Colangelo fired Showalter after a relatively disappointing 2000 season, and replaced him with Bob Brenly, the former Giants catcher and coach, who had up to that point been working as a color analyst on Diamondbacks television broadcasts.

The four reportedly pledged themselves to Jihad in the Spring of 2000, in a ceremony presided over by Wail – who had dubbed himself Abu Mossaeb al-Janubi after one of Muhammad's companions.

A Saudi, Haznawi had trained in Afghanistan after leaving his family to fight in Chechnya in 2000.

His father and brother, Abdul Rahman al-Haznawi, reportedly last heard from him in late 2000, after he made references to training in Afghanistan.

In 2000, after the U. S. version of the CBS program " Big Brother " premiered, the Estate of George Orwell sued CBS and its production company " Orwell Productions, Inc ." in federal court in Chicago for copyright and trademark infringement.

In October 2000, Slobodan Milošević was forced out of office after a disputed election.

As early as the Church Committee Report ( 1975 ), publicly available documents have indicated that the CIA attempted to prevent Allende from taking office after he was elected in 1970 ; the CIA itself released documents in 2000 acknowledging this and that Pinochet was one of their favored alternatives to take power.

Following a constitutional referendum of July 2000, the president of the CNSP decided to run for president, and indeed declared himself president after the elections of 22 October 2000.

Finally, however, after popular unrest Laurent Gbagbo became president and was sworn in on 26 October 2000.

A Danish study in 2000 found that even after adjustment for other risk factors, including leisure time physical activity, those who did not cycle to work experienced a 39 % higher mortality rate than those who did.

The CRTC finally granted a license to Milestone in 2000, after a cabinet order-in-council directed the commission to license two new radio stations that reflected the cultural diversity of the Toronto market, and CFXJ-FM launched in 2001.

In 2000, the Indians had a 44 – 42 start, but caught fire after the All Star break and went 46 – 30 the rest of the way to finish 90 – 72.

Their son Jake died just a day after his birth in June 2000 from a Group B streptococcal infection.

Examples include Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels ( 1998 ) ( wherein the slang is translated via subtitles in one scene ); The Limey ( 1999 ); Sexy Beast ( 2000 ); Snatch ( 2000 ); Ocean's Eleven ( 2001 ); and Austin Powers in Goldmember ( 2002 ); It's All Gone Pete Tong ( 2004 ), after BBC radio disc jockey Pete Tong whose name is used in this context as rhyming slang for " wrong "; Green Street Hooligans ( 2005 ).

It was ratified by the ELCA in 1999, the ECUSA in 2000, after the narrow failure of a previous agreement.

Immediately after Pfieffer's ouster, Capellas was elevated to interim chief operating officer by Rosen, and after several months Capellas was made President and CEO, also assuming the title of Chairman on September 28, 2000 when Rosen retired from the board of directors.

* Las Vegas, the 3rd race of the 2001 season, was noted for the fact that Mike Skinner, Earnhardt's teammate at Richard Childress Racing, took over Earnhardt's slot in the No Bull 5 million dollar eligibility for this race since Earnhardt had qualified for the No Bull 5 prize after his final victory in the 2000 Winston 500 at Talladega.

In 2000, after 3 years of insufficient rain, 50, 000 drought victims entered Djibouti.

Douglas died suddenly after only eight months in office, on October 1, 2000, and was replaced by Pierre Charles, also of the DLP.

* 2000 – U. S. retail giant Montgomery Ward announces it is going out of business after 128 years.

D. David Bourland, Jr. ( 1928 – 2000 ) proposed E-Prime as an addition to Alfred Korzybski's general semantics some years after Korzybski's death in 1950.

The Constitution was rewritten on March 1, 2000 after first being adopted on July 17, 1919.

In 2000, Essendon won 20 consecutive matches before losing to the Western Bulldogs in round 21 and went on to win their 16th premiership, defeating and completing one of the most dominant single seasons in AFL / VFL history.

After a winning season in 1992, the Twins fell into a years-long stretch of mediocrity, posting a losing record each year for the next eight years: 71 – 91 in 1993, 50 – 63 in 1994, 56 – 88 in 1995, 78 – 84 in 1996, 68 – 94 in 1997, 70 – 92 in 1998, 63 – 97 in 1999 and 69 – 93 in 2000.

In the previous decade the Mets made one playoff appearance after the 2000 season ; it was in 2006 when they came within one game of the World Series, losing to the eventual World Champion St. Louis Cardinals in Game 7 of the 2006 National League Championship Series.

Gysi's resignation in 2000 after losing a policy debate with party leftists soon spelled trouble for the PDS.

This led his party to losing the 2000 election and the Governorship when he ran again in 2004.

While he has two championship rings with the 1999 – 2000 Yankees, Clemens has also been on the losing end of four World Series ( 1986 Red Sox, 2001 and 2003 Yankees, and 2005 Astros ), which is tied with Tom Glavine and John Smoltz ( who were both on the Braves when they lost the ' 91, ' 92, ' 96 and ' 99 World Series ) for the most among active players.

The 20th century saw a gradual movement to fiat currency, with most of the world monetary system losing its link to precious metals after Richard Nixon took the United States dollar off the gold standard in 1971 ; the last currency backed by gold was the Swiss franc, which became a pure fiat currency on 1 May 2000.

A merger between Square and its competitor Enix was in consideration since at least 2000 ; however, the financial failure of the movie Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within made Enix hesitant to join with a company which was losing money, and the merge was delayed until April 1, 2003, when the two companies finally merged to form Square Enix.

Presently, the city is losing population again ( though that of the metro area continues to grow ), having lost an estimated 2 percent of its population since the year 2000.

The catalogue of useless thrusts continued, the Chinese losing 1, 000 in October 1270, 2000 in August 1271, and most of a 3, 000 strong force was destroyed the following month.

After losing for a third consecutive time against Rafter, Sampras won their final four meetings, including a four-set victory in the 2000 Wimbledon final, after being down a set and trailing in the second-set tiebreaker.

He was replaced by Neil Fiala, who led the team to a West Division title in 2000 before losing in the first round of the playoffs to the Evansville Otters.

The Mavericks have won 50 or more regular season games in 11 consecutive seasons, dating back to 2001 — a stark contrast ( and almost diametrically opposed ) to the 10-season streak of losing seasons from the 1990 – 91 to the 1999 – 2000 season.

The Spurs finished with 58 – 24 records for both the 2000 – 01 and 2001 – 02 seasons but found themselves suffering playoff ousters in both seasons from the eventual NBA Champion Los Angeles Lakers, getting swept from the 2001 Conference Finals and losing in five games during the 2002 second round.

Ruiz fought former champion Holyfield to fill the vacancy on August 12, 2000, losing by unanimous decision ( this result made Holyfield the first to win a world heavyweight title on four separate occasions ).

Calais RUFC have a good reputation in French cup competitions and went as far as the final in the 1999 / 2000 season, losing out finally to Nantes.

After losing the KMT presidential nomination to then-vice president Lien Chan, Soong ran as an independent in the 2000 Presidential elections.

Chester began losing its mainstay shipyard and automobile manufacturing jobs as early as the 1960s, causing the population to be halved in fifty years from 65, 000 in 1950 to under 37, 000 in 2000.

Castro has lost two more world championship fights: on December 2000, he went to Germany and lost by a knockout in 10 to WBC cruiserweight champion Juan Carlos Gomez, and on February 2002, he went to Phoenix and challenged IBF cruiserweight champion Vasiliy Jirov, a Kazakhstan native who lives in Phoenix, losing by a decision in twelve.

The club finished third in 2000 – 01 qualifying for the play-offs, losing 2 – 3 in the final against Walsall at Cardiff's Millennium Stadium.

The move came as during the 1999 – 2000 season, The WB dropped to sixth place in the ratings behind UPN, losing 19 % of its household audience ; network executives attributed the ratings decline in large part due to WGN-TV's decision to remove WB network programming from its national superstation feed after deciding the network's national distribution was large enough that broadcasting its programming outside of Chicago was no longer necessary, reducing The WB's potential household audience by 10 million homes ; this expansion was due to a series of affiliation deals for the network with station groups such as Sinclair Broadcast Group in the years following The WB's launch, as well as the network launching The WB 100 + Station Group, a national cable-only service that debuted in September 1998 serving areas with a Nielsen market ranking of # 99 and above that did not have enough broadcast stations to support an over-the-air affiliate ( WGN-TV continued to carry WB programming over-the-air in the Chicago market and on cable providers in northeastern Illinois and far northwestern Indiana until the network shut down in 2006 ).

He was the official Conservative candidate for Mayor of London in 2000 and 2004, losing in both races to Ken Livingstone.

In 2000, he returned after a year on inactivity, defeating Antonio Oscar Salas and Russell Mosley before losing to Juan Lazcano in a contest for the vacant NABF lightweight championship.

* Village ' devastated ' at losing bank-news from the BBC in April 2000