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 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 2000, companies generally regarded green buildings as interesting experiments but unfeasible projects in the real business world.

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.

Living first in Philadelphia, then seeking refuge close in Virginia, he wrote a book entitled The Prospect Before Us ( read and approved by Vice President Jefferson before publication ) in which he called the Adams administration a " continual tempest of malignant passions " and the President a " repulsive pedant, a gross hypocrite and an unprincipled oppressor ".

Before the speech, US delegations met with Canadian Prime Minister John Diefenbaker, British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan, West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer, and French President Charles de Gaulle to brief them on the US intelligence and their proposed response.

Before the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act was passed in the wake of the September 11 attacks, the FBI director would directly brief the President of the United States on any issues that arise from within the FBI.

Before his presidency, he was the eighth Vice President ( 1833 – 1837 ) and the tenth Secretary of State, under Andrew Jackson ( 1829 – 1831 ).

Before being elected President, Jefferson had opposed funds for a Navy to be used for anything more than a coastal defense, however the continued pirate attacks on American shipping interests in the Atlantic and Mediterranean and the systematic kidnapping of American crew members could no longer be ignored.

Before becoming President, he held offices at the city, state, and federal levels.

Before Harding's election, the nation had been adrift ; President Woodrow Wilson had been ill by a debilitating stroke for eighteen months and before that Wilson had been in Europe for several months attempting to negotiate a peace settlement after World War I.

Before becoming President, Taft was selected to serve on the Ohio Superior Court in 1887.

Before 1982, the excutive of a department was the prefect ( préfet ) who represents the Government of France in each department and is appointed by the President of France.

Before signing a bill into law, the President can also ask the Constitutional Tribunal to verify its compliance with the Constitution, which in practice bears a decisive influence on the legislative process.

Before the Old Man tracks Sam down and captures him, they have infected the Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, whose department controls the United States Secret Service ( responsible for the President's personal security ); the slugs are a step away from infecting the President himself.

Before the fall of the Berlin Wall, British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher told Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev that neither the United Kingdom nor Western Europe wanted the reunification of Germany.

Before his term as President, he worked as an aerospace engineer with Defence Research and Development Organisation ( DRDO ) and Indian Space Research Organisation ( ISRO ).

Before the signing ceremony of the Sarbanes – Oxley Act, President George W. Bush met with Senator Paul Sarbanes, U. S. Secretary of Labor | Secretary of Labor Elaine Chao and other dignitaries in the Blue Room ( White House ) | Blue Room at the White House on July 30, 2002

Before the film's release, Warner showed a preview cut to U. S. President Richard Nixon, who recommended substantial changes, including the removal of two songs that struck him as veiled criticisms of the ongoing Vietnam War.

Before it was cancelled by President Barack Obama in early 2010, the Constellation Program had been a major activity in NASA since 2004.

Before Abraham Lincoln, no President had a beard ; after Lincoln until William Howard Taft, every President except Andrew Johnson and William McKinley had either a beard or a moustache.

Before the outbreak of hostilities, on 10 November 1845, President James K. Polk, had sent his envoy, John Slidell, to Mexico to offer the country around $ 5 million for the territory of Nuevo México, and up to $ 40 million for Alta California ( the present State of California ).

Before hostilities erupted, Bonifacio reorganized the Katipunan into an open de facto revolutionary government, with him as President and commander-in-chief ( or generalissimo ) of the rebel army and the Supreme Council as his cabinet.

11: 30: Before sleeping, President Bush enters into his journal: " The Pearl Harbor of the 21st century took place today ... We think it's Osama bin Laden.

Before they take it away, however, I think the President the BBFC should read it.

Before becoming senator, Dessaulles was President of the Bank of Saint-Hyacinthe, and mayor of Saint-Hyacinthe.