Frito-Lay spent $ 414 million in 2009 on product development, including development of salt crystals that would reduce the salt content of Lay's potato chips without adversely affecting flavor.

In 2009, José Mujica, a former left-wing militant who spent almost 15 years in prison during the country's military rule, emerged as the new President as the Broad Front won the election for a second time.

Subsequent Nobel Prize winner Ada Yonath, who shared the 2009 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Thomas A. Steitz and Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, spent some time in Lipscomb's lab where both she and Steitz were inspired to pursue later their own very large structures.

For Fiscal Year 2009 LLNL spent $ 1. 497 billion on research and laboratory operations activities:

As of 2009, the Forest Service has a total budget authority of $ 5. 5 billion, of which 42 % is spent fighting fires.

* In March 2009, Sean Hodgson who spent 27 years in jail, convicted of killing Teresa De Simone, 22, in her car in Southampton 30 years ago was released by senior judges.

He spent time in 2009 promoting his own Crystal Head Vodka, with his interest in the paranormal coming through with the drink's unique skull-shaped bottle.

In 2009 when his estate was finally valued after lawyers spent 7 years going through personal effects he was found to have left £ 6. 5 million.

An updated version of the series has been produced for BBC TV, in which Stephen Fry and Carwardine revisit the animals to see how they are getting on almost 20 years later, and in January 2009, they spent time filming the Kakapo on Codfish Island.

On April 25, 2009, however, the North Korean government announced that the country's nuclear facilities have been reactivated, and that spent fuel reprocessing for arms-grade plutonium has been restored.

The Dreger Clock, a 75-year-old multi-faced street clock, best known for the time it spent at Knott's Berry Farm, was installed in front of the Whitaker / Jaynes house overlooking Beach Blvd in September 2009 after a two-year restoration project.

* Marvin Webster ( 1952 – 2009 ), NBA basketball player, spent half his career with the New York Knicks.

He spent all 25 seasons of his career at Serie A club Milan, before retiring at the age of 41 in 2009, becoming a symbol and a legend of the club.

Weaving spent the summer of 2009 starring in the Melbourne Theatre Company's production of God of Carnage, portraying the caustic lawyer Alain Reille.

Between 2008 and 2009, leadership PACs raised and spent more than $ 47 million.

Though many people think mobile phones have taken over 934 MHz, the band remains unused to the present day 2009, and could still be in use for people who spent lots of money on their radio equipment, that still functions perfectly.

This arrangement came to an end in February 2009 when ITV implemented plans to save the company £ 40m a year on the amount it spent making local news.

In an April 2009 Newsweek interview, Iacocca reflected on his time spent at Chrysler and the company's current situation.

On October 1, 2007, both Spirit and Opportunity entered their fifth mission extension that extended operations into 2009, allowing the rovers to have spent five years exploring the Martian surface, pending their continued survival.

Between 2007 and 2009, English Heritage spent £ 2. 45 million on recreating the castle's interior.

In September 2009, Brown took part in the filming of ITV1 series Seven Days on the Breadline during which she spent part of a week staying with a family living in poverty in Leeds.

In 2009 / 10 more than 1, 000 research awards worth over £ 17 million were made to individuals based in over 100 different universities across the UK, with a further £ 6. 8m spent on international research.

Roxana Saberi, who spent 100 days in Evin in 2009, accused of espionage and threatening Iran ’ s national security.

They spent Christmas 2009 in Barbados, along with three of Law's children.

On the 30th of October 2009, June Middleton of Melbourne, Australia, who had been entered in the Guinness Book of Records as the person who spent the longest time in an iron lung, died aged 83, having spent more than 60 years in her iron lung.

On October 15, 2009, Brooks announced that he was coming out of retirement, to do weekend performances at Encore Las Vegas on the Las Vegas Strip.

The Meat Puppets performed at the 2009 Voodoo Music Experience in New Orleans over the Halloween weekend.

In November 2009, Bullock starred in The Blind Side, which opened at # 2 behind New Moon with $ 34. 2 million, making it her highest opening weekend ever.

Gran Torino grossed almost $ 30 million ( US $ in dollars ) during its opening weekend release in January 2009, the highest of his career as an actor or director.

On Sunday 27 September 2009, after a weekend of concerts at Chichester Cathedral in memory of Holst, a new memorial was unveiled to the public.

From 2009, for all other rounds, two races over each take place across the weekend.

And in October of the years 2008, 2009, 2010 and 2011, he was made the King of Boomerroyalty in which each weekend despite being infamous, the channel " Boomerang " showed 2-hour installments of Scooby-Doo and Scrappy-Doo and The New Scooby and Scrappy-Doo Show all month.

Many of the channel's earliest original movies ( particularly those made from 1997 to 2002 ) have seldom been aired by Disney Channel in recent years, except for some holiday-themed movies ; in January 2009, the channel began airing these older original movies on Friday and Saturday nights at 3 am ET / PT ; since June 2010, movies also air on Sundays in late night and since July 2010, the movies start at 2: 30 am ET / PT and some of the late-night weekend movies are aired without promo breaks.

* Super Stacks and Super Stacked Weekends ( 2007 – 2009 ): Three-hour weekend marathon of two random programs, one Saturday, and one Sunday.

Equipment installation and testing for the new systems began in late 2006, and the line upgrade work required the closure of sections of the Jubilee line each weekend during 2009.

As of 2009, the event has an annual attendance of more than 50, 000 over the weekend immediately prior to Thanksgiving each year.

The city's newest event held for the first time in September 2009 is Septemberfest, which is held around Labor Day weekend.

Jane's Addiction performed at the 2009 Voodoo Fest held at City Park in New Orleans, Louisiana over Halloween weekend.

The community holds an annual " Mayberry Days " celebration during the last weekend of September ; 30, 000 attended in 2009, and 50, 000 were expected for the show's 50th anniversary in 2010.

He soon became an excellent racer, and came home each weekend with about $ 100 in winnings ( about $ 805 in 2009 dollars adjusted for inflation ).

During the Easter weekend 2009, the Pudsey Business Forum launched the Pudsey Shop Local campaign.

The channel is named after the former TEENick weekend evening program block on Nickelodeon that ran from July 2000 to February 2009.

The Soldier Hollow event, held on Labor Day weekend ( a major American holiday ) features competitors from around the world and boasts the world's biggest annual crowd with 26, 400 attending in 2009.

* Priya David, weekend news anchor ( 2008 – 2009 )

* various, weekend news anchors ( 2009 & 2010 )

The weekend morning ( 6: 00 – 6: 30 am ET ) simulcast was also abruptly canceled on April 4, 2009.

She also began hosting the Saturday breakfast show from 6: 00 am to 8: 00 am on the network from 6 June 2009 as part of a shake up of weekend programming at Radio 2.

Another weekend program, Good Morning Canada, was launched in the early 2000s but was also pre-taped using segments from local stations ; it was cancelled in 2009.

Simply Red were touring Australia in February 2009 and were due to do a concert in the Yarra Valley, on the weekend of the Black Saturday bushfires, which devastated a large area of the state of Victoria.

The double feature was opened in 1, 745 theaters on October 2, 2009, and made $ 12, 491, 789 in its opening weekend, coming in third place at the box office.