While George Mason University is young compared to established research universities in Virginia, it has grown rapidly, reaching an enrollment of 30, 714 students in 2008.

While welcomed by the target shooting community, in 2008 opposition deputies Jim Deasy and Olivia Mitchell campaigned to ban these pistols on the grounds that they could be used in crime.

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.

While police control barriers are a common sight on African highways, and while illicit demands for bribes at such stops are common in many countries, the main Malian highway heading south from Bamako to the Burkina Faso border was singled out in late 2008 as the worst in West Africa.

While the company performed strongly last year, registering a 17 % growth in client base ( to 7. 4m ) over the first three quarters of 2008, it began to falter as consumer spending slowed, resulting in a 1 % annual increase in turnover for Q2 2009.

While his early compositional work was not widely known outside of Egypt at the time, El-Dabh would eventually gain recognition for his influential work at the Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center in the late 1950s ( Holmes 2008, 156 – 57 ).

While in opposition in 2008, the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats lobbied the Labour Government to change the law to allow Segways to use public cycle lanes.

While in 2005, there were about 27. 000 firms, in 2008 there were only 24. 000.

“ While there had been sound economic growth in years prior to 2008, there were still sizable fund balance drawdowns in both 2006 and 2007 ,” Fitch wrote.

While she did swim well, the shark fed only one time during her stay and was tagged and released on September 7, 2008.

While they may through sheer exposure become involved in causes or controversies ( as Paris Hilton did in the US presidential election, 2008 ) it's clearly not correct to label all individually unique talent or economic value as being an " intellectual " asset.

While the contamination was limited to just 9 pig farms, the Irish government requested the immediate withdrawal and disposal of all pork-containing products produced in Ireland and purchased since 1 September 2008.

While the diamond had disappeared for several decades, there were questions whether this recovered diamond in Britain was exactly the same one as had belonged to the French king, but subsequent scientific investigation in 2008 confirmed " beyond reasonable doubt " that the Hope Diamond and that owned by the French king were, in fact, the same gemstone in the sense that the Hope Diamond had been cut from the same material as the French Blue.

While Clinton County has historically been Republican like the rest of central Pennsylvania, Democrats captured the registration edge in early 2008.

While hosting the NAM summit on July 2, 2008, Bangladesh and Venezuela agreed to strengthen diplomatic ties.

While it was originally planned to reopen in time for the centenary on 25 May 2008, delays prevented this, and the house was finally reopened with a gala concert and 3D animations on 24 May 2010, the eve of its own 102nd birthday and the Argentina Bicentennial.

While there are close to 200 cognac producers, a large percentage of cognac — 90 % according to one 2008 estimate — is produced by only four companies: Courvoisier, Hennessy, Martell, and Rémy Martin.

While Gianni Paladini remained chairman of the football club, Alejandro Agag, as chairman of QPR Holdings ( the parent company ) was the de facto chairman, until he was replaced by Flavio Briatore in early February 2008.

While in the 2004 U. S. presidential election the county was carried by Republican George W. Bush by a margin of four votes, Democrat Barack Obama carried Monroe County in the 2008 U. S. presidential election by a 17 point margin, 58 % to 41 %.

While Don LaFontaine filled the category of " The Voice of God " until his death in 2008, Ashton Smith, Howard Parker and Miguel Ferrer provide most of the narration for movie trailers.

While the project was conceived and initiated before Norman's death, on May 27, 2008 the Arena Rock Recording company released Larry Norman – Rebel Poet, Jukebox Balladeer: The Anthology, " a posthumous collection " of a selection of Norman's pre-1978 songs " designed to belatedly introduce a mainstream audience to Norman's music ".

* While on the faculty of Chesapeake Biological Laboratory in nearby Solomons, noted theoretical ecologist Dr. Robert Ulanowicz resided near Prince Frederick prior to his retirement in 2008.

While some trails exist in this parcel, as of 2008 additional horse and hiking trails are under development and parking is still limited.

While other such facilities in the area have closed over the course of years, the Silver survived through public outcry over proposals to close and demolish it, making a comeback in 2005 .< Ref name =" one ">( 12 December 2008 ).

While Dior dressed Nazi wives, his sister Catherine ( 1917 — 2008 ) served as a member of the French Resistance, was captured by the Gestapo, and sent to the Ravensbrück concentration camp, where she was incarcerated until she was liberated in May 1945.

While popularly known as a reprint house, Gemstone's comics were actually dominated by stories that were new to United States audiences.

* Whitehorne, Joseph, W. A., While Washington Burned: The Battle for Fort Erie, 1814, 1992, reprint 2006, The Nautical and Aviation Publishing Company of America, Charleston, South Carolina.

Among the organizers and leaders of UE Local 107 at the Westinghouse South Philadelphia works were several former members of the Industrial Workers of the World ( IWW ).< ref > Matles, James J. and Higgins, James, < i > Them and Us: Struggles of a Rank-and-File Union </ i >, Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1974, hardcover, ISBN 0-13-913079-9 ; paperback reprint ISBN 0-13-913053-5, chapter 12 </ ref > While foes of UE in the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s charged the union with " communist domination ," recent studies Stepan-Norris, Judith, and Zeitlin, Maurice, < i > Left Out: Reds and America's Industrial Unions </ i >, Cambridge University Press, 2003, hardcover ISBN 0-521-70212-6 ; paperback ISBN 0-521-79840-X </ ref > have demonstrated that UE was and remains one of the most democratic U. S. labor unions and that its policies differed markedly from those of the US Communist Party on a number of major issues during those decades.

While these problems have been rectified, Mind Candy has no plans to replace or reprint these cards in the future.

While the softcover collection reprint the comic as it was when released in issues, the Absolute Edition includes an extra 13 pages of new stories.

While there were still a number of loud / fast songs, much of the music featured an eclectic mix of instruments including trumpets and synthesizers.

While not very prominent in modern English, cases featured much more saliently in Old English and other ancient Indo-European languages, such as Latin, Ancient Greek, and Sanskrit.

While most artists were from the country genre, a wide range of artists were featured.

While the personnel of the recordings varied, the lineup often featured Sonny Rollins and Art Blakey.

While New Order toured North America with friends Echo & the Bunnymen, the summer of 1987 saw the release of the compilation Substance, which featured the new single " True Faith ".

While appearing only as featured solo instruments in some works, for example Maurice Ravel's orchestration of Modest Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition and Sergei Rachmaninoff's Symphonic Dances, the saxophone is included in other works, such as Ravel's Boléro, Prokofiev's Romeo and Juliet Suites 1 and 2, Vaughan Williams Symphony No. 6 and Symphony No. 9 and William Walton's Belshazzar's Feast, and many other works as a member of the orchestral ensemble.

While Lee's synthesizers had been featured instruments ever since the late 70s, keyboards were suddenly shifted from the contrapuntal background to the melodic front-lines in songs like " Countdown " and the lead-off track " Subdivisions ".

Worf was the only character to be a regular in more than one live-action Star Trek series ( While Miles O ' Brien was featured in both The Next Generation and Deep Space Nine, he was not a regular cast member in the former series ).

While founded as a business school, the subject of economics featured prominently in the research and curriculum of the school from the beginning.

While the 1972 team faced no competition that possessed a better record than 8-6 in the regular season, the 1973 team played a much tougher schedule that included games against the Oakland Raiders, Pittsburgh Steelers, and Dallas Cowboys ( all playoff teams ), plus two games against a resurgent Buffalo Bills squad that featured 2, 000-yard rusher O. J.

While the CBS prime-time lineup featured music, comedy and variety shows, the daytime schedule was a direct conduit into American homes — and into the hearts and minds of American women ; for many, it was the bulk of their adult human contact during the course of the day.

While his music had been featured on screen for years and sometimes the whole orchestra in film shorts, Ellington ( with Strayhorn ) now began to work directly on music for movies, contributing scores for Anatomy of a Murder ( 1959 ) and Paris Blues ( 1961 ).

While cross country competitions are no longer held at the Olympics, having featured in the athletics programme from 1912 – 1924, it has been present as one of the events within the modern pentathlon competition since the 1912 Summer Olympics.

While found in some land casinos, its popularity has declined, although it is featured at many casinos online.

While Verne Lundquist replaced Summerall on games with lead analyst John Madden, Buck ( who was at the time the network's lead Major League Baseball announcer ) filled in for Lundquist, teaming with Dan Fouts to call two games ( both of which coincidentally featured the Cardinals, who had moved from St. Louis to Arizona by that time ).

While under contract with Paramount, Chevalier's name was so recognized that his passport featured in the Marx Brothers film Monkey Business ( 1931 ).

While it did feature some vital Welles scenes that Universal cut from the release version, the preview version also featured more of Keller's material than the release version.

While staying well within the thrash genre, the album was a departure from its predecessor's more traditional thrash metal style and featured many modern elements such as Hardcore, while the vocals showed influences from a broad spectrum of music.

While Skylab already featured a second docking port, it were these two Salyut stations that would become the first that actually utilized two docking ports: This made it possible for two Soyuz spacecraft to dock at the same time for crew exchange of the station and for Progress spacecraft to resupply the station, allowing for the first time a continuos (" permanent ") occupation of space stations.

While the original series was restricted to players from the NHL, the 1974 Summit Series featured a Canadian team made up of WHA players.

While she was not truly featured as a character in the novel, Henry II was as he was featured as the nun's father.

While these films still strongly featured martial arts, it was mixed with a liberal dose of humour.

While the martial arts films of the 1970s generally featured highly-stylised fighting sequences in period or fantasy settings, Hung's choreography, set in modern urban areas, was more realistic and frenetic-featuring long one-on-one fight scenes.

While the trombone was featured prominently in dixieland and swing music, it fell out of favor among bebop and later jazz fusion musicians, largely because instruments with valves and keys ( trumpet, saxophone ) were believed to be more suited to bebop's often rapid tempos and demand for technical mastery.