Before 2000, arguments that the Deccan Traps flood basalts caused the extinction were usually linked to the view that the extinction was gradual, as the flood basalt events were thought to have started around 68 Ma and lasted for over 2 million years.

Before the constitutional rewrite, which was completed in 2000, the president enjoyed more power.

Before 2000, the President had the right to enact regulations on matters not governed by parliamentary law, but this power was removed, and existing regulations were converted into regular statutes by the Parliament.

Before the 2000 season, to coincide with the anticipated opening of new Miller Park, the Brewers changed their uniforms again.

Before the formal charter signing in 2000, URI supporters around the world participated together in a project called " 72 Hours for Peace ", in which more than 250 local organizations united in projects promoting peace and justice during the turn of the millennium.

Valhalla is referenced in the video game titles Valhalla ( 1983 ), Valhalla: Before the War ( 1995 ), Valkyrie Profile ( 2000 ), Max Payne ( 2001 ), Valhalla Knights ( 2006 ), Final Fantasy XI ( 2002 ), Halo 3 ( 2007 ), The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim ( 2011 ), and Final Fantasy XIII-2 ( 2011 ).

Before the game begins, we are told that Julie has previously killed a tyrant and " would-be God " named Lord Tyler ( during the events of Heavy Metal 2000 ), and brought the remnant of her people to a planet called Eden.

Before the start of the new 1999 – 2000 season, Ajax were beaten in their own stadium when Feyenoord won their second Dutch Super Cup title, after a free kick by Patrick Paauwe, which secured a 3 – 2 win.

Oz Before the Rainbow: L. Frank Baum's " The Wonderful Wizard of Oz " on Stage and Screen to 1939 ( 2000 ).

Before Windows 2000, Windows was vulnerable to this because the COM class table was shared across all users and processes.

Before the revision of 1983 these were combined in a separate Chapter 10 ; the articles as such remained largely unchanged in 1983, but were finally fully revised in 2000.

Before the 1999 – 2000 season, West was prepared to hire Rambis as the team's full-time coach before an outcry from fans and members of the organization caused him to seek out a bigger name.

Before the implementation of the home-rule charter on January 1, 2000, there were three county commissioners.

Before annexation in 2002, it was a census-designated place ( CDP ); the population was 5, 203 at the 2000 census.

Before incorporation on June 6, 2000, it was a census-designated place ( CDP ).

Before 2000, there was a lack of room for the possibility of the seventh and eighth grades being located in Burlington, as the room needed for those grades was not completed until that year in the form of a new Junior High wing.

Before joining the Libertarian Party in 2000, Irv Rubin was an active Republican, and served as a page at the 1964 Republican National Convention, at which Barry Goldwater was nominated to run for the presidency.

Before leaving England, however, Senna was offered a drive with a Formula Ford 2000 team for £ 10, 000.

The lead single from the album " Before You " became a huge radio hit in Canada and she performed the single on the 2000 Juno Awards, where she won two awards for Best Adult / Pop Album and Best Female Artist.

Before the Stone Hill development and the nearby Pfluger Crossing development ( a development that includes a Wal-Mart Supercenter ) opened their first stores in 2007, the city's two largest retailers were an Albertsons grocery store ( which operated from 1996 to 2006 ) near Pflugerville High School and an H-E-B grocery store ( operating since 2000 ) east of downtown.

Other films have included the science fiction feature Gattaca ( 1997 ), the title role in Michael Almereyda's Hamlet ( 2000 ), the action thriller Assault on Precinct 13 ( 2005 ), and the crime drama Before the Devil Knows You're Dead ( 2007 ).

Before the end of his first season on Ally McBeal, over the Thanksgiving 2000 holiday, Downey was arrested when his room at Merv Griffin's Hotel and Givenchy Spa in Palm Springs, California was searched by the police, who were responding to an anonymous 911 call.

Before restructuring ( beginning circa 2000 ), Hyundai's major areas of activity included shipbuilding, car manufacture, construction, retailing, finance, and electronics.

Before arriving at Al-Farouq, the four reportedly pledged themselves to jihad in Spring 2000, in a ceremony presided over by Wail, who had dubbed himself Abu Mossaeb al-Janubi after one of Muhammad's companions.

Before long, the CEOs and CFOs of many smaller and mid-sized companies previously limited to the slow and expensive private-placement market were making early-morning pilgrimages to Beverly Hills seeking to issue high-yield and / or convertible bonds through Drexel Burnham.

There is a minimum share capital for public limited companies: Before it can start business, it must have allotted shares to the value of at least £ 50, 000.

Before the Telecommunications Act of 1993, the parastatal, could dictate its own terms, but after 1993, Telia was told to negotiate with companies seeking interconnection.

Before the September 11, 2001 attacks ,( 9 / 11 ) airport screening was provided by private companies which were contracted with the airline or airport.

Before the end of 1885, it was estimated that, in Europe and America, at least 150 companies were producing the opera.

Before the law requiring a mandatory crash test in 1970 there was a booming kit car industry in Sweden with most companies basing their kits on the VW Beetle chassis.

Before legal actions initiated by New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer, which later became known as the Global Settlement enforcement agreement, some large investment firms had initiated favorable research coverage of companies in an effort to aid Corporate Finance departments and retail divisions engaged in the marketing of new issues.

Before the rise of large ship companies on Lake Michigan, service was done primarily by owner-operated boats.

Before this time, railroad line s had been proposed, but due to a series of reorganizations and competition between companies for right-of-ways as of 1892, no track had been laid.

Before the 1980s, practically all typesetting for publishers and advertisers was performed by specialist typesetting companies.

Before production began, Watson visited with 20 companies that were potential customers.

Before the 1996 Act was passed, the largest four ILECs owned less than half of all the lines in the country while five years later the largest four local telephone companies own about 85 % of all the lines in the country.

" Before he died, fellow conspirator Ambrose Rookwood said that he " loved and respected him as his own life ", while Catesby's friend, Father John Gerard, claimed he was " respected in all companies of such as are counted there swordsmen or men of action ", and that " few were in the opinions of most men preferred before him and he increased much his acquaintance and friends.

Before leaving, the oil companies had made sure they did not leave behind anything of value to the Mexican government, hoping to force Cárdenas to accept their conditions.

Before its dissolution parliament passed an act imposing a profit tax of 10 % on diamond-and copper-mining companies earning over £ 50, 000 per annum, and another act establishing an agricultural credit bank.

Before 1939, most health care had to be paid for through non government organisations – through a vast network of friendly societies, trade unions and other insurance companies which counted the vast majority of the UK working population as members.

Before pharmaceutical companies start clinical trials on a drug, they conduct extensive preclinical studies.

Before Konami Corporation had formally changed to a holding company in 2006, various forms of Konami Digital Entertainment companies had been established either as holding company or publisher.

Before Betancourt's changes in the taxing system, the state of Venezuela was making only a fraction of what foreign oil companies were making in profit.

Before discovering microcomputers, he spent a dozen years working on mainframes and minicomputers for companies including Boeing and Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

Before it split into two separately listed companies in early 2010, Cable & Wireless suffered one of the biggest shareholder rebellions in 2009 when 38pc of the shareholder register failed to back the company's pay policy at a fiery meeting.

Before December 1866, there was no city fire department, and fires in the city, which broke out regularly in the wooden buildings, were extinguished by several volunteer fire companies.

Before entering Parliament, Oaten had been a councillor and was employed as a lobbyist by various Westminster public affairs companies.

But Beckwith recognized that, " Before a Special Forces Green Beret soldier could become a good unconventional solder, he'd first have to be a good conventional one ... Because I had commanded rifle and weapons companies, I was appalled on arriving in Special Forces to find officers who had never commanded conventional units.