* 2002-The Detroit Lions football team begin play in the new, state-of-the-art Ford Field, returning to downtown Detroit after 27 years in suburban Pontiac.

* 2001 – 2002-The TPA sues the City for $ 1 billion over lands transferred in 1990s ; settles for $ 55 million settlement and agreement to permit building of bridge to Island ; end of permanent subsidy for lands.

* 2002-The $ 11 million Larry K. Durham Sports Center opened and the Sam Donaldson Center for Communication Studies was established.

* 2002-The Institute of Management was awarded a Royal Charter and became the Chartered Management Institute.

* 2002-The Institute's management qualifications were recognised as part of the UK's National Qualifications Framework for Higher Education.

* 2002-The Institute of Interim Management by mutual agreement with the CMI, gained an independent status.

* 2002-The Action démocratique du Québec wins four by-elections and temporarily enjoys high scores in public opinion polls.

* 2002-The Department of Homeland Security is created in the wake of the September 11 attacks.

* 2002-The United States withdraws from Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty.

* 2002-The Free Speech Movement: Reflections on Berkeley in the 1960s-Edited by Robert Cohen and Reginald E. Zelnik ( University of California Press ) ISBN 978-0-520-23354-6

* July 1, 2002-The Toyo-Seibu Merger Committee was held at Ceratopia Toki in the city of Toki.

* 2002-The Owl, the Raven & the Dove: The Religious Meaning of the Grimms ' Magic Fairy Tales by G. Ronald Murphy

* April 1, 2002-The town of Tomisato gained city status.

* February 2, 2002-The town of Moriya gained city status.

* April 1, 2002-The town of Ashiro moved from Ninohe District to Iwate District.

* April 1, 2002-The town of Ashiro transferred to Iwate District.

2002-The ETA Trust, a charity become limit by guarantee.

2002-The North Dakota State Board of Higher Education officially recognizes NDSCS as a Centennial College.

* 2002-The Presidential Medal of Freedom from President George W. Bush for a lifetime of work in the service of his country and humanity.

* 2002-The University of Houston celebrates its 75th anniversary with an enrollment of 34, 443 that fall semester.

* 2002-The hit British premiere production of This is Our Youth plays two seasons either side of a successful run of The Lieutenant of Inishmore.

* 2002-The US Civil Air Patrol appoints Gippsland Aeronautics to supply Airvans, making the CAP the first American organisation to own and fly the Airvan-and the largest fleet owner of the Australian GA8 worldwide.

The slow merger of Baltica and Laurentia, and the northward movement of bits and pieces of Gondwana created numerous new regions of relatively warm, shallow sea floor.

It is one of numerous small cities in Jefferson County which have resisted annexation or merger.

Between 1863 and the early 1900s, there were numerous territorial changes, including the merger and splitting of states.

" The merger was allowed, but despite Rozelle's promises, numerous NFL teams have since moved, or used the threat of moving to have cities build or improve stadiums.

This railroad company was the result of the merger of numerous smaller lines in Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois.

During the cadastral reform of April 1, 1889, Fujisawaosaka town ( Koza District ) and Fujisawaotomi town ( Kamakura District ) were created through the merger of numerous local hamlets.

The merger proposals provoked serious debates at numerous shareholder meetings throughout Waterford and Avonmore.

The amateurs consisted of the various youth departments which had been the trademark of the club since the 1964 merger, as well as the numerous volunteers who service every match of the professional club for free.

Senior planners reviewed numerous options before agreeing on the final conclusion – a merger of most strategic and tactical air resources and the transfer of the tactical airlift squadrons out of the Military Airlift Command due to their combat orientation.

Because the technology was so complex, MPSS was only performed ' in-house ' by Lynx Therapeutics and no machines were sold ; when the merger with Solexa later led to the development of sequencing-by-synthesis, a more simple approach with numerous advantages, MPSS became obsolete.

Winkenwerder also lead the implementation of a new worldwide electronic health record system ( AHLTA ), guided the merger of Walter Reed Army and Bethesda Naval Medical Centers, and responded to numerous humanitarian crises.

For a contemporary equivalent, one has to imagine a merger between Merrill Lynch, Morgan Stanley, J P Morgan and probably Goldman Sachs too — as well, perhaps, as the International Monetary Fund, given the nineteen-century Rothschild's role in stabilising the finances of numerous governments.

The pay-per-view unit remained under the ownership of Warner Cable ( which became Time Warner Cable after the merger of their parent company Warner Communications and publisher Time, Inc .) and has undergone numerous transformations before its current incarnations as iN DEMAND and the differing video on demand On-Demand service.

The complex merger operations that led to ownership of Orange by France Telecom and its subsequent branding is a subject for numerous management case studies on topics like strategic management, brand management, PEST analysis, financing methods of merger and acquisitions and leveraged buyouts.

SynOptics headquarters at the time of the merger with Wellfleet was in the pair of strikingly-designed sloped buildings at the Northeast corner of the intersection of California's Great America Parkway and Mission College Blvd in Santa Clara, an area known for featuring numerous networking start-ups such as Ungermann-Bass.

From 1863 to the early 1900s there were numerous territorial changes, including the merger and splitting of states, but from then until the 1990s the states were left unchanged.

However, numerous delays and the 1999 Kroger-Fred Meyer merger forced Smith's to halt construction on its sixth planned location indefinitely.

Gretzky aside, many players made their debut in the NHL this season, both due to the WHA merger and to a change in the rules for the Entry Draft allowing eighteen and nineteen year olds to be drafted for the first time ; no fewer than six Hall of Famers ( Gretzky, Ray Bourque, Mark Messier, Mike Gartner, Michel Goulet and Joe Mullen ; Mullen was undrafted ) debuted this season along with numerous other perennial stars.

During this time, Fuld witnessed and participated in the numerous changes which the organization endured, including its merger with Kuhn, Loeb & Co, its acquisition by American Express, its merger with E. F. Hutton, and its ultimate spin-off from American Express in 1994, once again as Lehman Brothers.