As of April 24, 2008, the average monthly salary is 75, 000 drams ( about $ 242 US dollars ).

Armenian dram per US dollar-310. 00 ( 2008 ), 457. 69 ( 2005 ), 533. 45 ( 2004 ), 578. 76 ( 2003 ), 573. 35 ( 2002 ), 555. 08 ( 2001 ), 539. 53 ( 2000 )

As of early 2008, the wholesale price for abalone meat was approximately US $ 40. 00 per kilogram.

By 2008, sales in the US reached $ 14. 6 billion, the biggest selling drugs in the US by therapeutic class.

** Bahamian dollars per US dollar-1 ( 2008 ), 1 ( 2007 ), 1 ( 2006 ), 1 ( 2005 ), 1 ( 2004 )

Bartók, who had made some recordings in Hungary, also recorded for Columbia Records after he came to the US ; many of these recordings ( some with Bartók's own spoken introductions ) were later issued on LP and CD ( Bartók 1994, 1995a, 1995b, 2003, 2007, 2008 ).

In his book Born Again ( 1976 and 2008 ), Watergate conspirator Chuck Colson describes his path to faith in conjunction with his criminal imprisonment and played a significant role in solidifying the " born again " identity as a cultural construct in the US.

riels ( KHR ) per US dollar-4, 097 ( 2012 ), 4, 395. 62 ( 2011 ), 4, 145 ( 2010 ), 4, 139. 33 ( 2009 ), 4, 070. 94 ( 2008 ), 4, 006 ( 2007 ), 4, 103 ( 2006 )

Costa Rican colones (₡) per US $ 1 – 512. 11 ( September 4, 2010 ), US $ 1 – 559. 51 ( October 24, 2008 ), per US $ 1 – 500. 10 ( December 2007 ), 516. 78 ( November 2007 ), 506. 11 ( April 2006 ), 479. 57 ( July 2005 ), 299. 63 ( February 2000 ), 285. 68 ( 1999 ), 257. 23 ( 1998 ), 232. 60 ( 1997 ), 207. 69 ( 1996 ) and 179. 73 ( 1995 )

Colombian pesos ( COP ) per US dollar-2, 243. 6 ( 2008 ), 2, 013. 8 ( 2007 ), 2, 358. 6 ( 2006 ), 2, 320. 75 ( 2005 ), 2, 628. 61 ( 2004 )

In addition, the already strong cross-border trade links between Colombia and Venezuela were solidified in July 2004 with an agreement to build a US $ 320 million natural gas pipeline between the two countries, to be completed in 2008.

The closures will include the new facility that was opened in August 2008 at a cost of US $ 25M, plus the McCauley Propeller Systems plant.

The largest bankruptcy in history was of the US investment bank Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc., which listed $ 639 billion in assets as of its Chapter 11 filing in 2008.

On July 31, 2008, an unnamed former White House official alleged that the US had imprisoned and interrogated at least one suspect on Diego Garcia during 2002 and possibly 2003.

On February 21, 2008, British Foreign Secretary David Miliband admitted that two US extraordinary rendition flights refuelled on Diego Garcia in 2002.

With the progressive lifting of UN and US sanctions from 2003 – 2008, the two countries have been working together to jointly develop their oil and natural gas industries.

On 3 November 2008, the painting Vampire set a new record for his paintings when it was sold for 38. 162 million US $ at Sotheby's New York.

* In February 2008, HP Enterprise Services signed a US $ 1. 3 billion contract with the Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore, one of the largest IT projects ever undertaken in Asia.

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He supported Barack Obama in the 2008 US presidential election and The New York Times has described him as a political liberal.

The 2008 film Cloverfield purports to be video footage shot by witnesses of a monster attacking New York City, and recovered by the US Army as evidence.

The city of Palembang in 2008 publicized its tourist attractions with the slogan " Visit Musi 2008 ".

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McKennitt's first album, Elemental, was released in 1985, followed by To Drive the Cold Winter Away ( 1987 ), Parallel Dreams ( 1989 ), The Visit ( 1991 ), The Mask and Mirror ( 1994 ), A Winter Garden ( 1995 ), The Book of Secrets ( 1997 ), An Ancient Muse ( 2006 ), A Midwinter Night ’ s Dream ( 2008 ), and The Wind That Shakes the Barley ( 2010 ).

Visit Baltimore reports that the Hilton Baltimore Convention Center Hotel that opened in August 2008 is helping but since the opening of the Hilton, the city has lost over 700, 000 hotel-night bookings due to the convention center being too small to meet the needs of a group or the dates the group wanted was not available but expanding the convention center would allow the city to accommodate more than one large meeting or convention at a time.

* Report of Visit to the Democratic People ’ s Republic of North Korea to Senate Foreign Relations Committee – Siegfried S. Hecker, 17 March 2008

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In 2008 he starred in a production of The Visit by John Kander and Fred Ebb alongside Chita Rivera at the Signature Theatre in Arlington, Virginia.

The Visit opened to positive reviews on May 13, 2008 and closed June 22, 2008.

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It had been hoped that patient adherence to antipsychotics would be higher with the atypicals, but a 2008 review found that the data have failed to substantiate the notion that novel antipsychotic drug use leads to improved medication compliance and favorable clinical outcomes.

He appeared to indicate that he did not see purchase of Russian launches for NASA crews as politically viable following the 2008 South Ossetia war, and hoped the new US administration will resolve the issue in 2009 by extending shuttle operations beyond 2010.

It was hoped that a new comet would have been discovered in the inner solar system between 2006 and 2008, in which case the spacecraft trajectory would have been changed if possible to rendezvous with the new comet.

Numerous industrial construction projects which had hoped to bring jobs to the area had been halted in 2008 as one of the worst economic recession began.

During 2008, DARPA announced its own list of 23 problems which it hoped could cause major mathematical breakthroughs, " thereby strengthening the scientific and technological capabilities of DoD ".

Prior had hoped to pitch again by May or June of the 2008 season, but a shoulder tear during his rehab at the end of May 2008 required surgery that forced him to miss his second consecutive season.

On December 14, 2008, the Arena Football League announced it would cancel the 2009 season, but hoped to return in 2010.

It was hoped that the 4, 500 capacity which is single tiered, all seated and covered, would be completed sometime during the 2006 – 07 season, but this had not come to fruition by the time the ground had became disused in 2008.

Reporting that the procedure went " a little better than expected ," Arizona hoped that Johnson would be ready for the 2008 season.

Sky have stated that they intend to increase the amount of HD content they show, and hoped that by the end of 2008, two thirds of all prime time shows, and 90 % of their own original commissions, would be in HD.

Equally, she hoped to release the first single, " Killer Love ", by the end of 2008.

The game did not sell as well as was hoped, Richard Garriott left NCsoft in 2008, and the game service closed in February 2009.

He also said he hoped to be touring with the new album until the end of 2008.

Reeves said in a magazine interview in 2007 that he hoped to do a new sketch show with Mortimer, for Christmas 2007 or early 2008.

On 5 May 2008, it was reported that Johnson hoped to be selected to contest his son Boris's parliamentary seat of Henley for the Conservative Party.

The Dodgers hoped to have Schmidt back before the end of the 2008 season, but manager Joe Torre later said that Schmidt would not be back, making only a few rehab starts in the minors during the year.

As of December 2008, sales of Silent Cry stand at less than 50, 000 units, less than was what hoped for by their label.

While the democratic camp hoped to play up the issue of universal suffrage as a prominent issue in the election, the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress ruled out universal suffrage for the Chief Executive's election in 2007 and for LegCo elections in 2008 in April 2004 before the election.

The album was recorded over a 12 month period from March 2008, with the band announcing in April 2009 that they had commenced mixing with Dave Sardy and that they hoped to release their fourth studio album in the summer of 2009, with potentially, a summer tour to follow.

According to a 2008 article in the UCLA Daily Bruin, " UCLA initially announced the project Jan. 11, 2007, when it hoped to have construction completed by legendary basketball coach John Wooden ’ s 100th birthday, Oct. 14, 2010.

It was hoped that this would make him fully fit for the 2008 Championship, but he is now retiring from county football at the young age of 27.

However, Miles had the option to sign on with another team if offered a contract, potentially reverting the $ 18 million dollar break the Blazers hoped to gain if Miles played in 10 games in 2008.

Steve Harrison hoped to run against Fossella again in the 2008 election, but New York City Council member Domenic Recchia also began seeking the Democratic nomination.