* South American Classification Committee ( SACC ) ( 2008 ): A classification of the bird species of South America – Part 1.

Other experts followed suit, with BirdLife International in 2000, Brooke in 2004, ACAP in 2006, and SACC in 2008.

Other experts followed suit, with BirdLife International in 2000, Brooke in 2004, ACAP in 2006, and SACC in 2008.

The Armenian government collected 383. 5 billion drams ($ 1. 26 billion ) in various taxes in the first nine months of 2008 ( a 33. 2 percent increase from the same period last year ).

On August 11, 2008, Dallas Buck, RHP Micah Owings, and C Wilkin Castillo were traded to the Reds ( in last place in the NL Central at the time ) in exchange for OF Adam Dunn.

Even in the last pre-crisis year, 2008, the Bulgarian economy was growing rapidly at 6. 0 %, despite significantly slowing down in the last quarter.

The global financial crisis started to apply downward pressure on growth and employment in the last quarter of 2008.

Cooperative drills with the United States are very common, the last series of them conducted in 2008.

On 18 November 2008 the band released The BBC Sessions, which features songs from the period of 1996 – 2001 ( including the last recordings featuring Isobel Campbell before she left the band ), along with a second disc featuring a recording of a live performance in Belfast from Christmas 2001.

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.

* Mobile Edition of the CIA World Factbook, last updated 10 June 2008

A 2008 expedition from the University of Washington's School of Oceanography collected sediment cores from the lagoon to study climate change over the last millennium.

For that reason, the 2008 season may be regarded as the last hurrah of the Tribune years.

The last such director, Ben Hayes, was elected in 2006 to serve until 2008, when the role was discontinued as a result of legal issues.

The Citizen Corps CERT curriculum ( including the Train-the-Trainer course ) was updated during the last half of 2008 to reflect feedback from instructors across the nation.

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.

Inflation rate up to January 2008 was located about 1. 14 %, the highest recorded in the last year, according to Government.

In October 2008 de Klerk spoke at Brigham Young University concerning the global politics and role of the United States as the world's last remaining superpower.

His health, however, had been failing, and he last logged in to his Myspace page on March 19, 2008.

On 24 January 2008, Greece's premier Costas Karamanlis visited Turkey a full 48 years after the last Greek premier and uncle of his Constantine Karamanlis had visited the neighboring country.

In spite of the amount spent on health care in the U. S., according to a 2008 Commonwealth Fund report, the United States ranks last in the quality of health care among developed countries.

The last Prime Minister, Jacques-Édouard Alexis, entered office in 2006 and was removed in April 2008.

Additionally, Ted Sorensen claimed in his memoir Counselor: A Life at the Edge of History ( 2008 ) to have had a hand in the speech, and said he had incorrectly inserted the word ein, incorrectly taking responsibility for the " jelly doughnut misconception ", below, a claim apparently supported by Berlin mayor Willy Brandt but dismissed by later scholars since the final typed version, which does not contain the words, is the last one Sorensen could have worked on.

According to a Cornell University press release from January 2009, the 2008 – 09 season will be the last Cornell-sponsored search, absent confirmation of the bird:

The current list of Emerging Groups after the last meeting of the Executive Committee ( London, 22 – 25 November 2008 ) is as follows:

In November 2008, Polgár had a terrible result in The World Chess Blitz Championship in Almaty, Republic of Kazakhstan, finished last of the 16 players with only 2½ points.

In 2008, Alexander guest-starred on the CBS show Criminal Minds in the season four episode " Masterpiece " as Prof. Rothschild, a well-educated serial killer obsessed with the Fibonacci sequence who sends the team into a race against time to save his last victims.

On August 21, 2008, Jackson officially ended his holdout by signing a six-year contract worth a maximum of $ 49. 3 million, including a $ 11. 4 million signing bonus and $ 21 million guaranteed.

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.

On January 17, 2008, Selig's contract was extended through 2012, after which he planned to retire, but then decided to stay as commissioner until the end of the 2014 season, a move approved by the owners on January 12, 2012, which would take his leadership past his 80th birthday.

As of September 2008, only one law remained to be approved, but was delayed because it had a faulty procedure for approval.

__NOTOC__The current Political Constitution of the Republic of Chile, approved by Chilean voters in a controversial and tightly controlled plebiscite on September 11, 1980, under the military dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet, partially effective March 11, 1981, fully effective 11 March 1990 and amended considerably on August 17, 1989 ( via referendum ) and on September 22, 2005 ( legislatively ), and also in 1991, 1994, 1997, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2003, 2007, 2008, 2009 and 2010, replaced the earlier constitution of 1925.

The 2007-8 Ecuadorian Constituent Assembly drafted the 2008 Constitution of Ecuador, approved via the Ecuadorian constitutional referendum, 2008.

Under the special agreement, also known as the compromise that was signed in December 2008 by Belize and Guatemala it was agreed that if the people of both nations approved, by way of a simultaneous referendum on the same day, that the dispute would proceed to the ICJ.

In April 2008, the EU transport ministers approved the Galileo Implementation Regulation.

Despite a June 2008 certification by the United Nations that Israel had withdrawn from all Lebanese territory, in August, Lebanon's new Cabinet unanimously approved a draft policy statement which secures Hezbollah's existence as an armed organization and guarantees its right to " liberate or recover occupied lands ".

IEEE 802. 15. 4c was approved in 2008 and was published in January 2009.

As of August 2008, an 18-story condominium high-rise called Capitol Club Tower is in the design phase with the adjacent parking structure already having been approved by city council and purchased by the developer.

At the 2008 General Conference, the United Methodist Church approved full communion with the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America.

The Red Wolves were officially approved by the university board of trustees on March 7, 2008.

In some countries, health concerns and political controversies have limited its availability ; for example, the United States banned stevia in the early 1990s unless labeled as a dietary supplement, but in 2008 it approved rebaudioside A extract as a food additive.

In 2008, Shriners Hospitals had a total budget of $ 826 million and in 2007 they approved 39, 454 new patient applications, attended to the needs of 125, 125 patients.

On 5 June 2008 Nokia ’ s voluntary tender offer was approved for all the shares in Trolltech.

At the 2008 General Conference, the United Methodist Church approved full communion with the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America.

The Chicago City Council approved, by a 41 – 6 vote on February 6, 2008, an increase in the city's real-estate transfer tax to bail out the Chicago Transit Authority.

The program is funded primarily through bond measures approved by voters in 2001, 2003, and 2008, plus additional funding from the State of California.

In February 2008, Accellera approved VHDL 4. 0 also informally known as VHDL 2008, which addressed more than 90 issues discovered during the trial period for version 3. 0 and includes enhanced generic types.

DP chassis are subject to a franchise-like approval system in which only approved constructors are eligible, with rules stability enforced for several years at a time, although this led in 2007 to established constructors like Lola and Dallara entering the 2008 series by taking over the rights of existing constructors ( Multimatic and Doran respectively ).

In October 2008, the club announced that, if approved, it was planning to build the new stadium just to the north of the existing stadium at White Hart Lane, with the southern half of the new stadium's pitch located on the northwest corner of the Lane.