The Armenian government collected 383. 5 billion drams ($ 1. 26 billion ) in various taxes in the first nine months of 2008 ( a 33. 2 percent increase from the same period last year ).

In October 2008 the Russian bank Gazprombank, the banking arm of Gazprom, acquired 100 percent of Armenian bank Areximbank after previously buying 80 percent of said bank in November 2007 and 94. 15 percent in July of the same year.

In July 2008 the price of oil peaked and began to decline and Alberta's economy soon followed suit, with unemployment doubling within a year.

In 2007 the international rules series was abandoned because of the aggression and the severity of the Australian team in the previous year, but in 2008, under new rules to protect the player with the ball, it resumed in Australia.

Demographics of Botswana, Data of Food and Agriculture Organisation | FAO, year 2008 ; Number of inhabitants in thousands.

Even in the last pre-crisis year, 2008, the Bulgarian economy was growing rapidly at 6. 0 %, despite significantly slowing down in the last quarter.

On 30 October 2008 a spokesman for the team announced that the team would complete its last three performances of the year with five jets instead of six.

On Jan. 1 2008 Costa Rica started its third year term on the Security council.

Some tracks and demos from the album ( initially planned for release in 2008 ) were leaked on the internet in 2006, and a documentary entitled The Return of Courtney Love, detailing the making of the album, aired on the British television network in the fall of that year.

For example, during the eight-year period ending in 2008, despite overall growth in music sales and one anomalous year of increase, major-label CD sales declined overall by 20 %.

The series was extended a year to show the process of getting the 2008 Cheerleaders ready.

In 2008 16: 10 became the most common sold aspect ratio for LCD monitors and the same year 16: 10 was the mainstream standard for laptops and notebooks.

In the tumultuous 2008 season, the Cowboys started off strong, going 3 – 0 for the second straight year, en route to a 4 – 1 start.

In 2008 the rivalry became more intense when in the last game of the year in which both teams could clinch a playoff spot with a victory, the Philadelphia Eagles defeated the Cowboys 44 – 6, and clinched a playoff spot, where they would go to lose the NFC Championship game to the Arizona Cardinals.

Beginning in the 2008 – 2009 academic year, Dartmouth instituted a new financial aid policy extending need-blind admission to international students and replaced all student loans with scholarships and grants.

On January 1, 2008, the Master of the Order declared a year of dedication to the Rosary.

Since 2008, the International Association of Bomb Technicians and Investigators ( IABTI ) have sponsored a nationwide charity campaign in the U. S., building beeping Easter eggs every year for visually impaired children.

Inflation rate up to January 2008 was located about 1. 14 %, the highest recorded in the last year, according to Government.

The highest available speed through ADSL technologies was upgraded to 8MB in download in February 2008 and then to 24MB later that year.

However, in 2008 the Food Festival was cancelled due to numerous complaints of disruption to residents and some businesses in the immediate proximity ; it has been replaced by a series of smaller events, spread out over the year.

On 24 September 2008, Film London, the capital ’ s film and media agency launched The New Black, a two year funding and training programme that will expand opportunities for theatrical exhibition of Black film in London.

In 2008, “ First Ladies at the Smithsonian ” opened at the National Museum of American History as part of its reopening year celebration.

* The Men's World Floorball Championships take place every December ( since 2008 ) in every even year.

* The Women's under-19 World Floorball Championships take place every May ( since 2008 ) in every even year.

The FDA's federal budget request for fiscal year ( FY ) 2008 ( October 2007 through September 2008 ) totaled $ 2. 1 billion, a $ 105. 8 million increase from what it received for fiscal year 2007.

The two teams met twice a year ( interrupted in 1982 by a player strike ) 1970 – 2001 ; with the move of the Colts to the AFC South the two teams ' rivalry actually escalated, as they met three times in the playoffs in the South's first nine seasons of existence ; the Jets crushed the Colts 41 – 0 in the 2002 Wild Card playoff round ; the Colts then defeated the Jets 30 – 17 in the 2009 AFC Championship Game ; but the next year in the Wild Card round the Jets pulled off another playoff upset of the Colts, winning 17 – 16 ; it was Peyton Manning's final playoff game with the Colts.

That same year he drew cartoon illustrations for Bernard Shir-Cliff's The Wild Reader, also for Ballantine.

While the Brewers were still holding on to the Wild Card lead, the division was never seriously challenged for the remainder of the year.

* Construction of the Giant Wild Goose Pagoda in Chang ' an ( modern Xi ' an ), Tang Dynasty China, is completed in this year during the reign of Emperor Gaozong of Tang.

The following year, he received an Oscar nomination for his part in George Cukor's Wild Is the Wind.

That same year he also played an Indian Maharajah on the instalment of the adventure series The Wild Wild West titled " The Night of the Golden Cobra.

In the same year the Shropshire landowner Eadric the Wild, in alliance with the Welsh rulers of Gwynedd and Powys, raised a revolt in western Mercia, fighting Norman forces based in Hereford.

The Ocmulgee Wild Hog Festival takes place in Abbeville, Georgia every year on the Saturday before Mother's Day.

Every year in Zimmerman on Memorial Day weekend there is a community event called the " Wild West Days ".

At the beginning of the following year, UFO released the self-produced The Wild, the Willing and the Innocent, which had a lighter pop rock sound, which was popular at the time.

Muniz was also part of the ensemble for the gang film Deuces Wild, released that same year.

They re-scheduled their tour for the following year, calling it the " Ladies Gone Wild " Tour, and on August 11, 2011 the band received the 2, 444th star on the Hollywood Walk Of Fame located at the site of where small punk rock club " The Masque " used to stand.

In 1998, Brennan signed with Word Records and released Perfect Time, and Whisper to the Wild Water a year later.

Wild meerkats may have up to four litters per year.

The following year she appeared in the comedy Wild Hogs alongside John Travolta, Tim Allen, William H. Macy and Martin Lawrence.

That same year, a compilation CD of her work was released on Capitol's Ultra-Lounge label: Wild, Cool & Swingin ', The Artist Collection Vol.

The company acquired the Eldorado and Jokers Wild ( which had previously been owned directly by the Boyd family ) in 1993 ; later that year, Boyd Gaming acquired Main Street Station Hotel and Casino and Brewery.

The group also appeared at Live Aid the following year and played four of their hit singles (" Vienna ", " Reap the Wild Wind ", " Dancing with Tears in My Eyes " and " One Small Day ").

Other theatres that occasionally perform with marionettes are the Little Angel Theatre founded by John and Lyndie Wright in Islington, London, Whose first ever show The Wild Night Of The Witches was a marionette play, It opened the theatre in 1961 and was revived for the 50th anniversary in 2011 The Norwich Puppet Theatre founded by Ray & Joan DaSilva sometimes present marionette shows and the Puppet Theatre Barge continue to perform using long string marionettes throughout the year, founded by Gren Middleton and Juliet Rogers The barge is based in Little Venice, London during the winter months and tours to places such as Richmond Upon Thames during the summer.

During the time he was at ESPN Maguire called playoff games for ABC every year except for 2002, when the network elected to use Brent Musburger and Gary Danielson, its lead college football broadcast team, on Wild Card Saturday.

In the same year, Humphries also made his first commercial recording, the EP Wild Life in Suburbia, which featured liner notes by his friend, the Modernist architect and writer Robin Boyd.