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In December 2008, NS & I dropped significantly the interest rate ( and therefore the odds of investors winning a prize ) due to the corresponding significant drop in the Bank of England base rate during the " credit crunch ", leading to strong criticism from Members of Parliament, financial experts, and holders of premium bonds ; many claimed that Premium Bonds were now " worthless ", and somebody with the maximum £ 30, 000 invested who has " average luck " would win only 10 prizes per year compared to 15 in the previous year.
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December and 2008
On December 1, 2008, the Curb Exchange building at 86 Trinity Place was closed, and the Amex Equities trading floor was moved to the NYSE Trading floor at 11 Wall Street.
In December 2008, HDMS Absalon was involved in the rescue of putative Somali pirates 90 miles off Yemen in the Gulf of Aden.
On December 21, 2008, Atlanta beat the Minnesota Vikings 24 – 17 to clinch a wild card spot, earning a trip to the playoffs for the first time since 2004.
On December 9, 2008, Atari announced that it had acquired Cryptic Studios, an MMORPG developer.
In December 2008, Aston Martin announced that it would cut its 1, 850 workforce by 600.
AOL released an all-new AIM for the Macintosh on September 29, 2008 and the final build on December 15, 2008.
The 2008 Menier Chocolate Factory production opened on Broadway at the Walter Kerr Theatre in previews on November 24, 2009 and officially on December 13, 2009, with the same creative team.
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.
Digicel was finally granted a licence on 17 December 2007 and plans to start operations in the BVI sometime in 2008.
Construction of the second line started in December 2008, which is due to be opened according to initial forecasts by the end of 2012.
* Programming: Principles and Practice Using C ++ by Bjarne Stroustrup – Addison-Wesley Professional ; 1 edition ( December 29, 2008 ); ISBN 0-321-54372-1
A bocce player of note is Umberto Granaglia ( May 20, 1931 – December 13, 2008 ), who was awarded the honor of " Player of the Twentieth Century " by the Confédération Mondiale des Sports de Boules.
In December 2008, Power Fasteners agreed to pay $ 16 million to the state to settle manslaughter charges.
Prior to 31 December 2010, deposits with building societies of up to £ 50, 000 per individual, per institution, were normally protected by the Financial Services Compensation Scheme ( FSCS ), but Nationwide and Yorkshire Building Societies negotiated a temporary change to the terms of the FSCS to protect members of the societies they acquired in late 2008 / early 2009.
The new highspeed ICE railway line from Karlsruhe to Basel was completed in 2008 while phase I of the TGV Rhin-Rhône line, opened in December 2011, has reduced travel time from Basel to Paris to about 3 hours.
With Switzerland joining the Schengen Area on December 12, 2008, immigration checks were no longer carried out at the crossings.
Prior to that Bernd Kellner computed B < sub > n </ sub > to full precision for n = 10 < sup > 6 </ sup > in December 2002 and Oleksandr Pavlyk for n = 10 < sup > 7 </ sup > with ' Mathematica ' in April 2008.
Ellas Otha Bates ( December 30, 1928 – June 2, 2008 ), known by his stage name Bo Diddley, was an American rhythm and blues vocalist, guitarist, songwriter ( usually as Ellas McDaniel ), and rock and roll pioneer.
$ 7. 401 billion ( December 2008 )
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 )
11. 5 % ( 31 December 2008 )
15. 6 % ( 31 December 2008 )
$ 21. 58 billion ( 31 December 2008 )
$ 26. 57 billion ( 31 December 2008 )
December and NS
From December 2009, after acquiring the OV-chipkaart no regular NS ticket has to be bought anymore.
In development for nearly 5 years from early 1990 to December 26, 1994 ( final design approved in May 1992 ), the 1996 model was introduced on January 4, 1995 at the 1995 North American International Auto Show ( NAIAS ) using the Chrysler NS platform.
Since its commissioning in December 1942, NS Mayport has grown to become the third largest naval fleet concentration area in the United States.
Razumovsky played an important role in the palace revolution on November 25 – 26 ( NS December 6 – 7 ) in 1741, which brought about Elizabeth Petrovna's accession to the throne.
On November 30 ( NS: December 11 ) he was accepted in the valid chamberlains as a general-lieutenant.
Generation III of the platform was developed from early 1990 to December 26, 1994 and introduced on January 4, 1995 and called NS.
After refurbishing at NS shops in Chattanooga, NS brought the replica to New York City for display on December 12, 2005, outside the New York Stock Exchange in a ceremony commemorating 175 years of American railroad history.
NTUA was established by Royal Decree on December 31, 1836 ( OS ), January 21, 1837 ( NS ), under the name Royal School of Arts.
It premiered on 29 November 1836 ( OS, 9 December NS ) at the Bolshoi Theatre in St. Petersburg.
A Memorandum of Understanding ( MOU ) was signed on 17 December 1994 by the representatives of the participating countries ; Singapore's Deputy Prime Minister Brigadier-General ( NS ) Lee Hsien Loong, Malaysia's International Trade and Industry Minister Datuk Seri Rafidah Aziz and Indonesia's Coordinating Minister for Trade and Industry Hartono.
December and &
In December 2010 Belle & Sebastian curated the sequel to the Bowlie Weekender in the form of Bowlie 2 presented by All Tomorrow's Parties.
* Beacon Lodge No. 9425 was consecrated on the 15 February 1991, it currently meets on the third Tuesday in February, April, October & December, and the 4th Tuesday in May
* E & E. tv: Skeptical enviro Bjorn Lomborg discusses post-Kyoto roadmap, calls Kyoto " feel good strategy " ( OnPoint, 12 December 2007 )
After the revolution Egypt ’ s foreign exchange reserves fell from $ 36 billion in December 2010 to only $ 16. 3 billion in January 2012, also in February 2012 Standard & Poor ’ s rating agency lowered the Egypt ’ s credit rating from B + to B in the long term.
Eurotunnel Chairman & Chief Executive Jacques Gounon said that experience gained from the disruptions of December 2009 had shown that shorter trains are easier to evacuate in an emergency.
Cable & Wireless launched " Touch " a GSM 900 mobile service during December 2005.
On December 6, 2007, FASA founder Jordan Weisman announced that his new venture, Smith & Tinker, had licensed the electronic gaming rights to MechWarrior, Shadowrun, and Crimson Skies from Microsoft.
The Home Office removed gunpowder from its list of Permitted Explosives ; and shortly afterwards, on 31 December 1931, the former Curtis & Harvey's Glynneath gunpowder factory at Pontneddfechan, in Wales, closed down, and it was demolished by fire in 1932.
However, this did not give them enough capital to publish the rules for Dungeons & Dragons and, worried that other companies would be able to publish similar projects first, the two convinced acquaintance Brian Blume to join TSR in December 1973 as an equal one-third partner.
Hoover was made a partner in Bewick, Moreing & Co. on December 18, 1901 and assumed responsibility for various Australian operations and investments.
The Russian Strategic Rocket Forces have 369 ICBMs able to deliver 1, 247 nuclear warheads, 58 silo-based R-36M2 ( SS-18 ), 70 silo-based UR-100N ( SS-19 ), 171 mobile RT-2PM " Topol " ( SS-25 ), 52 silo-based RT-2UTTH " Topol M " ( SS-27 ), 18 mobile RT-2UTTH " Topol M " ( SS-27 ), 6 ( 15 in December 2011 ) mobile RS-24 " Yars " ( SS-29 ) ( Future replacement for R-36 & UR-100N missiles )
* Oral History interview transcript with John Bardeen 12, 16 May, 1, 22 December 1977 & 4 April 1978, American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library and Archives
* Minds, Machines & Evolution ISBN 978-0-553-27288-8-1988 ( republished by Baen, December 1999 )
Gertrud played the piano and accompanied her own singing but, after three pregnancies in as many years, experienced a mental breakdown and was institutionalized in December 1932, followed a few months later by the death of her younger son, Hermann ( Kurtz 1992, 8, 11, & 13 ).
Lava / Atlantic Records A & R man Andy Karp was interested, after seeing Kid Rock in Cleveland in December 1996 and again in March 1997.
Top sectors attracting FDI inflows from Mauritius ( from January 2000 to December, 2005 ) are electrical equipment, telecommunications, fuels, cement & gypsum products and services sector ( financial & non-financial ).
In December 1939 he was commissioned by Chatto & Windus to illustrate a children's book, Ride a Cock Horse and Other Nursery Rhymes, published for the Christmas market in 1940.
His firm, Yamasaki & Associates, closed on December 31, 2009.
* Download: Lord Stevens ' 832-page Operation Paget Report Into The Deaths of Diana, Princess of Wales, Dodi Fayed & Henri Paul 14 December 2006
* Total Touchdowns, Game: 4 Joe Horn ( December 14, 2003 vs New York Giants ) & Reggie Bush ( December 3, 2006 vs San Francisco 49ers )
* The P & O ship Nepaul sank on the Shagstone in December 1890.
In December 2009, the Los Angeles Times reported that the owners of Rolling Stone magazine planned to open a Rolling Stone restaurant in the Hollywood & Highland Center in Hollywood, California in the spring of 2010.
They finished the regular season with 11 straight wins ( tying the 1961 team record & is also tied for the 5th longest win streak entering the playoffs ), finished with an impressive 13 – 3 record, ( including 4 – 0 in December, extending their NFL record with 18 straight wins in December, & also tying the Dolphins 1970 – 1974 in November for the longest winning streak in any month ).
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