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.

Although previous big-name pitchers, including Bill Swift, Bret Saberhagen, and Darryl Kile, had struggled in Colorado, following the 2000 season O ' Dowd made two very splashy signings in the free-agent market, signing Denny Neagle to a five-year contract worth $ 51 million, followed five days later by signing Mike Hampton to an eight-year, $ 121 million contract.

The market order has been invoked during six crop years: 1962 ( 12 %), 1963 ( 5 %), 1970 ( 10 %), 1971 ( 12 %), 2000 ( 15 %), and 2001 ( 35 %).

According to Olivier De Schutter, the UN special rapporteur on food, there was a rush by institutions to enter the food market following George W Bush's Commodities Futures Modernization Act of 2000.

GDP per capita in USD at 2000 market prices in Hungary 1991-2010

In Australia, Holden's market share dropped from 27. 5 percent in 2000 to 15. 2 percent in 2006.

802. 11b products appeared on the market in early 2000, since 802. 11b is a direct extension of the modulation technique defined in the original standard.

( Nokia, formerly traded in markka, was in 2000 the European company with the highest market capitalization.

In April 2000 TeliaSonera entered the market with its own network under the brand of Moldcell and thus became the second carrier in the country.

Meditel, which received a mobile licence in 2000, is the kingdom's first private operator, holding 36. 69 % of the market.

By 2000, the middleware vendor InterSystems had become the dominant player in the MUMPS market with the purchase of several other vendors.

* 2000 – The NASDAQ Composite stock market index peaks at 5132. 52, signaling the beginning of the end of the dot-com boom.

In the year 2000, the American Hotel-Motel Association removed ' motel ' from its name after considerable market research, and is now the American Hotel and Lodging Association.

guarani ( G ) per US $-4, 555. 00 ( 2011 ), 6, 158. 47 ( 2005 ), 5, 974. 6 ( 2004 ), 6, 424. 34 ( 2003 ), 5, 716. 26 ( 2002 ), 4, 105. 92 ( 2001 ), 3, 332. 0 ( January 2000 ), 3, 119. 1 ( 1999 ), 2, 726. 5 ( 1998 ), 2, 177. 9 ( 1997 ), 2, 056. 8 ( 1996 ), 1, 963. 0 ( 1995 ); note-since early 1998, the exchange rate has operated as a managed float ; prior to that, the exchange rate was determined freely in the market

Internet over coaxial cable has been available since around 2000, and IP telephony ( over the CATV infrastructure ) since the deregulation of the market in 2003.

In the case of the POTS, Telia in 2000 still held monopoly in the fixed-line access market.

Also in 2000, he wrote a digital novella, Riding the Bullet, and has said he sees e-books becoming 50 % of the market " probably by 2013 and maybe by 2012.

Since the ousting of former Federal Yugoslav President Slobodan Milošević in October 2000, the Democratic Opposition of Serbia ( DOS ) coalition government has implemented stabilization measures and embarked on an aggressive market reform program.

Since the ousting of former Federal Yugoslav President Slobodan Milošević in October 2000, the Democratic Opposition of Serbia ( DOS ) coalition government has implemented stabilization measures and embarked on an aggressive market reform program.

In early 2000, TiVo partnered with electronics manufacturer Thomson Multimedia ( now Technicolor SA ) and broadcaster British Sky Broadcasting to deliver the TiVo service in the UK market.

Televisions manufactured for the United States market since 1999 and all units as of January 2000 are required to have the V-chip technology.

While each edition of Windows 2000 was targeted at a different market, they shared a core set of features, including many system utilities such as the Microsoft Management Console and standard system administration applications.

* During the decade, Windows 2000 And Windows XP and Microsoft Office 2003 And Windows vista And Microsoft Office 2008 And Then Windows 7 become the ubiquitous industry standards in personal computer software until the end of the decade, when Apple began to slowly gain market share.

Early issues featured two SF-themed stories aimed at a slightly older age group than 2000 AD and soon became a magnet for British creators who wanted to create comics for the adult market.

In 2000, poor market conditions forced SCI to reevaluate operations.

Following an average deficit of around 44 percent of GDP from 1997 to 2000, the current account deficit has increased to over 35 percent of GDP since 2001 due to higher import demand combined with lower receipts from tourism and nutmeg exports.

Gross domestic product grew by about 4. 8 % in 2000 and is expected to post a slightly lower rate of 4. 5 % in 2001, as export demand lags.

Around the year 2000, due to overfishing and high demand, lobster aquaculture expanded.

Bonds were sold against the company to fund the new developments, but after the Internet bubble burst in 2000 and the resultant reduction in customer demand for such products, Curtis Crawford was replaced by James ( Jim ) Thorburn who reorganized the company under Chapter 11 bankruptcy in late 2001 and refocused it back to the 8 and 16 bit microcontroller market.

Between 2000 and 2006, the biggest changes were in Asia — which saw newsprint demand grow by about 20 %— and North America, where demand fell by about 25 %.

Starting around 2000, demand for ever-greater quantities of flash have driven manufacturers to use only the latest fabrication systems in order to increase density as much as possible.

As digital photography reduced the demand for all film after 2000, Kodachrome sales further declined.

In March 2000 Sky News Active was launched, a 24-hour interactive service providing headlines ( and other services which ranged from weather, the top story of the day and showbiz ) on demand.

David Gergen, who had worked in the White House during the Richard Nixon and three subsequent administrations said in his 2000 memoir Eyewitness to Power, of Woodward's reporting, " I don't accept everything he writes as gospel – he can get details wrong – but generally, his accounts in both his books and in the Post are remarkably reliable and demand serious attention.

The Rover 25 and Rover 45 were recently facelifted versions of visibly ageing mid-1990s designs, but production figures had been slightly decreased due to a fall in demand, even though the Rover 25 had been Britain's best-selling car of the month in April 2000.

As Mombassa's artistic output and demand increased it prompted him to make the difficult decision to cease touring with the Mentals in April 2000.

Additionally, several measures were taken to increase the demand for EVs in Portugal: ( 1 ) EVs are fully exempt from both the Vehicle Tax due upon purchase ( Imposto Sobre Veículos ) and the annual Circulation Tax ( Imposto Único de Circulação ); ( 2 ) Personal Income Tax provides an allowance of EUR 803 upon the purchase of EVs ; ( 3 ) EVs are fully exempt from the 5 %- 10 % company car tax rates which are part of the Corporation Income Tax ; ( 4 ) The Budget Law provides for an increase of the depreciation costs related to the purchase of EVs for the purpose of Corporation Income Tax ; ( 5 ) the first 5, 000 EVs to be sold in Portugal will receive a 5, 000 € incentive fund, and the Cash-for-Clunkers program grants an additional 1, 500 € fund if an internal combustion engine vehicle built before 2000 is delivered when acquiring the new EV ; ( 6 ) The Portuguese State did also commit to play a pedagogic role and defined that EVs will have a 20 % share of the annual renewal of public car fleet, starting in 2011.

In 2000, the mines closed due to the fall of the price of mercury in the international market, caused by falling demand.

Simultaneously, the demand for betel leaves has been dropping in India because of contagious acceptance of gutkha ( chewing tobacco ) by consumers over betel leaf-based ‘‘ paan ’’ preparation ; the report cites betel leaf trading has dropped by 65 % from 2000 to 2010, and created an over supply.

It was later re-released under Epic / Immortal on November 7, 2000 after popular demand.

This point was driven home in one of the final reviews of 2000, when Richard Bremner's polemical “ Parting Shot ” essay in CAR magazine emphasised the electrical faults to which the car was prone ; the writer paid less attention to the remediation of the problem and to the fact that changed market conditions meant demand for the XM was never going to be the same as for its predecessor.

Statistics easily display the supply and demand effect of citizens wanting more government accessibility to news, policies, and contacts: " In 2000 only two percent of government sites offered three or more services online ; in 2007 that figure was 58 percent.

Under the Jubilee 2000 banner, a diverse coalition of groups joined together to demand debt cancellation at the G7 meeting in Cologne, Germany.

After the year 2000, strong demand for small portable music players such as Apple's iPods drove competition in component sales, resulting in data storage devices becoming increasingly inexpensive.

Gush Shalom said that Israel's offer to Yasser Arafat in the Camp David negotiations of 2000 was not a " generous offer " but " a humiliating demand for surrender ," publishing the maps from the proposal ( seldom published in the US ), and an animation from the maps showing how little would be left for a Palestinian state under the proposal Avnery was among the first to meet and negotiate with PLO leader Yasser Arafat.

On December 6, 2000, music legend Tina Turner played her last concert at the arena for the record breaking Twenty Four Seven Tour, but after popular demand, Turner returned to the arena before a sellout crowd on October 14, 2008, for her Tina!

In 2000, ICICI Bank became the first Indian bank to list on the New York Stock Exchange with its five million American depository shares issue generating a demand book 13 times the offer size.

De Vogüé believed that the supply of land under cultivation ( less than 25, 000 hectares ) would be exhausted by the demand for champagne by 2000.

In a separate dispute ( clumped with the above dispute by media outlets as the " Cox vs Fox " dispute ) that occurred around the same time, customers in Hampton Roads, Virginia lost access to LIN TV-owned Fox affiliate WVBT ( channel 43 ) on January 1, 2000 ; retransmission talks between WVBT and Cox broke down, reportedly due to a demand by WVBT to be placed somewhere between channels 2 and 14 ( it had been broadcast on channel 43 ).