THAT WAS THE YEAR THAT WAS. . . TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE OF 2008'S BIGGEST...

Evening Times;  December 31, 2008 ;     700+ words ...COMEDY 1 Which Irish comedian scooped this year's if. comedy award at the Edinburgh Fringe...and even staged their own festival this year? MUSIC 1 Which Glasgow-born singer released her debut solo album, Melody, earlier this year? 2 Which US group fronted by Zach De La...

'Tis The Season . . . To Reflect On Another Year Gone By.(From the Editor)

Surface Fabrication;  December 1, 2008 ;     686 words ...'Tis The Season . . . To Reflect On Another Year Gone By Kevin Cole, Editor, editor@surfacefabrication...course, this issue marks the close of another year for Surface Fabrication . . . and what a year it was. The economy began to slow a bit in the...

YEAR-END REPORT.(Business News)

Manila Bulletin;  December 31, 2008 ;     700+ words ......first to admit the need to recast next year's exports and investments growth targets...conferred with him on growth prospects for next year. I said I would rather take a conservative...outlook on both exports and imports for this year and next year was slashed by 2 percentage...

Let Jesus reign in our hearts throughout the year.(Opinion and Editorial)

Manila Bulletin;  January 5, 2009 ;     235 words ...AS we welcome this year, let us bring with us to our workplaces...should be kept aflame every day of the year, for such is the true essence of Christmas...who have less in life - every day of the year. Christ, who is the main figure in our...

JACKSON OUT TO SHOW HE CAN LIVE UP TO POTENTIAL ROOKIE YEAR 'HUMBLING' FOR...

Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA);  January 1, 2009 ;     700+ words ......end Lawrence Jackson called his rookie year a humbling experience, but the team's 2008...their disappointing 4-12 season. The 23-year-old from Inglewood, Calif., knows he has...and I know how I progressed through the year. I'm completely confident in the progress...

COMMANDER'S CORNER: HAPPY NEW YEAR

US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  January 5, 2009 ;     495 words ......issued the following news release: Happy New Year! It is an honor to report to you that this year will be better than the last. That's an ambitious...me tell you about how good things were last year. In 2008, we grew as a community. With the goal...

Asian lore says 2009 is our year

Winnipeg Free Press;  January 2, 2009 ;     556 words ......predictions that this province will weather the recession. This is going to be Manitoba's year, according to the Chinese lunar calendar. The year 2009 is the Year of the Ox or Year of the Buffalo, depending on where in Asia you hail from. "The buffalo...

Belts Will Be Worn Tighter This Year; The Challenge: Cutting $3 Billion...

The Washington Post;  January 8, 2009 ;     700+ words ......focus on cutting $3 billion from Virginia's two-year budget, as the state faces one of its worst financial...day fund, before voting on changes to the two-year, $77 billion spending plan. "Every year, the governor proposes a budget, and every year...

ALL IN A YEAR'S WORK ; Feminism, fashion, fitness, films, philanthropy and...

The Patriot Ledger Quincy, MA;  December 30, 2008 ;     700+ words ...YEAR IN REVIEW 2008 Women certainly took front and center in politics this year as Hillary Clinton came the closest ever to being the first...earned $150 million and was one of the top grossing films in a year that included testosterone-charged entries from Indiana Jones...

Seeing in the new year with very little left to cheer

The Sunday Telegraph London;  January 4, 2009 ;     534 words ......fed up by now with being asked the dullest of all questions posed at this time of the year. It goes: "So, what are your resolutions for the New Year?" New Year resolutions tend to be a waste of time. There are the cliches such as joining the gym...

A terrible, horrible, awful, very bad year.(NEWS)(automobile demand goes...

Automotive News;  December 29, 2008 ;     258 words ...Byline: Jesse Snyder This has been a year to make automotive forecasters weep. A year ago, prognosticators debated whether 2008 light...Edmunds.com called it at 14.9 million. Late last year, J.D. Power predicted that sales would top 15 million...

A YEAR OF ECONOMIC UPHEAVAL ; The recession takes a toll on jobs, industry...

Portland Press Herald (Maine);  January 4, 2009 ;     700+ words ...A YEAR OF ECONOMIC UPHEAVAL ; The recession takes...and business news in Maine in 2008. It was a year when economic woes dominated headlines but...percent - the highest point in 14 years. A year before, the state unemployment rate was 4...

LOCAL IRAQ WAR DEATHS FELL TO THEIR LOWEST NUMBER LAST YEAR.(News)

Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA);  January 2, 2009 ;     487 words ...Byline: MIKE BARBER P-I reporter In a year that saw overall U.S. military fatalities in Iraq fall to their lowest since the first year of the war, local casualties were reflected...military bases or hometowns died in Iraq last year. Another eight were killed in Afghanistan...

Worst year for shares since 1793.

The Daily Mail (London, England);  January 1, 2009 ;     312 words ......Bruce IRISH shares have had their worst year since records began over 200 years ago...60 per cent of their value in the past year shedding a massive ?61billion. The ISEQ...by a shuddering 66 per cent during the year, making it one of the worst performing...

Wall Street sees 2009 as a bull year.(Business News)

Manila Bulletin;  January 4, 2009 ;     700+ words ......prod stocks higher in 2009, following a year most investors would gladly forget. Investors...gains of as much as 10 to 20 percent next year, partly reversing a dismal 39 percent drop...will do whatever it takes to tackle the year-long recession, prompting hopes of a so-call...