From January – September 2010, bilateral trade with the United States measured approximately $ 150 million, on track for about a 30 percent increase over 2009.

Hotels did not get that many in 2009, mostly due to the economic situation in the United States, and partially because of scares of drug-related violence.

On June 3, 2009, it was reported that Aon had signed a four year shirt sponsorship deal with English football giant Manchester United.

He is married to Hillary Rodham Clinton, who has served as the United States Secretary of State since 2009 and was a Senator from New York from 2001 to 2009.

In 2009, he was named United Nations Special Envoy to Haiti, and after the 2010 earthquake he teamed with George W. Bush to form the Clinton Bush Haiti Fund.

He was named United Nations Special Envoy to Haiti in 2009.

In 2009, transgenic maize was grown commercially in 11 countries, including the United States ( where 85 % of the maize crop was genetically modified ), Argentina ( 83 % GM ), Brazil ( 36 % GM ), South Africa ( 57 % GM ), Canada ( 84 % GM ), the Philippines ( 19 % GM ) and Spain ( 20 % GM ).

Frommer's, the American travel guidebook series, listed Belfast as the only United Kingdom destination in its Top 12 Destinations to Visit in 2009.

The United States is by far its largest trading partner, accounting for about 73 % of exports and 63 % of imports as of 2009.

Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper ( right ) and President of the United States | U. S. President Barack Obama ( left ) meet in Ottawa in February 2009

In the UK, since 2009, the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom has the authority to overrule and unify decisions of lower courts.

A new modern constitution, which devolved some authority from the United Kingdom to the Cayman Islands government, was passed by referendum on 20 May 2009.

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" Reflections on the ' New Qing History ' School in the United States ," Chinese Studies in History, Winter 2009 / 2010, Vol.

In 2009, for the first time in church history, more new members came from Africa than the United States.

Backyard croquet being played in rough grass with inexpensive equipment, United States, 2009

Fulham recorded four record attendances in the 2009 – 2010 season, in their 0 – 1 loss to Arsenal and their 3 – 1, 3 – 0 and 2 – 1 victories over Liverpool, Manchester United and Hamburg SV respectively, each of which drew full capacity crowds.

Matters did not improve under caretaker manager Phil Parkinson, and a 3 – 1 defeat at Sheffield United saw the Addicks four points adrift at the bottom of the Championship as 2009 dawned, under threat of their first relegation to English football's third tier for 29 years.

George Barna, a conservative Christian author and researcher, conducted a survey in the United States in 2009 that found gay and lesbian people having a Christian affiliation were more numerous than had been presumed.

On 31 May 2009 the United States sent the Nereus hybrid remotely operated vehicle ( HROV ) to the Challenger Deep.

* 2009 United Nations Climate Change Conference, held at the Bella Center in Copenhagen, Denmark

Relations between the United Kingdom and Ecuador were traditionally regarded as " low-key but cordial ", especially before the election of Rafael Correa ; the Prince of Wales and Duchess of Cornwall visited the country in 2009, as part of a tour celebrating the bicentenary of Charles Darwin.

In the United Kingdom, the pro-assisted dying group Dignity in Dying cite conflicting research on attitudes by doctors to assisted dying: with a 2009 Palliative Medicine-published survey showing 64 % support ( to 34 % oppose ) for assisted dying in cases where a patient has an incurable and painful disease, while 49 % of doctors in a study published in BMC Medical Ethics oppose changing the law on assisted dying to 39 % in favour.

Meanwhile the parties in the ED subgroup were growing restless and finally left following the 2009 elections, when the Czech Civic Democratic Party and United Kingdom Conservatives formed their own European Conservatives and Reformists group on 22 June 2009, abolishing the ED subgroup from that date.

As of 2009, HP Enterprise Services employed 139, 500 people in 60 countries, the largest locations being the United States, India and the UK.

* Earth Days, a 2009 documentary feature film about the start of the environmental movement in the United States.

Already this is happening with wheat, with more crops to be planted in the United States, Canada, and Europe in 2009.

* 2009 – The United States Navy guided missile cruiser runs aground off Oahu, Hawaii, damaging the ship as well as a coral reef.

: Watchmen ( 2009 ) ( set in an alternative version of history in which Richard Nixon went up for a third term and the United States won the Vietnam War due to the intervention of superheroes )

Genetically engineered plants and animals capable of producing biotechnology drugs more cheaply than current methods ( called pharming ) are also being developed, and in 2009 the United States FDA approved the sale of the pharmaceutical protein antithrombin produced in the milk of genetically engineered goats.

This plan was thwarted for the time being on May 20, 2009, when the United States Senate voted to keep the prison at Guantanamo Bay open for the foreseeable future and forbid the transfer of any detainees to facilities in the United States.

The United States is Honduras's primary trading partner and the source of about two-thirds of the country's foreign direct investment ( 2009 information

The film Vision-From the Life of Hildegard von Bingen, directed by Margarethe von Trotta, premiered in Europe in 2009 and in the United States in 2010.

In FY 2009, the United States resettled just 328 refugees from Afghanistan.

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Software can be quite a profitable industry: Bill Gates, the founder of Microsoft was the richest person in the world in 2009 largely by selling the Microsoft Windows and Microsoft Office software products.

* The Adaptive Execution Office ( AEO ) is one of two new DARPA offices created in 2009 by the previous DARPA Director, Regina Dugan.

In 2009, the Office of Personnel Management issued implementation guidance on the Isabella decision: OPM Letter.

Associate Professor Luk Van Parijs was dismissed in 2005 following allegations of scientific misconduct and found guilty of the same by the United States Office of Research Integrity in 2009.

In 2009, an internal audit by the Office of the Compliance Advisor Ombudsman determined that the IFC ignored its Environmental and Social Standards by approving $ 200 million worth of loan guarantees to fund the production of palm oil in Indonesia, a country faced with significant environmental risks to its rainforests.

A report produced in September 2009 by the Government Accountability Office stated that the rate at which retirees were rewarded disability claims was above the norm for the industry in general and indicated " troubling " practices that may indicate fraud, such as the use of a very small group of physicians in making the diagnosis.

" However, more recent studies such as those from the New York Office of Mental Health ( OMH ) in 2005 and 2009 showed that outpatient treatment was effective.

* Leisure Suit Larry: Box Office Bust ( 2009 )

In February 2009, the Government Accountability Office evaluated whether the Forest Service should be moved from the Department of Agriculture to the Department of the Interior, which already includes the National Park Service, the Fish and Wildlife Service, and the Bureau of Land Management, managing some of public land.

In 2009 the Office of Naval Research debarred him for 28 months, until September 2011, from receiving U. S. Federal Funding.

In 2009, Nimoy was honored by his childhood hometown when the Office of Mayor Thomas Menino proclaimed the date of November 14, 2009 as Leonard Nimoy Day in the City of Boston.

In 2009, the Home Office commissioned two new studies in the effects of khat use and in June 2010, a Home Office spokesperson stated: " The Government is committed to addressing any form of substance misuse and will keep the issue of khat use under close scrutiny ".

The Office of International Acquisition ( CG-922 ) at the U. S. Coast Guard ( USCG ) received a request from the Navy International Programs Office ( IPO ) to procure these boats on May 13, 2009.

President Barack Obama unveiled on May 7, 2009, a $ 26. 4 billion budget request for DOE for fiscal year ( FY ) 2010, including $ 2. 3 billion for the DOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy ( EERE ).

In 2009, a nationwide survey conducted by the Afghan Central Statistics Office ( CSO ) estimated that the total number of Afghans living inside Afghanistan was about 24. 5 million and by 2011 it reached 26 million.

More than 1, 300 basic cadets salute during the ceremonial Oath of Office formation on 26 June 2009.

In 2009, the University of Calgary's Office of the Student Experience ( now the Student Success Centre ) launched their own co-curricular record, the first of its kind in western Canadian universities.

This building achieved LEED Gold Certification and in March 2009 was named Green Development of the Year by The National Association of Industrial and Office Properties ( NAIOP ).

U. S. Post Office in Cottonwood Falls, 2009

The Government of Cambodia had opened up its third U. S. Consular Office in Lowell, on April 27, 2009, with Sovann Ou as current advisor to the Cambodian Embassy.

In 2008 – 2009 Don Laughlin's Riverside Resort was valued for taxation purposes at $ 53, 000, 000, and has been reduced to a taxable valuation as little as $ 12, 000, 000 for the years 2012 – 2013 according to the Clark County Assessors Office.

In 2008 – 2009 the Edgewater was valued for taxation purposes at $ 31, 000, 000 and has been reduced to a taxable valuation as little as $ 5, 000, 000 for the years 2012 – 2013 according to the Clark County Assessors Office.