The southern areas became part of German offices for the United Nations in 2008.

In 2008, Anheuser-Busch became Kasey Kahne's primary sponsor, and has also sponsored many races, including the Budweiser Shootout, and previously The Bud at the Glen, Budweiser 500, and Budweiser 400.

You wouldn't like me when I'm angry ", became a catchphrase the world over ( the phrase was used again, first in Ang Lee's Hulk ( 2003 ), although in Spanish, and again in the 2008 movie The Incredible Hulk, with an altered version in Portuguese ).

Jouve and colleagues suggested in 2008 that juvenile marine crocodyliforms lived in freshwater environments like modern marine crocodile juveniles, which would have helped them survive where other marine reptiles became extinct ; freshwater environments were not as strongly affected by the K – Pg extinction event as marine environments.

In May 2008, Gail finally met Ted Page, the father she'd never known and in 2009, Gail's boyfriend, Joe McIntyre became addicted to pain killers, which came to a head when he broke into the medical centre.

* Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull ( 2008 ) introduces thirteen " extra dimensional beings " with crystal skeletons, who founded a city that became the basis of the El Dorado myth.

In 2008 however Barack Obama became the first Democrat since 1964 to win Ormsby County / Carson City, defeating John McCain 49 % to 48 %, by 204 votes, a margin of under 1 %.

In 2008 16: 10 became the most common sold aspect ratio for LCD monitors and the same year 16: 10 was the mainstream standard for laptops and notebooks.

In 2008 the rivalry became more intense when in the last game of the year in which both teams could clinch a playoff spot with a victory, the Philadelphia Eagles defeated the Cowboys 44 – 6, and clinched a playoff spot, where they would go to lose the NFC Championship game to the Arizona Cardinals.

There were several piebald dachshunds that became AKC Champions in 2008.

In June 2008, EDuke32 became the only Duke Nukem 3D port to compile and run natively on 64-bit Linux systems without the use of a 32-bit compatibility environment thanks to significant porting contributions from the DOSBox team.

The 2008 team became the only team in NFL history to lose all 16 regular season games since the NFL went to a 16-game schedule in 1978.

The strength of the La Niña made the 2008 Atlantic hurricane season one of the most active since 1944 ; there were 16 named storms of at least 39 mph ( 63 km / h ), eight of which became or greater hurricanes.

In 2008 she became the recipient of the Thomas Jefferson Foundation Medal in Architecture.

In 2008 it became known that during 2007 she had received two treatments at Ullevål, paid for by Norwegian public expenditures.

In 2004 development began on HTML5 in the Web Hypertext Application Technology Working Group ( WHATWG ), which became a joint deliverable with the W3C in 2008.

So, all works of Lovecraft published during his lifetime, became public domain in all 27 European Union countries on 1 January 2008.

Matti Vanhanen's two cabinets followed suit until autumn 2008, when the state became a major shareholder in the Finnish telecom company Elisa with the intention to secure the Finnish ownership of a strategically important industry.

In 2008, he became a patron of Population Matters, ( formerly known as the Optimum Population Trust ), which campaigns for a gradual decline in the global human population to a sustainable level.

On January 31, 2008, the Sedgwick County Zoo in Wichita, Kansas became the first zoo in the Americas to document parthenogenesis in Komodo dragons.

By 2008, worldwide sales of televisions with LCD screens exceeded annual sales of CRT units ; the CRT became obsolete for most purposes.

Lausanne became the first city in Switzerland to have a rubber-tyred metro system, with the m2 Line which opened in October 2008.

In October 2008 Moldcell became the first carrier in Moldova to launch a 3G network, currently all carriers provide 3G services throughout the country.

Nancy Reagan's health and well-being became a prominent concern in 2008.

Defying political pundits, who had predicted it to be trounced in the April 2008 elections, the Communist Party of Nepal ( Maoist ) became the largest party amidst a general atmosphere of fear and intimidation from all sides.

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

Its main building was named Albertus Magnus Hall in 2008.

In 2008, there were 30, 400 main telephone lines in use, making Burundi 178th in the world in terms of countries with the most main telephone lines in use.

In 2008, the BJU Museum & Gallery opened a satellite location, the " Museum & Gallery at Heritage Green " near downtown Greenville, which features rotating exhibitions from the main museum as well as interactive children's activities.

DC Comics and its major, longtime competitor Marvel Comics ( currently owned by Time Warner's main rival The Walt Disney Company ) together shared over 80 % of the American comic-book market in 2008.

The speed limits on the main roads in Sweden were changed on many stretches in October 2008, which saw the introduction of the 120 km / h limit.

Since November 2008, a regular ferry service has linked the two main islands, carrying cars, passengers and cargo.

* Hanley Ramirez ( 2006 – 2012 )-As the main piece of the Josh Beckett & Mike Lowell trade in the 2005 off-season, Ramirez was the face of the franchise during his tenure and a major offensive cog, having a 30-30 season in 2008, winning a batting title and finishing 2nd in MVP voting in 2009, and participating in three All-Star games.

As of 2008, Greenland had 23, 500 telephone main lines in use.

The Greens founded the first international chapter of a German political party in the U. S. on April 13, 2008 at the Goethe-Institut in Washington D. C. Its main goal is " to provide a platform for politically active and green-oriented German citizens, in and beyond Washington D. C., to discuss and actively participate in German Green politics.

Reporting on these developments in his annual report to the Authority in April 2008, Secretary-General Nandan referred also to the upward trend in demand and prices for cobalt, copper, nickel and manganese, the main metals that would be derived from seabed mining, and he noted that technologies being developed for offshore extraction could be adapted for deep sea mining.

The telecommunications in the Republic of Macedonia consist of an estimated 550, 000 main telephone lines in use as of 2005, and an estimated 2, 079, 000 cellular phones in use as of 2008.

While police control barriers are a common sight on African highways, and while illicit demands for bribes at such stops are common in many countries, the main Malian highway heading south from Bamako to the Burkina Faso border was singled out in late 2008 as the worst in West Africa.

In March 2008, the New York Times reported that in the past 12 months, the main supplier of munitions to Afghanistan's army and police forces was an AEY, Inc., a company headed by a 22-year old Efraim E. Diveroli, an Israeli-American from Florida whose vice president was a licensed masseur.

The combined main lines and mobile lines is expected to hit 976 million by 2008.

On May 22, 2008, Che, which was released in theatres in two parts titled The Argentine and Guerrilla, was presented in the main competition of the 2008 Cannes film festival.

Among these, according to the Financial Times, was Spain's rapidly growing trade deficit, which had reached a staggering 10 % of the country's GDP by the summer of 2008, the " loss of competitiveness against its main trading partners " and, also, as a part of the latter, an inflation rate which had been traditionally higher than the one of its European partners, back then especially affected by house price increases of 150 % from 1998 and a growing family indebtedness ( 115 %) chiefly related to the Spanish Real Estate boom and rocketing oil prices.

Gellar graced the cover of Gotham and featured as their main story in the March 2008 issue, in which she spoke about how passing 30 has evolved her style.

Lewiston's main industries are agriculture, paper and timber products production at the mill owned and operated by the Clearwater Paper Corporation ( until December 2008, a part of the Potlatch Corporation ) and light manufacturing.

The festival has a broad main stream focus with pop related music as well as traditional acoustic guitar music and alternative music with international guests like Caetano Veloso ( 2007 ), Rumberos Catalans, Pedro Soler, Bernardo Sandoval, Peter Finger, Aaron and Bryce Dessner ( 2008 ).

The technology site, environment site and space site were discontinued in 2008, with the content being integrated into the main NewScientist. com site.

Despite investment in fixed lines, the density of main lines remains the lowest in Europe with nearly ten lines per 100 people ( 2008 ); however, cellular telephone use is widespread and generally effective.

The athletics competition underway at the main stadium of the 2008 Summer Olympics