This would make it a language family about as old as Indo-European ( 4000 to 7, 000 BC according to several hypotheses cited in Mallory 1997: 106 ) but considerably younger than Afroasiatic ( c. 10, 000 BC according to Diakonoff 1988: 33n, 11, 000 to 16, 000 BC according to Ehret 2002: 35 – 36 ).

British architects Brenda and Robert Vale have said that, as of 2002, " It is quite possible in all parts of Australia to construct a ' house with no bills ', which would be comfortable without heating and cooling, which would make its own electricity, collect its own water and deal with its own waste ... These houses can be built now, using off-the-shelf techniques.

In 2002, Clinton warned that pre-emptive military action against Iraq would have unwelcome consequences.

In December 2002, the EU formally invited Cyprus to join in 2004, insisting that EU membership would apply to the whole island and hoping that it would provide a significant enticement for reunification resulting from the outcome of ongoing talks.

Then-Bengals defensive coordinator Dick LeBeau ( who would later be the team's head coach from 2000 – 2002 ) created the zone blitz in the 1980s in response to the West Coast Offense.

In February 2002, the International Olympic Committee retroactively decided that the curling competition from the 1924 Winter Olympics ( originally called Semaine des Sports d ' Hiver, or International Winter Sports Week ) would be considered official Olympic events and no longer be considered demonstration events.

Bet would subsequently make brief return appearances in 1999, 2002 and 2003.

In 2002, Compaq signed a merger agreement with Hewlett-Packard for $ 24. 2 billion, including $ 14. 45 billion for goodwill, where each Compaq share would be exchanged for 0. 6325 of a Hewlett-Packard share.

Capellas stepped down on November 12, 2002, just six months on the job, to become CEO of MCI Worldcom where he would lead its acquisition by Verizon.

In October 2002, the new president was successful in getting occupying Rwandan forces to withdraw from eastern Congo ; two months later, an agreement was signed by all remaining warring parties to end the fighting and set up a Transition Government, the make-up of which would allow representation for all negotiating parties.

* 2002 – 2003 California recall: Then Governor of California Gray Davis announces that the state would face a record budget deficit of $ 35 billion, roughly double the figure reported during his reelection campaign one month earlier.

Although the track was edited out of the final cut, it would later be re-recorded and released as " Safe " on the B-side of Bowie's 2002 single " Everyone Says ' Hi '".

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.

The number of Bundestag Deputies was reduced from 656 to 598 beginning in 2002, although under the additional member system, more deputies may be admitted if a party wins more directly elected seats than it would be entitled to under proportional representation.

In a June 2002 column, Republican consultant and speechwriter Peggy Noonan expressed the hope that the Bush administration would change the name of the department, writing that, " The name Homeland Security grates on a lot of people, understandably.

This continued into 2010 when the Colts would only compile a 10 – 6 record, the first time the Colts did not win 12 games since 2002, and lose to the New York Jets in the wild card round of the playoffs.

While on the USS Bataan, Attorney General John Ashcroft, on January 16, 2002, announced that Lindh would be tried in the United States.

He would have to consent to a gag order that would prevent him from making any public statements on the matter for the duration of his 20-year sentence, and he would have to drop any claims that he had been mistreated or tortured by U. S. military personnel in Afghanistan and aboard two military ships during December 2001 and January 2002.

In July 2002, Ashcroft proposed the creation of Operation TIPS, a domestic program in which workers and government employees would inform law enforcement agencies about suspicious behavior they encounter while performing their duties.

He would perform for troops in January 2002 on an MTV USO Special at Germany's Ramstein Air Base along with Ja Rule and Jennifer Lopez.

* 2001 – Members of Islamist separatist group Abu Sayyaf seize twenty hostages from an upscale island resort on Palawan in the Philippines ; the hostage crisis would not be resolved until June 2002.

Harris was to appear in the planned TV movie, Lost in Space: The Journey Home, but died before production started in 2002 and the production was cancelled.

When Gulf + Western became Paramount Communications, and continuing until 2002, the Paramount logo would appear first followed by the underline and the byline beneath it.

In 2002, Sonic Team USA ported Sonic Adventure 2 to the Nintendo GameCube, the first home console Sonic title to appear on a major non-SEGA system following the cancellation of the Dreamcast.

As of 2002, fluid bearings appear to have a mean time between failures of more than 1300 years.

" " Cars " was featured on the soundtrack for the blockbuster 2002 videogame Grand Theft Auto: Vice City as part of the New Wave radio station Wave 103, although it did not appear on the soundtrack CD release for the game.

He continued to appear in film and TV during treatment, but ultimately died from the disease on April 16, 2002 at the age of 55.

It was reported in February 2002 that Fortuyn did not dare to appear in public owing to death threats.

In Austria, Euros appear as 1999, however all Austrian euro coins introduced in 2002 have this year on it ; unlike other countries of the Eurozone where mint year is minted in the coin.

In 2002, director Richard Loncraine persuaded Barker to appear as Winston Churchill's butler David Inches in the BBC-HBO drama The Gathering Storm and then cast him in the larger role of the General in the TV film My House in Umbria in 2003, alongside Maggie Smith ( whom he had, early in their careers, advised to give up acting as he felt she would not be a success ).

MEGO 004 Fennesz: Instrument 12 " ( 10. 1995 ) ( tracks appear on Fennesz: Field Recordings, released by Touch 09. 2002 )

For example, the 5. 9 ( 5, 984, 285 ) patent was granted in 1999, but didn't first appear on a Pez item until 2002.

He continued to appear on Letterman's show until his 81st birthday in 2002 before retiring from acting.

Reportedly, Dio approved of it, and had Tenacious D appear in his video " Push " from Killing the Dragon in 2002.

The online version of Webster's Third New International Dictionary, Unabridged ( Merriam-Webster, 2002 ) adds that the ISV " consists of words or other linguistic forms current in two or more languages " that " differ from New Latin in being adapted to the structure of the individual languages in which they appear.

This was clearly demonstrated in 2002, when the band was booked to appear on UK national TV channel GMTV, where they were to play " Don't You Want Me " before being interviewed.

Generator locking can also be used to ensure that multiple CRT monitors that appear in a movie are flicker-free, as was done in the British TV film Into The Void / Outside the Rules ( 2002 ) for example.

Jay-Z invited Kravitz to appear on the track " Guns and Roses " on his 2002 The Blueprint²: The Gift & the Curse.

More recently ( 2001 and 2002 ), Bailey and Richard Crandall showed that the existence of this and similar formulas has implications for the long-standing question of " normality " – whether and why the digits of certain mathematical constants ( including pi ) appear " random " in a particular sense.

Segments of that cartoon appear in the 2002 Attack of the Clones web documentary " Bucket Head ", and Jeremy Bulloch, who portrayed Fett in the original films, introduces the segment as coming from the Holiday Special.

Jing Ke himself does not appear in the films The Emperor's Shadow ( 1996 ), directed by Zhou Xiaowen, or Hero ( 2002 ) starring Jet Li ; but both films borrow elements from his story.

In early 2002 Dion had announced a three-year, 600-show contract to appear five nights a week in an entertainment extravaganza, A New Day ..., at The Colosseum at Caesars Palace, Las Vegas.

Kehot Publication Society ( 2002 ) has recently begun publication of a Bilingual Edition ; in this work notations appear whenever Shneur Zalman's rulings are at variance with those in Yosef Karo's Shulchan Aruch.

Such plans and programs appear to have been dormant, the existence of these though were concealed from UNSCOM during the inspections that began in 2002.

Aztlán has been used as the name of speculative fictional future states that emerge in the southwest US or Mexico after the central US government suffers collapse or major setback ; examples appear in such works as the novels Warday ( 1984 ), by Whitley Strieber and James Kunetka ; The Peace War ( 1984 ), by Vernor Vinge ; The House of the Scorpion ( 2002 ), by Nancy Farmer ; and World War Z ( 2006 ), by Max Brooks ; as well as the role-playing game Shadowrun ( 1989 ).