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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.
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2008 and series
The popular AFI 100 Years … series, which ran from 1998 to 2008, and created jury-selected lists of America ’ s best movies in categories including Musicals, Laughs and Thrills, drove new generations to experience classic American films.
* 2008 – Hamburg – 10. 18. 07 ( Official Bootleg series )
The History Channel series Cities of the Underworld ran a segment (" New York's Secret Societies ") on the tunnel in Fall 2008.
In 2007 the international rules series was abandoned because of the aggression and the severity of the Australian team in the previous year, but in 2008, under new rules to protect the player with the ball, it resumed in Australia.
Cooperative drills with the United States are very common, the last series of them conducted in 2008.
In July 2008, the UK Television series Bonekickers, dedicated an hour to Boudica in the episode named " The Eternal Fire.
The number of societies in the UK fell by four during 2008 due to a series of mergers brought about, to a large extent, by the consequences of the financial crisis of 2007-2010.
In July 2008, History's Monster Quest series featured the Texas carcasses, which were determined to be dogs and coyotes.
Just a few weeks later, Le bassin aux nymphéas ( from the water lilies series ) sold at Christie's 24 June 2008 auction in London, lot 19, for £ 36, 500, 000 ($ 71, 892, 376. 34 ) ( hammer price ) or £ 40, 921, 250 ($ 80, 451, 178 ) with fees, nearly doubling the record for the artist and representing one of the top 20 highest prices paid for a painting at the time.
There have been eight series sweeps since interleague play began: four by the Cubs in 1998, 2004, 2007, and 2008, and four by the White Sox in 1995, 2008, and 2012.
The series was extended a year to show the process of getting the 2008 Cheerleaders ready.
A series of 2008 research shows that CRM systems, among others, need to be more open to flexibility of technical writers, allowing these professionals to become content builders.
In 2008, he presented a reality TV talent show-themed television series produced by the BBC entitled Maestro, starring eight celebrities who are " famous amateurs with a passion for classical music.
* Clone ( TV series ), a 2008 BBC comedy series
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 ".
* 2008 – Lord's Resistance Army, a Ugandan rebel group, begins a series of attacks on Democratic Republic of the Congo, massacring more than 400.
However, in January 2008, Hero started to broadcast the Digimon series with Digimon Adventure.
* My Sister's a Pop Star ( 2006 ), I'm SO Not a Pop Star ( 2008 ), and the third book in the series, My Life on TV ( 2010 ), by American author Kimberly Greene, use blog posts to move the plot along and introduce key changes in the protagonist's thinking.
* 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.
However, in 2008 the Food Festival was cancelled due to numerous complaints of disruption to residents and some businesses in the immediate proximity ; it has been replaced by a series of smaller events, spread out over the year.
Six episodes from series one were a core text in the Year 12 English Advanced syllabus for the Higher School Certificate in New South Wales ( 2000 – 2008 ) for Module C: Representation and Text: Elective 1: Telling the Truth.
However, the Daleks return in " Bad Wolf "/" The Parting of the Ways " ( 2005 ), and subsequently in " Army of Ghosts "/" Doomsday " ( 2006 ), " Daleks in Manhattan "/" Evolution of the Daleks " ( 2007 ), " The Stolen Earth "/" Journey's End " ( 2008 ) and " Victory of the Daleks " ( 2010 ), the penultimate of these being the series 4 finale where Davros also returns, and the final of these being the first time the Eleventh Doctor meets the Daleks.
The Garfield Show, a CGI series, started production in 2008 to coincide with the strip's 30th anniversary.
2008 and studies
Two 2008 case studies show that the layout of a system provides a strong correlation to the ease of use for a system and that it proved more beneficial for the design to focus on presenting information in a way that reflected the most important goals and tasks of the user, rather than the structure of the organization.
* EFSA GMO Panel deliberations on the Austrian report " Biological effects of transgenic maize NK603 x MON 810 fed in long term reproduction studies in mice " ( Part of the minutes of the plenary meeting held on 3 – 4 December 2008, see on page 9 )
The team at RIKEN further studied the reaction in 2008 in order to conduct first spectroscopic studies of the even-even nucleus < sup > 264 </ sup > Hs.
This reaction was studied in 2008 at RIKEN in order to conduct first spectrscopic studies of the even-even nucleus < sup > 264 </ sup > Hs.
A 2008 review found that although there are hardly any controlled studies on alternative medicine and IC / BPS, " rather good results have been obtained " when acupuncture is combined with other treatments.
In a 2008 book, David Neumark and William L. Wascher described their analysis of studies on the minimum wage, from several countries covering a period of over 50 years ( but primarily from the 1990s onward ).
The chief events in Nostratic studies in 2008 were the posting online of the latest version of Dolgopolsky's Nostratic Dictionary and the publication of Allan Bomhard's latest comprehensive treatment of the subject, Reconstructing Proto-Nostratic, in 2 volumes.
2008 also saw the opening of a website, Nostratica, devoted to providing important texts in Nostratic studies online.
Based on new work published in 2007 and 2008 by some of the authors of the original studies, several new hypotheses have been put forth.
In hypogonadal men testosterone has been shown to give improvement in bone quantity and quality, but, as of 2008, there are no studies of the effects on fractures or in men with a normal testosterone level.
Population studies have found that in 2004 and 2008, liberal-voting states have lower rates of divorce than conservative-voting states, possibly because people in liberal states tend to wait longer before getting married.
A prototype passed a durability test in a wind tunnel on March 2008, and Japan's space agency adopted it for feasibility studies.
Hatzopoulos ( 2008 ) summarized the studies involved in the dispute around the tomb and showed that claims against Philip II are scientifically baseless.
In 2008 the Gulf Cooperation Council announced that it had agreed to include Yemen in plans for an integrated regional rail system and launched feasibility studies.
The most detailed studies on the frequency, onset, and duration of EVD clinical signs and symptoms were performed during the 1995 outbreak in Kikwit, Zaire ( EBOV ) and the 2007 – 2008 outbreak in Bundibugyo, Uganda ( BDBV ).
Genetic studies published in 2006 and 2008 show several sharply delineated clades that may represent separate species.
As of 2008, he is on leave from his Ph. D. studies at Stanford.
* Robert M. Entman ( 2012 ) Scandal and Silence: Media Responses to Presidential Misconduct ( Polity Press ) 269 pages ; case studies from USA 1998 to 2008 indicate the news media neglects many more incidents of corruption than it covers.
Chemical studies performed in 2007 – 2008 indicate that flerovium is unexpectedly volatile for a group 14 element ; in preliminary results it even seemed to exhibit noble-gas-like properties due to relativistic effects.
The People of Knossos: prosopographical studies in the Knossos Linear B archives ( Uppsala: Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis, 2008 ) ( Boreas.
A 2008 literature review reported studies in several nations have found a relationship between myopia and higher IQ and between myopia and school achievement.
In 2010, Lance Storm, Patrizio Tressoldi, and Lorenzo Di Risio analyzed 29 ganzfeld studies from 1997 to 2008.
These clinical studies formed the basis of the FDA-clearance to market the NeuroStar TMS Therapy System in the United States in October of 2008 for the treatment of major depression in patients who failed to benefit from initial antidepressant medication.
It is home to Wabash College, which was ranked by Forbes as # 12 in the United States for undergraduate studies in 2008.
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