum Company ( SEPEC ) started to develop the first fleet of modern petroleum double-hull tankers ( five vessels ), which was completed by late 2007 / early 2008 with the possibility to build more in the near future.

When naming its top five Mario Kart tracks of all time in 2008, 1UP. com named Battle Mode Course 4 at number three and Rainbow Road – along with its subsequent versions in the series – at number one.

The highest-ranking Greens ever elected in the nation were: John Eder, a member of the Maine House of Representatives until his defeat in November 2006 ; Audie Bock, elected to the California State Assembly in 1999 but switched her registration to Independent seven months later running as an independent in the 2000 election ; and Richard Carroll, elected to the Arkansas House of Representatives in 2008 but switched parties to become a Democrat five months after his election.