In early 2008, the State Commission for the Protection of Economic Competition named 60 companies having " dominant positions " in Armenia.

Since early 2008, Armenia's entire rail network is managed by the Russian state railway.

As of early 2008, the wholesale price for abalone meat was approximately US $ 40. 00 per kilogram.

In 2008, psychology professor Benny Shanon published a controversial hypothesis that a brew analogous to Ayahuasca was heavily connected to early Judaism, and that the effects of this brew were responsible for some of the most significant events of Moses ' life, including his vision of the burning bush.

After the victory of the PdL in the 2008 general election, AN was merged into the PdL in early 2009.

Notably, in the recession of late 2008, a record number of retailers were holding early promotions due to a weak economy.

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.

In the national elections held in early months of 2008 the DPP won less than 25 % of the seats ( 38. 2 % vote share ) in the new Legislative Yuan while its presidential candidate, former Kaohsiung mayor Frank Hsieh, lost to KMT candidate Ma Ying-jeou by a wide margin ( 41. 55 % vs. 58. 45 %).

Addis Ababa Station in the early evening, 2008

Palamar ( 2008 ) notes an overshadowing by mainstream environmentalism of pioneering women in the early 1900s who fought for urban health ecology and brought about changes in environmental legislation.

From June 2007 on, data indicated a moderate La Niña event, which strengthened in early 2008 and weakened before the start of 2009 ; the 2007 – 2008 La Niña event was the strongest since the 1988 – 1989 event.

The development will include a hotel, some shops and some housing but it was discovered early in 2008 that it is unlikely to be completed before 2020.

Many international artists such as Banksy have left their work in Melbourne and in early 2008 a perspex screen was installed to prevent a Banksy stencil art piece from being destroyed, it has survived since 2003 through the respect of local street artists avoiding posting over it, although it has recently had paint tipped over it.

President Saakashvili rejected all demands that he resign his position, but announced early presidential elections to be held in January 2008, effectively cutting his term in office by a year.

In the early hours of 23 December 2008, Aboubacar Somparé, the President of the National Assembly, announced on television that Conté had died at 6: 45pm local time on 22 December " after a long illness ", without specifying the cause of death.

In 2008, the first bud also appeared very early, on 19 February.

However, despite these laws, East Timor has many problems with illegally armed militias, including widespread violence in 2006 which resulted in over 100, 000 people being forced from their homes, as well as two separate assassination attempts on the Prime Minister and President in early 2008.

Despite multiple parliamentary questions from as early as 2005, where it was stated that there was no proof that this was happening, Minister Ahern announced a ban on all handguns in November 2008.

While strips in this vein can be found online as early as 2006, the 2008 site Garfield Minus Garfield by Dan Walsh received enough online attention to be covered by news media.

In early 1999, the source code of Heretic was published by Raven Software under a license that granted rights to non-commercial use, and was re-released under the GNU General Public License on September 4, 2008.

The government called early elections in September 2007 ( normally, elections would have been held in March 2008 ), and New Democracy again was the majority party in the Parliament.

Since the early 1960s, it has published 12 volumes, the first in 1971 and most recently in 2008 ; three more volumes are planned.

Until 2004 ( in 2005 – 2007 the Jaguars went back to wearing white at home for early season games ) and then 2008, the Jaguars would always wear their white jerseys for afternoon games at home during the first half of the season.

Noted Chicago Tribune columnist Bob Greene penned a 2008 book, When We Get to Surf City: A Journey Through America in Pursuit of Rock and Roll, Friendship, and Dreams, detailing his occasional appearances with Jan & Dean's touring band throughout the 1990s and early 2000s.

But in early 2009, Caltrain reversed its position and announced that it would be expanding bicycle capacity by 8 spots by removing some seats in the bike cars, bringing bike capacity to 40 bikes on gallery cars and 24 bikes on Bombardier cars.

After a hiatus of several centuries, formal commentary by Eustratius and Michael of Ephesus reappears in the late eleventh and early twelfth centuries, apparently sponsored by Anna Comnena

In these early Baroque operas, broad comedy was blended with tragic elements in a mix that jarred some educated sensibilities, sparking the first of opera's many reform movements, sponsored by Venice's Arcadian Academy which came to be associated with the poet Metastasio, whose libretti helped crystallize the genre of opera seria, which became the leading form of Italian opera until the end of the 18th century.

Nevertheless, Henry sponsored the publication of Edmund's early poetry, which gave the younger man entrée to new friends of literary importance, and the two men " came out of the years of conflict with their relationship wary but intact.

The World Poetry Bout Association sponsored the earliest slam poetry workshops for teenagers, through its " Poetry Education Project " in Taos, New Mexico, in the early 1990s.

Gulf Oil was most synonymous for its association with auto racing, as it famously sponsored the John Wyer Automotive team in the 1960s and early ' 70s.

Havoline sponsored a NASCAR race car continuously from the early 1980s through the 2008 season.

In the early 1960s, Burr narrated one film and appeared in several others sponsored by the U. S. Public Health Service.

The United States Department of War sponsored the development of interchangeable parts for guns produced at the arsenals at Springfield, Massachusetts and Harpers Ferry, Virginia ( now West Virginia ) in the early decades of the 19th century, finally achieving reliable interchangeability by about 1850.

Hewitt developed an early interest in the radio and as a teenager accompanied his father, W. A. Hewitt, on a trip to Detroit, Michigan to see a demonstration of radio technology sponsored by General Electric.

He was an early enthusiast for the writings of Jorge Luis Borges and invited the Argentinian to Australia in 1938 to give a short series of lectures in Melbourne sponsored by Bohemia magazine.

When daytime serials began in the early 1930s, they became known as soap operas because many were sponsored by soap products and detergents.

OSA sponsored regular concert tours by Khan to the U. K. from the early ' 80s onwards, and released much of this live material on cassette, CD, videotape and DVD. G

He may also have sponsored an early version of The Song of Roland.

Until recently the city has sponsored an annual Filbert Festival in early August as a general summer celebration, featuring music, food, and family fun ; this was canceled in 2007 due to withdrawal of a key sponsor, and the future for the festival is presently uncertain.

The Mud Drags are held in early June and sponsored by the local Rotary International group.

Andy Warhol during the early 1960s beginning to create films and video, in the mid-60s sponsored the Velvet Underground and staged events and performances in New York, like the Exploding Plastic Inevitable ( 1966 ) that featured live Rock music, exploding lights, and film.

The magazine previously sponsored cars in the Formula One circuit from the late 1970s to the early 1980s.

They were the winners of the Apple Records sponsored national talent contest early 1969, organised by Apple A & R head Peter Asher prior to his departure for the US.

In the early 1920s, the Potpourri, Northwestern ’ s yearbook, sponsored the first beauty pageant held on the university campus.

In 2005, she sponsored an unprecedented Senate resolution by which the US Senate apologized for its failure to enact anti-lynching legislation during the early 20th century, when it was very much needed.

In 2005 Landrieu sponsored a resolution, which the Senate passed in an unprecedented action, to formally apologize for its repeated failure in the early twentieth century to pass anti-lynching legislation.

Around 1962, Hunter was an early volunteer test subject ( along with Ken Kesey ) for psychedelic chemicals at Stanford University's research covertly sponsored by the CIA in their MKULTRA program.

Contrary to many opinions that voter backlash would occur, research early in the 2012 campaign indicated most voters found negative advertising informative and candidates benefited from negative advertising sponsored by PACs.

His flight was sponsored by department-store magnate Rodman Wanamaker, an early visionary of Trans-Atlantic commercial flight.

One of the early drivers of computer Go research was the Ing Prize, a relatively large money award sponsored by Taiwanese banker Ing Chang-ki, offered annually between 1985 and 2000 at the World Computer Go Congress ( or Ing Cup ).