The Advanced Encryption Standard ( AES ) is a specification for the encryption of electronic data established by the U. S. National Institute of Standards and Technology ( NIST ) in 2002.

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* CNN A short article on the U. S. policy banning political assassination since 1976 from CNN. com / Law Center, November 4, 2002.

of Docs., U. S. G. P. O., 1994 – 2002.

The U. S. Peace Corps returned to Botswana in August 2002 with a focus on HIV / AIDS-related programs after concluding 30 years of more broadly targeted assistance in 1997.

The 2003 All-Star Game had the same U. S. viewership as 2002 ( 9. 5 rating ; 17 share ) and the ratings declined in 2004 ( 8. 8 rating ; 15 share ) and 2005 ( 8. 1 rating ; 14 share ).

The Sarbanes – Oxley Act of 2002 has introduced new standards of accountability on boards of U. S. companies or companies listed on U. S. stock exchanges.

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2002 ), a U. S. court of appeals held that H. Beatty Chadwick could be held indefinitely under federal law, for his failure to produce US $ 2. 5 mill.

But follow-up studies have ( depending on who was summarizing the results ) failed to replicate the phenomenon or produced mixed results ( Bem & others, 2001 ; Milton & Wiseman, 2002 ; Storm, 2000, 2003 ). One skeptic, magician James Randi, has a longstanding offer — now U. S. $ 1 million —“ to anyone who proves a genuine psychic power under proper observing conditions ” ( Randi, 1999 ).

In 2002, Djibouti agreed to host a U. S. military presence at Camp Lemonnier, a former French Foreign Legion base outside the capital that now houses approximately 3, 500 American personnel.

The 2003 Berkeley report stated that in 2002 alone, " telephone calls worldwide on both landlines and mobile phones contained 17. 3 exabytes of new information if stored in digital form " and that " it would take 9. 25 exabytes of storage to hold all U. S. calls each year.

On 17 January 2002 a spokesman for the project stated that, as a result of U. S. pressure and economic difficulties, " Galileo is almost dead.

Since then, gubernatorial elections have been offset by two years from U. S. Presidential elections ( e. g., Presidential elections were in 2000 and 2004, gubernatorial elections were in 1998 and 2002 ).

The major element is foreign remittances, reported as $ 931 million in 2002, primarily from the U. S. Foreign assistance, meanwhile, was $ 130 million in FY 2002.

* In 2002, Singapore accused Hezbollah of recruiting Singaporeans in a failed 1990s plot to attack U. S. and Israeli ships in the Singapore Straits.

Cooperation between the U. S. and Indonesia on counter-terrorism has increased steadily since 2002, as terrorist attacks in Bali ( October 2002 and October 2005 ), Jakarta ( August 2003 and September 2004 ) and other regional locations demonstrated the presence of terrorist organizations, principally Jemaah Islamiyah, in Indonesia.

* 2002 In the U. S. A., the Social Security Act is amended to include interstitial cystitis as a disability: ' This Ruling explains that IC ( a complex, chronic bladder disorder ), when accompanied by appropriate symptoms, signs, and laboratory findings, is a medically determinable impairment that can be the basis for a finding of " disability "'.

An associate of Abu Zubaydah, al-Libi was one of those whose assets were frozen by order of the September 26, 2002 list of terrorists released by the U. S. government following the September 11 attacks.

* 1920 – Raymond U. Lemieux, Canadian chemist ( d. 2002 )

According to Christopher Ehret ( 2002: 35 – 36 ), Proto-Afroasiatic was spoken c. 11, 000 BC at the latest and possibly as early as c. 16, 000 BC.

An the other hand, the armed forces of the MPLA ( now the official armed forces of the Angolan state ) and of UNITA fought each other until the leader of UNITA, Jonas Savimbi, was killed in action, in 2002.

From 2002 to 2010, the system as defined by the constitution of 1992 functioned in a relatively normal way.

It is still recovering from the Angolan Civil War that plagued Angola from independence in 1975 until 2002.

Since 2002, when the 27-year civil war ended, the country has worked to repair and improve ravaged infrastructure and weakened political and social institutions.

In 2002 one was lost during the civil war with UNITA forces.

From the mid-1980s through at least 1992, the United States was the primary source of military and other support for the UNITA rebel movement, which was led from its creation through 2002 by Jonas Savimbi.

The PRC has invested heavily in Angola since the end of the civil war in 2002.

The Intelligent Mechatronics Lab, directed by Hiroshi Kobayashi at the Tokyo University of Science, has developed an android head called Saya, which was exhibited at Robodex 2002 in Yokohama, Japan.

* W. S. Judd, C. S. Campbell, E. A. Kellogg, P. F. Stevens, M. J. Donoghue, 2002.

* W. S. Judd, C. S. Campbell, E. A. Kellogg, P. F. Stevens, M. J. Donoghue ( 2002 ).

* Bailey, C. S. & Dolby, K. ( 2002 ).

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* W. S. Judd, C. S. Campbell, E. A. Kellogg, P. F. Stevens, M. J. Donoghue ( 2002 ).

* Cristian S. Calude ( 2002 ).

* Slater, Don 2002, ' Social Relationships and Identity Online and Offline ', in L. Lievrouw and S. Livingston ( eds ), The Handbook of New Media, Sage, London, pp533 – 46.

* Jones, D. and S. Plaatje ( 1916 ), " A Sechuana Reader ", London: ULP ; rpt in Jones ( 2002 ).

* W. S. Judd, C. S. Campbell, E. A. Kellogg, P. F. Stevens, M. J. Donoghue ( 2002 ).

Many of the AABC firms were bought out by other consulting companies in 2002, most notably, Deloitte ( especially in Europe ), Hitachi Consulting, PwC Consulting, which was later acquired by IBM, and KPMG Consulting, which later changed its name to BearingPoint.

Newspaper and television journalists have hypothesized that the stock market downturn of 2002 was precipitated by reports of accounting irregularities at Enron, Worldcom, and other firms in the United States.

at MIT found that some business models, as defined by them, indeed performed better than others in a dataset consisting of the largest U. S. firms, in the period 1998 through 2002, while they did not prove whether the existence of a business model mattered.

The Sarbanes – Oxley Act of 2002 (), also known as the ' Public Company Accounting Reform and Investor Protection Act ' ( in the Senate ) and ' Corporate and Auditing Accountability and Responsibility Act ' ( in the House ) and more commonly called Sarbanes – Oxley, Sarbox or SOX, is a United States federal law that set new or enhanced standards for all U. S. public company boards, management and public accounting firms.

As global firms scrambled to avoid missing the China boom, FDI in China rose by 22. 6 % in 2002.

Since 2002, many UK law firms and law schools have celebrated an annual Pro Bono Week, which encourages lawyers to offer pro bono services and increases general awareness of pro bono service.

The twenty-first century saw the company return to independence when it was purchased from Diageo by a group of investment firms led by TPG Capital for in 2002.

Many of the AABC firms were bought out by other consulting companies in 2002, most notably, Hitachi Consulting and KPMG Consulting, which later changed its name to BearingPoint.

Those standards were relaxed in 2002, while standards for domestic firms were raised, ensuring that all companies met the same standards.

Homes and offices of executives at six firms, including Ranbaxy, Generics UK, Norton Healthcare, Goldshield and Regent-GM. were raided by the SFO in May 2002.

Vocera received venture capital funding from a mix of venture capital firms and corporate investors, including Avalon Ventures, Cisco Systems, GGV Capital ( formerly Granite Global Ventures ), IDEO, Intel Communications Fund, Motorola Ventures, RRE Ventures, Thomas Weisel Partners, Vanguard Ventures and Venrock Associates, and began shipping products in 2002.

As global firms scramble to avoid missing the China boom ; FDI in China has risen 22. 6 % in 2002.

Where baby boomers are proficient in specified knowledge regarding a specific firm, generation X knowledge workers acquire knowledge from many firms and take that knowledge with them from company to company ( 2002 ).

The district's popularity has exploded since the opening of BTAP and 798 Space in 2002, with scores of galleries, lofts, publishing firms, design companies, high-end tailor shops, and cafés and fancy restaurants setting up.

Because the market failure related to environmental and climate protection as a result of external costs, high future commercial rates and associated high initial costs for research, development, and marketing of green energy sources and green products prevents firms from being voluntarily interested in reducing environment-unfriendly activities ( Reinhardt, 1999 ; King and Lenox, 2002 ; Wagner, 203 ; Wagner, et al., 2005 ), the green economy may need government subsidies as market incentives to motivate firms to invest and produce green products and services.

( 2002 ) " The relationship between environmental and economic performance of firms: what does the theory propose and what does the empirical evidence tell us?

In a 2002 interview he said " some form of orientation towards privatisation " in health, education and superannuation, such as giving firms tax breaks for employer super schemes, made sense.

In 2002, Young introduced the Legal Aid Services Amendment Act ( Bill 181 ), which permitted Legal Aid Ontario to hire staff lawyers and contract with individual lawyers and law firms.

In 2002, IBM Global Services acquired the management consulting and technology services arm of PricewaterhouseCoopers, around the same time the other Big Four accounting firms were selling off their consulting arms ( this was from intense pressure to avoid conflicts of interest in light of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act ).

Following the enactment of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board ( PCAOB ) was established in order to monitor, regulate, inspect, and discipline audit and public accounting firms of public companies.

In 2002, Reddy ’ s started its European operations by acquiring two pharmaceutical firms in the United Kingdom.

Large firms and institutional change: industrial renewal and economic restructuring in France ( Oxford University Press, 2002 )

Since 2002, several private US flight training firms have undertaken due diligence and negotiations to purchase the 17 surviving T / A4K aircraft and the 17 Aermacchi MB339CB's as a package deal.