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In 2008, the US government sponsored another study, Early Implementation of Public Single-Sex Schools: Perceptions and Characteristics, which listed the benefits of single-sex schools: ( 1 ) Decreases distractions in learning, ( 2 ) Reduces student behavior problems, ( 3 ) Provides more leadership opportunities, ( 4 ) Promotes a sense of community among students and staff, ( 5 ) Improves student self-esteem, ( 6 ) Addresses unique learning styles and interests of boys or girls, ( 7 ) Decreases sex bias in teacher-student interactions, ( 8 ) Improves student achievement, ( 9 ) Decreases the academic problems of low achieving students, ( 10 ) Reduces sexual harassment among students, ( 11 ) Provides more positive student role models, ( 12 ) Allows for more opportunities to provide social and moral guidance, ( 13 ) Provides choice in public education.
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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.
US $ 0. 2 billion ( 2008 )
:* James G. Butler ( US ): 2008 – 2010.
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.
2008 and government
As of October 2008, the Armenian government is considering implementing an ambitious project to build a railway to Iran.
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 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.
2008 has brought announcements of new or additional sales to Singapore, Finland, Morocco and South Korea ; in December 2010 the Swiss government requested 150 AIM-120C-7 missiles.
The UDF government also failed to stop the growing negative account balance, which has since then continued to increase, reaching a negative of $ 12. 65 billion in 2008.
In February 2008, the Malaysian government announced the Sarawak Corridor of Renewable Energy plan to harvest the virgin hinterlands of Northern Borneo.
The government took no action, and handed the final parts of Bakassi over to Cameroon on 14 August 2008 as planned, but a Federal High Court had stated this should be delayed until all accommodations for resettled Bakassians had been settled ; the government did not seem to plan to heed this court order, and did set the necessary mechanisms into motion to override it.
As of 2008, Canada ’ s total government debt burden is the lowest in the G8.
In a paper written in 2008, Cass Sunstein, legal scholar, and Administrator of the White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, wrote of appropriate government responses to conspiracy theories.
The UK's National Health Service announced in 2008 that more therapists would be trained to provide CBT at government expense as part of an initiative called Improving Access to Psychological Therapies ( IAPT ).
During the 2008 Canadian parliamentary dispute, two of Canada's opposition parties signed an agreement to form what would become the country's second coalition government since Confederation if the minority Conservative government was defeated on a vote of non-confidence ; unseating Stephen Harper as Prime Minister.
On 15 July 2008, the Committee that oversees the administration of the convention between meetings of all the Parties granted China and Japan permission to import elephant ivory from four African government stockpiles, the ivory being sold at a single auction in each country.
On June 13, 2008, a small majority of members of the House of Ariki attempted a coup, claiming to dissolve the elected government and to take control of the country's leadership.
It was announced on 31 December 2007 as a policy to be implemented by the Rudd ALP government, and initial tests in Tasmania have produced a 2008 report.
On the 19th of November 2007 the Senato della Repubblica passed a class action law in Finanziara 2008, a financial document for the economy management of the government.
In South Australia, on 30 July 2008 the government introduced legislation to scrap parts of its double jeopardy law.
The Santiago light rail system is a planned light rail system in the Dominican Republic's second largest city, still in developing stages it was said to start on mid 2008 but right now is currently on hold due to lack of approval and of central government funds.
In 2008, the most popular majors were economics, government, history, psychological and brain sciences, English, biology, and engineering sciences.
The government is planning to start the process for licensing a second national operator for voice and transport services by 2008, with a view to this company starting operations in 2009.
In May 2008, residents along the western Ethiopian border reportedly discovered that the government had agreed to demarcate this boundary when Sudanese soldiers forced them out of their homes.
Afghanistan has signed a copper deal with China ( Metallurgical Corp. of China Ltd .) in 2008, which is to a large scale project that involves the investment of $ 2. 8 billion dollars by China and an annual income of about $ 400 million dollars to the Afghan government.
In August 2008, it was announced that the Solomon Islands intended to open a High Commission in Suva, and in December the government of Fiji announced that it had " formally endorsed the establishment of a Resident Diplomatic Mission in Suva by the Government of the Solomon Islands ".
In January 2008, the Fiji Times Online reported that the government of Fiji had announced in a cabinet statement that it will establish full diplomatic relations with four nations: Iceland, Latvia, the Dominican Republic and Estonia.
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