* Grzega, Joachim: “ On the Description of National Varieties: Examples from ( German and Austrian ) German and ( English and American ) English .” In: Linguistik Online 7 ( 2000 ).

Whereas in the past, the National and American leagues had separate administrative organizations ( which, for example, allowed for the introduction of different rules such as the designated hitter ), under Selig, Major League Baseball consolidated the administrative functions of both leagues into the Commissioner's Office in 2000.

* Abolition of the American and National league offices and presidencies, and inclusion of all umpiring crews into a common pool for AL and NL games, instead of having separate pools per league ( 2000 )

Adoption was slow at first ; in 2000 the National Federation of the Blind said there were only 3 of these in the USA, one owned by the NFB itself and the other two by the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society.

* Leslie Geddes ( deceased )- Professor Emeritus at Purdue University, electrical engineer, inventor, and educator of over 2000 biomedical engineers, received a National Medal of Technology in 2006 from President George Bush for his more than 50 years of contributions that have spawned innovations ranging from burn treatments to miniature defibrillators, ligament repair to tiny blood pressure monitors for premature infants, as well as a new method for performing cardiopulmonary resuscitation ( CPR ).

In a separate nod to pressure to restore civilian rule, the government organized several committees to compose a new constitution, including the August 2000 National Congress and November 2000 Tripartite Commission.

* National Book Award ( Finalist ) for The Feast of Love, 2000

Perhaps not surprisingly given the injury to Walker and the trading of two of the team's most popular players, the Rockies finished third in the National League in attendance in 2000, marking the first time in club history that it did not lead the league in attendance.

Between the national censuses, 1 % National Population Sample Surveys were taken in 1987, 1995, and 2005 ; 0. 1 % National Population Sample Surveys have been taken annually since 2000.

* Address to the National Summit on Africa, Washington, DC, February 2000

In 2000, Venter and Francis Collins of the National Institutes of Health and U. S. Public Genome Project jointly made the announcement of the mapping of the human genome, a full three years ahead of the expected end of the Public Genome Program.

In 2000 Eastman was inducted in the ( American ) National Women's Hall of Fame in Seneca Falls, New York.

In December 2000, US President Bill Clinton awarded Engelbart the National Medal of Technology, the United States ' highest technology award.

Its capabilities and political implications were investigated by a committee of the European Parliament during 2000 and 2001 with a report published in 2001, and by author James Bamford in his books on the National Security Agency of the United States.

In 2000 the United States Congress designated the Erie Canalway National Heritage Corridor to recognize the national significance of the canal system as the most successful and influential human-built waterway and one of the most important works of civil engineering and construction in North America.

Under the roof of the CJIS are the programs for the National Crime Information Center ( NCIC ), Uniform Crime Reporting ( UCR ), Fingerprint Identification, Integrated Automated Fingerprint Identification System ( IAFIS ), NCIC 2000, and the National Incident-Based Reporting System ( NIBRS ).

Members of the National Dance Company in the Puerto del Rosario Auditorium on 25 July 2000.

In 2000, on the 40th anniversary of the U-2 Incident, his family was presented his posthumously awarded Prisoner of War Medal, Distinguished Flying Cross, and National Defense Service Medal.

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In 2000, the film was ranked 29th on the American Film Institute's list of the top 100 comedy movies in American cinema and it was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being " culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant ".

** National Tournament Top 10 finishes: 1967, 1968, 1969, 1973, 1975, 1977, 1988, 1989, 1995, 1997, 1998 and 2000

A recipient of the Ordre National du Mérite recently requested from the order's Chancery the permission to call herself " chevalière ," and the request was granted ( AFP dispatch, Jan 28, 2000 ).

Frei Ruiz-Tagle was succeeded in 2000 by Socialist Ricardo Lagos, who won the presidency in an unprecedented runoff election against Joaquín Lavín of the rightist Alliance for Chile, by a very tight score of less than 200, 000 votes ( 51, 32 %).

Internet connectivity, very low by developed world standards, has been the focus of decentralised commune based development projects since the year 2000, while the government participates in the UN's Global Alliance for ICT and Development and the Connect Africa projects to further computer and internet availability in the country.

The MMM and MSM rejoined in a coalition that won the 2000 elections and, although a handful of MPs defected from the MSM in early 2005, both parties went together to the next election in July 2005, competing against the Alliance Sociale, a MLP-led coalition.

Since then there have been three democratic changes of government: in 1996, the democratic-liberal opposition and its leader Emil Constantinescu acceded to power ; in 2000 the Social Democrats returned to power, with Iliescu once again president ; and in 2004 Traian Băsescu was elected president, with an electoral coalition called Justice and Truth Alliance ( DA ).

In 2000, the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization was established to strengthen routine vaccinations and introduce new and under-used vaccines in countries with a per capita GDP of under US $ 1000.

The left wing faction either joined the Democratic Party of the Left or stayed within the new Italian People's Party, while some right-wingers others joined National Alliance, however in 1994 – 2000 most Christian Democrats joined Forza Italia, which would have become the party with more ex-DC members in absolute terms.

The Canadian Alliance (), formally the Canadian Reform Conservative Alliance (), was a Canadian conservative political party that existed from 2000 to 2003.

In 2000, following the second of the two United Alternative conventions, the party voted to dissolve in favour of a new party: the " Canadian Conservative Reform Alliance ", a declaration of policy and a new constitution.

In the fall of 2000, the Liberals called a snap election that caught the Alliance off-guard.

Additionally, U. S. based private equity firms raised $ 215. 4 billion in investor commitments to 322 funds, surpassing the previous record set in 2000 by 22 % and 33 % higher than the 2005 fundraising total The following year, despite the onset of turmoil in the credit markets in the summer, saw yet another record year of fundraising with $ 302 billion of investor commitments to 415 funds Among the mega-buyouts completed during the 2006 to 2007 boom were: Equity Office Properties, HCA, Alliance Boots and TXU.

It won majorities of the seats in Western Canada in repeated elections, but was unable to break through in Eastern Canada, though it became the official opposition from 1997 to 2003 ( Reform was renamed the Canadian Alliance in 2000 ).

Shortly after, in October 2000 Álvarez resigned after a scandal related to presidential bribes in the Senate ( the President's party refused to support or investigate the accusations ), so the Alliance ( and even the FrePaSo ) effectively broke down.

* Canadian Alliance, Canadian right-of-centre conservative political party that existed from 2000 to 2003

He was co-chairman of Alliance ' 90 / The Greens, the German Green party, from June 2000 to December 2002.

He became an MP and the leader of the parliamentary party of the Greens ( Alliance ' 90 / The Greens from 1993 ) in the Baden-Württemberg legislature in 1984, a position he held until 1988, and then later again from 1992 to 2000, having worked as a Professor of Linguistic Communication in the years in between.

Fritz Kuhn was one of the two federal chairpersons of Alliance ' 90 / The Greens from 2000 to 2002, first together with Renate Künast, then with Claudia Roth.

In November 1999 Inktomi acquired Webspective ; in August 2000 Inktomi acquired Ultraseek Server from Disney's Go. com ; in September, 2000, Inktomi acquired FastForward Networks ; in December 2000, Inktomi acquired the Content Bridge Business Unit from Adero, a content delivery network, which had formed the Content Bridge Alliance with Inktomi, AOL and a number of other ISPs, hosting providers and IP transport providers ; and in June 2001 Inktomi acquired eScene Networks.

In September 1998 Inktomi acquired C2B Technologies, adding a shopping engine technology to its portfolio ; In April 1999 Inktomi acquired Impulse Buy Network, adding 400 merchants to its shopping engine and performance based business shopping model ; in November 1999 Inktomi acquired Webspective ; in August 2000 Inktomi acquired Ultraseek Server from Disney's Go. com ; in September, 2000, Inktomi acquired FastForward Networks ; in December 2000, Inktomi acquired the Content Bridge Business Unit from Adero, a content delivery network, which had formed the Content Bridge Alliance with Inktomi, AOL and a number of other ISPs, hosting providers and IP transport providers ; and in June 2001 Inktomi acquired eScene Networks.

In 2000, Sixpence None the Richer contributed the song " Us " to Today Presents: the Best of Summer Concert Series CD, which raised money for the National Colorectal Cancer Research Alliance.

The Star Alliance was founded in 1997 which forced competing airlines to form Oneworld in 1999 and SkyTeam in 2000.