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 ).

led to the January 2008 bulk-sampling of kimberlite pipes in a remote part of Montana.

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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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122. 9 billion cu m ( 1 January 2008 est.

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.

Bonewits encouraged charity programs to help Neopagan seniors, and in January 2006 was the keynote speaker at the Conference On Current Pagan Studies at the Claremont Graduate University in Claremont, CA.

That same year, Simon and Garfunkel contributed heavily to the soundtrack to Mike Nichols ' film The Graduate, which was released on January 21, 1968, and instantly rose to No. 1 as an album.

The Graduate School of Fudan University was established on November 6, 1984 and the Graduate School of Shanghai Medical University on January 25, 1985.

January 25, 2007, the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology ( HKUST ) officially named its Graduate School in Nansha as HKUST Fok Ying Tung Graduate School in a ceremony that combined the official opening of the Graduate School and the ground breaking of its Nansha campus.

He joined the University of Cape Town as a visiting professor in the Graduate School of Humanities ( from January 2000 ) and is also involved with the Gorée Institute in Dakar ( Senegal ) and with New York University, where he teaches in the Graduate Creative Writing Program.

In January 2012, Kennedy accepted the position of Director of the George Washington University Graduate School of Political Management.

In January 1999, the AGSM and the Graduate School of Business of the University of Sydney merged under the AGSM brand.

* Author Breyten Breytenbach, visiting professor in the Graduate School of Humanities from January 2000.

Webometrics published in January 2010 ranked its Faculty of Business and Law the ninth best business school in Australia, and MBA programme was given a five star rating by Graduate Management Association of Australia in 2010.

Alain Badiou ( ; born 17 January 1937 ) is a French philosopher, professor at European Graduate School, formerly chair of Philosophy at the École Normale Supérieure ( ENS ).

In January 1959, the University added a Graduate School which received full approval from the State Board of Education in August of that year.

Raman Lamba ( 2 January 1960 in Uttar Pradesh – 23 February 1998 in Dhaka ) was an Indian cricketer who played in four Tests and 32 One Day Internationals, mainly as a batsman died in the Post Graduate Hospital in Dhaka in Bangladesh after three days of vain efforts by a team of doctors, ever since he was seriously hit on the forehead by a full blooded pull by Mehrab Hossain off left arm spinner Saifullah Khan while fielding at forward short leg, without a helmet, for Dhaka's leading club, Abahani Krira Chakra, in the final of the Premier Division cricket match versus Mohammendan Sporting Club at the Dhaka Bangabandhu Stadium.

Two affiliate schools were constructed in 1978, and the Graduate School of International Management and Graduate School of Education installed in January 1979 to support and improve the quality of professionals.

The Clear Lake Graduate Center opened in January 1972.

However, effective on January 2, 2010, the GLI was transferred to the Claremont Graduate University in Claremont, California and was renamed " The Getty Leadership Institute at Claremont Graduate University ".

The Graduate School of Food and Agriculture was established in January of the following year.

Harms Hall, a dormitory, opened in January 2000 more than doubling campus resident capacity. The first Graduate program was developed during this period.

Post-graduate Diploma in International Human Rights Law ( April, 2002 ), Certificate Course in International Refugee and Humanitarian Law ( August, 2002 ), Certificate Course in International Refugee and Humanitarian Law ( October, 2002 ), Post-graduate diploma in International Law of Human Rights ( April, 2003 ), Certificate Course in International Environmental Law ( September, 2003 ), Certificate Course in Children ’ s Rights Law ( January, 2004 ), Post-graduate Diploma in International Law of Human Rights ( March, 2004 ), Post Graduate Diploma in International Human Rights Law ( 2006 ),

Anne was particularly close to Emily especially after Charlotte's departure for Roe Head School, in January 1831.

Hill accepted a position as a visiting scholar at the Institute for the Study of Social Change at University of California, Berkeley in January 1997, but soon joined the faculty of Brandeis University — first at the Women's Studies Program, later moving to the Heller School for Social Policy and Management.

1828 – January 9, 1901 ) was a Black Canadian painter whose tonalism and predominantly pastoral subject matter owed much to his admiration for Millet and the French Barbizon School.

George Robert Aberigh-Mackay ( July 25, 1848 – January 12, 1881 ), Anglo-Indian writer, son of a Bengal chaplain, was educated at Magdalen College School, Oxford and Cambridge University.

In January 1917 Newman took up a teaching post at Archbishop Holgate's Grammar School in York, leaving in April 1918.

School summer holidays in Australia begin in mid-December and end in late January, with the dates varying between states.

* Umeå School of Education-aka: USE, was inaugurated in January 2009 to replace the former Faculty of Teacher Education.

In 1911 the company name was changed to Vickers Ltd and expanded its operations into aircraft manufacture by the formation of Vickers Ltd ( Aviation Department ) and a Vickers School of Flying was opened at Brooklands, Surrey on 20 January 1912.

* 2007 television series The Sarah Jane Adventures is set in this time, the earliest January following " a year and a half " after Doctor Who episode " School Reunion ".

* January 11 – Wang Chongyang, Chinese Daoist and co-founder of the Quanzhen School ( d. 1170 )

* January 22 – Wang Chongyang, Chinese Daoist and co-founder of the Quanzhen School ( b. 1113 )

The opera was presented in January 2005 by the North Carolina School for Arts

The Cell Scene ( Revised Version ) was first performed on 16 January 1879 in Kononov Hall, at a concert of the Free School of Music, in the presence of Mussorgsky.

* The Hubert H. Humphrey School of Public Affairs at the University of Minnesota and its building, the Hubert H. Humphrey Center ( formerly Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs ; changed in January 2011 )

* Internet Concert Project: Album for the Young Student New Music, an online performance and documentary feature from Bloomingdale School of Music ( January 2010 )

Born in Yokosuka, Kanagawa prefecture on 8 January 1942, Koizumi was educated at Yokosuka High School and Keio University, where he studied economics.

Ussher was a gifted polyglot, entering Dublin Free School and then the newly-founded ( 1591 ) Trinity College, Dublin on 9 January 1594, at the age of thirteen ( not an unusual age at the time ).

In January 1976 the band took a more substantial form of what would be when Ceccagno formed Malice with Smith and Dempsey along with two other classmates from St. Wilfrid's Catholic Comprehensive School, with Ceccagno on lead, Smith on guitar, and Dempsey switching to bass.

On January 27, 1893, Idaho Governor William J. McConnell signed an Act authorizing the establishment of the Lewiston State Normal School in Lewiston.

The School did experience a painful crisis in January 1917.

* January 30, 1968: Miami, Florida 16-year-old Blanche Ward shot and killed fellow student Linda Lipscomb, 16, with a. 22-caliber pistol at Miami Jackson High School.

* January 29, 1979: Grover Cleveland Elementary School Shootings, California, where 16-year-old Brenda Ann Spencer opened fire with a rifle, a gift from her father, killing 2 and wounding 9.

* January 20, 1983: St. Louis County, Missouri Parkway South Middle School The eighth grade shooter brought a blue duffel bag containing two pistols and a murder / suicide note that outlined his intention to kill the next person heard speaking ill of his older brother, Ken, to school.

* January 17, 1989: Cleveland School massacre of Stockton, California where 5 school children were killed and 30 wounded by a single gunman firing over 100 rounds into a schoolyard from an AK-47, in which the perpetrator later took his life.