On 4 March 2008, in announcing a partnership with Magna Steyr to outsource manufacture of over 2, 000 cars annually at Graz, Austria, the company stated " The continuing growth and success of the company is based upon Gaydon as the focal point and heart of the business, with the design and engineering of all Aston Martin products continuing to be carried out there.

In 2008, Brazil has signed a strategic partnership with France and Russia to trade military technology.

As a celebration, in partnership with the CLIC Sargent charity, 2 August 2008 was Gnashional Menace Day, where children were sponsored to behave like Dennis.

In May 2008, the NLCC and The JAM Brands announced a partnership to produce The U. S. Finals-Final Destination.

In 2008 Vodacom Lesotho introduced its new partnership with Vodafone.

In November 2008 Philips renewed and extended its F1 partnership with AT & T Williams.

As of May 2008, Gretzky's current business ventures include the " Wayne Gretzky's " restaurant in Toronto near the Rogers Centre in downtown Toronto, opened in partnership with John Bitove in 1993.

Macy's, in partnership with the Make-A-Wish Foundation, launched its first Believe campaign in 2008, based on " Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus ".

Its author base is overwhelmingly local, and in 2008 it entered into a partnership with the Mandela Rhodes Foundation to support scholarships for South Africans studying postgraduate degrees.

In early 2008, Herefordshire Council and NHS Herefordshire became the first local authority and Primary Care Trust to form a new kind of partnership.

In 2008, a DOE sponsored partnership between Delphi Electronics and Peterbilt demonstrated that a fuel cell could provide power to the electronics and air conditioning of a Peterbilt Model 386 under simulated " idling " conditions for 10 hours.

In April 2008 the Blackhawks announced a partnership with the Chicago White Sox.

The film was shown in Leeds Film Festival in November 2008, as part of Back to the Electric Palace, with live music by Larry Goves, performed in partnership with Opera North.

On December 20, 2008, Feyenoord announced not to renew the partnership contract with Excelsior due to financial and flexibility reasons.

On October 15, 2008, NCR announced a global reseller partnership with Experticity, a Seattle-based software company.

She worked on the 22nd Bond adventure Quantum of Solace and reprised her role as M. She is interested in horse racing and in partnership with her chauffeur Bryan Agar owns a four-year-old horse, " Smokey Oakey ", who won the 2008 Brigadier Gerard Stakes.

Since its launch in Paris in December 2008, Global Zero ( campaign ) has grown to 300 leaders, including current and former heads of state, national security officials and military commanders, and 400, 000 citizens worldwide ; developed a practical step-by-step plan to eliminate nuclear weapons ; launched an international student campaign with 75 campus chapters in eight countries ; and produced an acclaimed documentary film, Countdown to Zero, in partnership with Lawrence Bender and Participant Media.

In June 2008 outline plans to reinstate some underground rivers were published by the office of Mayor of London, and in January 2009 a partnership between the Environment Agency, Natural England and the Greater London Authority set out a strategy for putting this into effect by creating the River Restoration Centre.

Under the subsequent BRAC 2005, the 940 ARW's KC-135R aircraft were realigned and the last aircraft departed Beale by the end of 2008 as the 940th converted to an associate reconnaissance wing mission in partnership with the 9 RW, operating the RQ-4 Global Hawk.

2008 also saw the opening of the " Sun Valley Pavilion ", built in partnership with the Sun Valley Summer Symphony as a permanent home for the orchestra's annual three-and-a-half week series of free concerts.

In June 2008, the partnership with Boston University ended, and the schools returned to full local control.

The part of uncompleted trail wrapped up construction in the Autumn of 2008 with the Trail partnership with Miami County Park District.

In 2008, a partnership known as the River Wensum Restoration Strategy ( RWRS ) was formed between ; Environment Agency ; Water Management Alliance and Natural England to restore the physical functioning of the Wensum.

With the restoration underway, British Waterways pulled out of the partnership in 2008 because of financial difficulties.

Burton ( 2008 ) argues that Lincoln's republicanism was taken up by the Freedmen as they were emancipated.

In 2008, it was discovered that the inactivation of only two genes in one species of annual plant leads to the conversion into a perennial plant.

From 2002 to July 2008 under Turkmen calendar reform, the month of August was named after Alp Arslan.

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

A bridge was first completed here in 1887, replaced by another structure in 1949, and subsequently replaced with the current bridge which was completed in 2008.

To try to answer this question more definitely, a randomized double-blind study was started in September 2008 and was completed in March 2010.

For this reason, Armenia was virtually unaffected by the Liquidity crisis of September 2008.

It hosted the annual Hall of Fame Game, an exhibition game between two major league teams that was played from 1940 until 2008.

In 2008, Athens was ranked the world's 32nd richest city by purchasing power < ref >

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

In 2008, a former goods shed by the main railway station of Abensberg was converted into a theatre by local volunteers.

The " Theater am Bahnhof " ( Theatre at the Railway Station ) is mostly used by the Theatergruppe Lampenfieber and was opened on 19 October 2008.

It replaces the " sheaves of wheat " design, and was minted until 2008.

On December 1, 2008, the Curb Exchange building at 86 Trinity Place was closed, and the Amex Equities trading floor was moved to the NYSE Trading floor at 11 Wall Street.

The building work for the stadium which has a capacity of 32. 960, began in May 2008 and was completed by the beginning of 2009.

It was not until June 6, 2008 that Japan formally recognised the Ainu as an indigenous group ( see Official Recognition, below ).

On June 6, 2008, a bi-partisan, non-binding resolution was approved by the Japanese Diet calling upon the government to recognize the Ainu people as indigenous to Japan, and urging an end to discrimination against the group.

Its main building was named Albertus Magnus Hall in 2008.

In 2008 the skeleton of Queen Eadgyth, granddaughter of Alfred the Great was found in Magdeburg Cathedral in Germany.

In December 2008, HDMS Absalon was involved in the rescue of putative Somali pirates 90 miles off Yemen in the Gulf of Aden.

The campaign by the name ' Tree Day-Plant Your Future ' was first organized on 12 March 2008, when an official non-working day was declared and more than 150, 000 Macedonians planted 2 million trees in one day ( symbolically, one for each citizen ).