The government took no action, and handed the final parts of Bakassi over to Cameroon on 14 August 2008 as planned, but a Federal High Court had stated this should be delayed until all accommodations for resettled Bakassians had been settled ; the government did not seem to plan to heed this court order, and did set the necessary mechanisms into motion to override it.

* 2008 – War in Somalia: The militaries of Somalia's Transitional Federal Government and Ethiopian troops capture Mogadishu unopposed.

According to a decision by The Standing Conference of the Ministers of Education and Cultural Affairs of the Länder in the Federal Republic of Germany of September 21, 2001, in the version from May 15, 2008, this also applies to PhDs that were awarded in Australia, Israel, Japan, or Canada.

On 17 January 2008, the Judge of the 17th Federal Court of Minas Gerais State forbade the sales of the game in the whole Brazilian territory.

For example, on September 16, 2008, the Federal Reserve Board authorized an $ 85 billion loan to stave off the bankruptcy of international insurance giant American International Group ( AIG ).

" Space Rush: Local Impact of Federal Aerospace Programs on Brevard and Surrounding Counties ," Florida Historical Quarterly, Fall 2008, Vol.

Because of the split-off of the Conservative Democratic Party from the Swiss People's Party in 2008, since then the latter holds again only one seat in the Federal Council as of 2011.

In 2008, 322 million passengers used the Swiss Federal Railways.

Following the 2008 appeal by ATI over the validity of (' 327 ) and Silicon Graphics Inc's voluntary dismissal of the (' 376 ) patent from the lawsuit, the Federal Circuit upheld the jury verdict on the validity of GPHI's US Patent No. 6, 650, 327, and furthermore found that AMD had lost its right to challenge patent validity in future proceedings.

On 14 February 2008, the Federal Labor Government appointed Bracks to head an inquiry into the ongoing viability of the Australian car industry.

In Davis v. Federal Election Commission, 554 U. S. 724 ( 2008 ), the Supreme Court declared the " Millionaire's Amendment " provisions of the BCRA to be unconstitutional.

** W. Mark Felt, American Federal Bureau of Investigation Associate Director and Deep Throat Watergate informant ( d. 2008 )

The first months of 2008 was a particularly troublesome period which caused Federal Reserve chairman Benjamin Bernanke to " work holidays and weekends " and which did an " extraordinary series of moves.

* Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, " Understanding Inflation and the Implications for Monetary Policy: A Phillips Curve Retrospective ", Conference Series 53, June 9 – 11, 2008, Chatham, Massachusetts.

Federal officials started a flood in the Grand Canyon in hopes of restoring its ecosystem on March 5, 2008.

A series of " bailout " packages, including the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008, proposed and implemented by the Federal Reserve and U. S. Treasury, as well as FDIC-sponsored bank mergers, did not prevent further losses.

The first U. S. Government interagency graduate was John Riodan, of the United States Agency for International Development ( USAID ), who attended the AMSP in 2007 – 2008 ; the first Federal Bureau of Investigation student, Special Agent Danny Day, attended the AOASF beginning in 2009.

In response, the Federal Reserve decided to continue cutting interest rates, down to a near-zero range as of December 16, 2008.

Schakel, Arjan H. ( 2008 ), ' Validation of the Regional Authority Index ', Regional and Federal Studies, Routeledge, Vol.

* Golland, David Hamilton, " Constructing Affirmative Action: Federal Contract Compliance and the Building Construction Trades, 1956 – 1973 " ( PhD dissertation City University of New York, 2008 ).

* 2008 United States Federal Courthouse, District of Massachusetts, Springfield, Massachusetts, USA

Federal Medicaid outlays were estimated to be $ 204 billion in 2008.

Current well-known economists include 2008 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences winner Paul Krugman, a public intellectual and advocate of modern liberal policies ; Alan Greenspan, the former chairman of the Federal Reserve ; Ben Bernanke, the current Chairman of the Federal Reserve ; Joseph Stiglitz, an American economist, Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics winner, critic of inequality and the governance of globalization, and Chief Economist of the World Bank.

* United States presidential inauguration, held every four years since 1937 ( with 2 exceptions by Eisenhower & Reagan, on January 21st because January 20 was a Sunday and 1985 ) in odd-numbered years after years when the United States Presidential Election takes place ( as the election takes place in years divisible by four – 2004, 2008, 2012, and so on – the inauguration takes place in 2005, 2009, 2013, etc .).

" However, since 8 March 2008 General Election, media's coverage on country's politics has been noticeably increased, making the politics more transparent to the citizens.

A liberal political activist, she endorsed Barack Obama for the United States Presidential Election and later performed on the 4th and last day of the 2008 Democratic National Convention.

After the General Election in 2008, successive government abandoned the telecom pool projects and continued liberalization process which had been undergone since 2000.

O ' Rourke was a " Real Time Real Reporter " for Real Time with Bill Maher covering the 2008 Presidential Election.

Almost all elected officials are Republican, but in the 2008 Presidential Election, Barack Obama carried Dutchess with 53 % of the vote.

This issue arose during the 2008 Presidential Election in connection with the ensuing Financial Crises.

In the 2008 United States Presidential Election, Barack Obama won Kent County by 48 votes more than John McCain.

The area is heavily Republican, and John McCain took over 70 % of the vote in the 2008 Presidential Election.

Sheen initially endorsed New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson in the 2008 U. S. Presidential Election, and helped raise funds for his campaign.

During California's 2008 General Election, Curtis appeared in the " YES on Prop 3 " TV advertisements.

He supported Barack Obama in the 2008 Presidential Election and opposed Proposition 8, calling it " nothing but hate and discrimination ".

In the 2008 U. S. Presidential Election Barack Obama received 71. 3 % of the county's vote.

El Paso County is historically Democratic due to its large Latino population and the 2008 Presidential Election was no exception.

* Brian Paddick, the candidate for the Liberal Democrats in the 2008 London Mayoral Election.

The county is a traditional stronghold for the Republican Party, with a substantial conservative population, although the 2008 Presidential Election marked the first time since 1964 a Democratic Presidential candidate received more votes than his Republican opponent.

After the 2005 General Election, Erith and Thamesmead is represented by a Labour Party MP while the remaining two seats were held by the Conservative Party ; although on 29 January 2008 the Conservative Party whip was withdrawn from Old Bexley and Sidcup's MP Derek Conway following alleged misuse of funds, leaving him as an Independent MP.

In the 2008 Presidential Election Menifee County was one of eight in the state of Kentucky where the majority of voters voted for Barack Obama.

Al Gore used " Let the Day Begin " as his campaign song in the 2000 U. S. Presidential Election and Tom Vilsack used it as his song during his brief 2008 U. S. Presidential Election campaign.

In the 2008 Election, Barack Obama won Encinitas with 62. 31 % of the vote.

During the 2008 U. S Presidential Election, David supported and actively campaigned for Barack Obama.

Barack Obama leased a North American Airlines plane for use during his successful 2008 United States Presidential Election campaign.