Over half of the tax revenues in the January – August 2008 time period were generated from value-added taxes ( VAT ).

In 2008, effective January 1, 2009, the ADAAA broadened the interpretations and added to the ADA examples of " major life activities " including, but not limited to, " caring for oneself, performing manual tasks, seeing, hearing, eating, sleeping, walking, standing, lifting, bending, speaking, breathing, learning, reading, concentrating, thinking, communicating, and working " as well as the operation of several specified " major bodily functions ".

On January 17, 2008, NYSE Euronext announced it would acquire the AMEX for $ 260 million in stock ; on October 1, 2008, NYSE Euronext completed the acquisition.

On January 13, 2008, the Falcons named former Patriots director of college football scouting Thomas Dimitroff General Manager.

On 4 January 2008, Dr. Gail Dinter-Gottlieb decided to step down as President and Vice Chancellor of the University before her term expired.

OnStar transitioned to digital service with the help of data transport technology developed by Airbiquity, but warned customers who could not be upgraded to digital that their service would permanently expire on January 1, 2008.

On January 11, 2008, Talk Is Free Theatre presented the Canadian professional premiere ( in concert ) at the Gryphon Theatre in Barrie, Ontario, with a fundraiser performance on January 13 at the Diesel Playhouse in Toronto, Ontario.

The Stephen Sondheim Center for the Performing Arts produced a limited-run revival of the musical from January 11 to 27, 2008.

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.

However, in January 2008, Selig agreed to a three-year contract extension, announcing he planned to retire after the 2012 season.

* On 24 January 2008, Peter Hain resigned his two cabinet posts ( Secretary of State for Work and Pensions and Secretary of State for Wales ) after the Electoral Commission referred donations to his Deputy Leadership campaign to the police.

In the UK in 2009 it was estimated that up to 12 million shoppers appeared at the sales ( a rise of almost 20 % compared to 2008, although this was also affected by the fact that the VAT would revert to 17. 5 % from 1 January ).

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On 1 January 2008, the country entered the eurozone and adopted the euro as its official currency, replacing the Cypriot pound at an irrevocable fixed exchange rate of CYP 0. 585274 per EUR 1. 00.

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This eliminated the human reservoir of the disease and reduced hospital admissions to 1 % or less of January 2008 levels.

On 13 November 2008, Cessna announced that a total of 665 jobs would be cut at its Wichita and Bend, Oregon plants starting in January 2009.

In January 2008, shortly before plans to retire to Blackpool, Vera's husband Jack found that she had died in her armchair.

The Australian Government has introduced legislation that requires ISP's to " restrict access to age restricted content ( commercial MA15 + content and R18 + content ) either hosted in Australia or provided from Australia " that was due to commence from 20 January 2008, known as Cleanfeed.

She left the production on December 30, 2007, and later returned from August 26, 2008 until the production closed on January 11, 2009.

* January 12 – Jeff Bezos, American Internet entrepreneur

* January 31 – Jeff Hanneman, American rock guitarist ( Slayer )

* January 8 – Jeff Abercrombie, American rock musician ( Fuel )

* January 21 – Jeff Koons, American artist

In 1999, the company hired former assistant attorney general Anne Bingaman, married to Democratic New Mexico Senator Jeff Bingaman, as a Washington lobbyist, paying her $ 2. 5 million between January and June 1999 to try to block licensing of an AT & T, MCI, and Sprint consortium cable from the U. S. to Japan.

Jeffrey Preston " Jeff " Bezos (; born January 12, 1964 ) is an American entrepreneur who played a key role in the growth of e-commerce as the founder and CEO of Amazon. com, Inc., an online merchant of books and later of a wide variety of products.

On January 7, 2006, after weeks of growing pressure from Republican colleagues, and particularly from Reps. Charlie Bass and Jeff Flake, who wanted to avoid being associated with DeLay's legal issues in an election year, DeLay announced that he would not seek to regain his position as Majority Leader.

New head executive Jeff Plush had taken over the business responsibilities of the club when he was named Managing Director in January 2006.

Several people involved in the show from its beginnings died during this period: Jim Henson in 1990 at the age of 53 " from a runaway strep infection gone stubbornly, foolishly untreated "; songwriter Joe Raposo from non-Hodgkin's lymphoma fifteen months earlier ; long-time cast member Northern Calloway of cardiac arrest in January 1990 ; puppeteer Richard Hunt of AIDS in early 1992 ; CTW founder and producer David Connell of bladder cancer in 1995 ; director Jon Stone of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis in 1997 ; and writer Jeff Moss of colon cancer in 1998.

In January 1995, the band released " The Ballad of Peter Pumpkinhead " ( a cover of XTC's 1992 track ) as a single and on the soundtrack of the Jim Carrey and Jeff Daniels comedy Dumb and Dumber.

On January 9, 2012, Goldenvoice revealed that Jeff Mangum would appear on the Saturday bill for the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival.

Jefferson Davis ( May 6, 1862 – January 3, 1913 ), commonly known as Jeff Davis, was a Democratic United States Senator from Arkansas and the 20th Governor of the U. S. state of Arkansas.

Although Raven did win his way back onto the Raw roster, he only had one match ( losing to Jeff Hardy in a Royal Rumble qualifier ) before being released from WWE the following week on January 20, 2003.

Raven debuted in TNA Wrestling on January 22, 2003, two days after his release from WWE, attacking and hitting his finisher on Jeff Jarrett and stealing the NWA World Heavyweight Title from him.

From September 1987 – January 1988, the Saatchi Gallery mounted two exhibitions entitled New York Art Now, featuring Jeff Koons, Robert Gober, Peter Halley, Haim Steinbach, Philip Taaffe and Caroll Dunham.

In January 1981, 19-year-old Jeff Dailey died of a heart attack soon after posting a score of 16, 660 on Berzerk.

Jeff Nuttall ( July 8, 1933 – January 4, 2004 ) was an English poet, publisher, actor, painter, sculptor, jazz trumpeter, anarchist sympathiser and social commentator who was a key part of the British 1960s counter-culture.

At TNA's Final Resolution PPV event on January 15, 2006, Cage participated in his first TNA PPV main event by teaming with Sting to defeat the team of Monty Brown and Jeff Jarrett.

In addition to Jeff Christie ( born Jeffrey Christie, 12 July 1946, St Martin's Road, Leeds, Yorkshire, England ) their vocalist, bassist and songwriter ; they initially included guitarist Vic Elmes and drummer Mike Blakley ( born Michael Blakley, 12 January 1947, Bromley, Kent, England ).

In January, guitarist Jeff Wilson came in to replace Bolin and the band's 1980 release, " Firin ' Up ", spawned the hits " Let Me Love You Tonight " and " I'm Almost Ready " both sung by Gill, with saxophone accompaniment by David Sanborn.

On 14 January 2011, Jeff Scheel revealed a unreleased music video for " Down " on Youtube and told some people on Facebook it was a " previously unreleased Gravity Kills video ", he got the video from Kurt Kerns when Kurt recovered the video by capturing it on a videotape when it was aired and then he passed the videotape footage to Jeff.

Flat Stanley is a 1964 children's book written by Jeff Brown ( January 1, 1926 – December 3, 2003 ) and originally illustrated by Tomi Ungerer.

The Jeff Beck Group was an English rock band formed in London in January 1967 by former Yardbirds guitarist Jeff Beck.