December 8

On December 8th a draft agreement which had been discussed some weeks ago was leaked to the Guardian.

A youth of 16 was admitted to a city hospital on 8 December 1960 with a week's history of frontal headache, backache and pains in the limbs.

August's figures continue a trend that began in April of shoppers holding back; it's expected to continue at least through December.

This is one of the main results of a study by a team of American and British researchers published on December 8th.

Yet by December the US savings rate as a percentage of disposable income stood at 4. 8 per cent, more or less unchanged from a year before.

Chinese exports fell 2. 8 per cent in December, at least one percentage point less than expected, Dow Jones reported on Saturday.

The bank bought controlling stakes in PT Bank Halim Indonesia last December and in Macao's Seng Heng bank in August.

It had 663m registered users last December and made $860m in revenue in 2010, implying revenue per user of a mere $1. 30.

December data was friskier, with consumer prices up 2. 8 per cent on a year-on-year basis, but much of this is due to grain.

The resulting disaster has bankrupted the industry, which had piled up $1. 8 billion in bank debts by last December.

Based on its revenues last December, the company was already seeing annualised revenues of $150m and doubling every eight weeks, he added.

On 8 December 1942, radar in the United States picked up a plane coming from the direction of Japan.

A state board will meet on December 8th to begin the consideration of ballots challenged by the two campaigns.

China is also hosting the Olympic games in August and celebrating 30 years of "reform and opening" in December.

The biggest advance came late on December 8th, when news surfaced of a breakthrough deal on the public option.

The contract months of the new stock futures available for trading on the introduction day will be August, September, December and March.

On December 8th five almost simultaneous explosions killed at least 120 civilians.

Lei Feng was a model soldier, On December 1 8, 1940, he was born in a poor peasant family in a little mountain village of Hunan Province.

On December 8th the company filed for bankruptcy protection.

The winner will be announced October 8, while the awards ceremony will take place in December.

On a cold and rainy December morning, eight workers bustle inside the Evergreen Co-operative Laundry.

In December, nineteen sixty-eight, the United States launched Apollo 8 with three astronauts.

In December next year Taiwan is due to hold elections for its legislature and in March 2008 for the presidency.

CICC estimates consumer prices rose 4. 5 percent in December from a year earlier, while Merrill's forecast is 4. 8 percent.

ASTER is one of five Earth-observing instruments launched December 18, 1999, on NASA's Terra satellite.

A year later, in December 2009, a whopping 37. 8 percent of people were unemployed for twenty-seven weeks or more.

These latest two cases bring the total in Viet Nam since mid-December 2004 to eight.

Besides, the two Prime Ministers also jointly met with representatives from the Czech business community on the evening of December 8.

On December 8th Admiral Mike Mullen, chairman of America's joint chiefs of staff, accused China of failing to use its clout.

Its latest satellite, Fengyun-2D, was launched on December 8th with Olympic forecasting as a priority mission.

On December 8, the Florida Supreme Court ordered a recount in certain counties, raising the chance that Gore would win.

The inauguration ceremony for the new Hengqin Port Joint Inspection Complex Building was ceremoniously held on the morning of December 8th.

The climb began on December 8, but they encountered a rogue blizzard of enormous intensity and duration.

In Panama the day is celebrated on December 8, when the Catholic Church honors another famous mother, the Virgin Mary.

The findings were published online December 8 in the journal Nature ahead of print publication.

The gold companies presented in the three December issues have all done well, with gains of as much as 8-fold in that couple of months.

U. S. Navy ships received new help December 8 when the European Union stationed six ships and three aircraft in the region.

On December 8, 2005, Premier Wen Jiabao of the State Councilor met with Slovak National Assembly Speaker Hrusovsky in Bratislava.

Travis Beard, organizer of "Secret Cinema" , screens a film at a secret cinema in Kabul, on December 8, 2011.

The index averaged 96. 8 during the last economic expansion that ended in December 2007.

In the survey, 53% said they approved of the job Mr. Obama is doing as president, up eight percentage points from December.

DECEMBER 8: The Red Team has set up camp by the empty blast furnaces to watch the robot make its 15-hour nonstop, unguided journey.

Crows fly over the northern Italian ski resort of Selva Di Val Gardena December 8, 2007.

In December, traditionally the busiest month for shopping, same-store sales were 8% lower than in December 2005.

Decorated kangaroo sculptures sit on a ferry passing the Statue of Liberty December 8, 2004.

The bureau's widely watched composite index said that the volume of goods trade worldwide rose at 4. 8 per cent in December.

By December the volume of its shares trading in Hong Kong was more than eight times higher than on Aim.

Another 85, 000 jobs were lost in December, bringing total losses since the recession began in December 2007 to over 7m.

December 28, 2008I am a general dentist and a parent of my first child, an 8 month old boy.

Perhaps the month's best news has to do with Jupiter - the good fortune planet, retrograde since August 30, will go direct on December 25.

The study was posted today (Wednesday, December 8) at the online site of the journal Biology of Reproduction.

Well, the student died on November 25th, and today is December 8th, I think 14 days must be enough for the report.

Oh, sure, they'll get the benefit of rising prices that are projected to hit $16. 80 a bushel by December.

Much higher dividends this year are likely for all three producers but especially BHP, which already held $8. 3bn in cash at December 2009.

That delayed its approval until December 8th, when it was increased fractionally to ¥ 7. 2 trillion ($80 billion).

To recoup the 8. 2 million jobs lost since December 2007, it'll take four years of growth at 170, 000 jobs per month.

Metal fans use black ribbons to remember Dimebag Darrell, who was murdered on stage on December 8, 2004.

The container finally reached Russia on December 8.

Li was arrested in December; on Jan. 8 he was convicted and later sentenced to 18 months in prison.

A judge this week agreed to rule on its reorganisation plan on December 8th.

Alcatel-Lucent forecast in December a decline of 8 to 12 percent in the market in 2009, a far sharper drop than its rivals have forecast.

A boy rides a bicycle to light a Christmas tree in Copenhagen, Denmark, on December 8, 2009.

In keeping with this, the volume of exports from emerging economies grew by 8. 7% in the three months to December.

China, the world's favourite factory floor, reported a mere 2. 8 per cent year-on-year drop in exports in December.

But on the night of December 8, 1992, Tracy got off work and stood in the pizza shop's parking lot talking to friends.

The improvement came after a disappointing rise of 0. 8 per cent in November and compared with a 3. 5 per cent fall in December 2008.

December 8, 2007, in Jishou University awarded the first grants.

Housing starts fell for the seventh month running, sliding 16. 8 per cent from December and 56. 2 per cent over the past year.

Prices are up 8. 3% in December and up nearly 15% for the year.

The official toll since President Calderon took power in December 2006 is 28, 000, according to government figures through July.

However, the export sector was hit hard in late 2008, with December exports down 2. 8 percent.

About 850 million $2 bills were in circulation as of December 31, according to Fed data.

That number has swelled from 2. 8 million in late June, when regular continuing claims peaked, to 4. 7 million in early December.

This is a significant increase of 8% - in previous surveys from April 2009 and December 2008 the figure was just 11%.

However, stocks of copper in LME warehouses have climbed more than 30 percent to above 468, 000 tons since December 9.

In America "core" consumer prices, which exclude food and fuel, rose by a modest 0. 8% in the year to December.

High-yield spreads are down sharply from their all-time high of 21. 8 percentage points in December.

December 8 at 8: 00 a. m. PST: "Cisco Connected World Report - Focus on the Data Center"

The record for December rainfall in LA is 8. 77 inches.

The poll was conducted among 6, 165 adults in France, Germany, Italy, the UK and the US between November 26 and December 8.

The North Node of the Moon entered Aquarius on December 15, 2007 and stays there until August 2009.

BigCarrot was launched in December 2007 and currently plays host to about 8 prizes, ranging from $100-$515.

Even in China, exports are spluttering, down by 2. 8% in December compared with the previous year.

It reached a high of more than 200 per cent in December 2007 and briefly fell as low as 6 per cent in August 2008.

December copper futures rose 8 cents to $3. 88 a pound.

December's annual WPI inflation rate was 8. 4%, up from 7. 5% in November.

Consumer expenditures declined 1. 1 percent in October, 0. 8 percent in November and 1 percent in December.

CBOT December wheat rose 18? cents to $9. 51? a bushel yesterday, gaining 8. 8 per cent this week.

December copper futures were last up 0. 8% to $3. 85 a pound.

This solar eclipse yesterday lasted for 11 minutes and eight seconds, setting a record that will not be beaten until December 23, 3043.

This solar eclipse yesterday lasted for 11 minutes and eight seconds, setting a record that will not be beaten until December 23, 3043.

The August to December period yielded earnings per share of only 0. 4p (15. 89p for 17 months).

Money supply, as measured by M2, rose by 8. 5% from December 1997 to December 1998, according to data from the Federal Reserve.

In December, Internet Explorer 8 (Beta 2, I presume) had greater market share than Chrome 1. 0: 82 percent to 55 percent.

In 2009, according to the December consensus of forecasts, China's economy grew by 8. 5 per cent and India's by 6. 6 per cent.

In XML 2008, 8-13 December 2002, Baltimore, MD, USA, 2002.

That is an eight-point rise on last month, and a 13-point rise on December last year.

He was in Yemen between August and December, ostensibly to study Arabic.

On December 10, 1988, a 6. 8-magnitude earthquake struck, killing 25, 000 people and leaving 500, 000 homeless.

December's 8. 4% WPI inflation was in fact the second-lowest of last year; from March to July inflation was over 10%.

That compares with a 17. 2 percent gain last year and the 2. 8 percent drop in December.

The Chinese trade surplus in December, for example, was $38. 98bn, just short of the record $40. 1bn in November.

His candidacy received a boost when former Vice President Albert Gore on December 8 publicly urged Democrats to rally behind Dean

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Toshiba will launch the toner and erasing machine, which will retail for around 300, 000 yen (about 23, 000 yuan), on December 8 in Japan