fixed-line connections stand at less than 1 per 100 persons ; equipment is old and outdated, and connections with many parts of the country are unreliable ; mobile-cellular usage, in part a reflection of the poor condition and general inadequacy of the fixed-line network, increased more than 6-fold between 2002 and 2007 reaching a subscribership base of 25 per 100 persons

On July 5, 2002 the Cubs promoted assistant general manager and player personnel director Jim Hendry to the General Manager position.

The man behind the Frisbee's phenomenal success, however, was Edward " Steady Ed " Headrick ( Pasadena, Cal., June 28, 1924 — La Selva Beach, Cal., August 12, 2002 ), hired in 1964 as Wham-O's new general manager and vice president in charge of marketing.

Kenny defeated Richard Bruton, Phil Hogan and Gay Mitchell in the leadership election, which was triggered by the resignation of Michael Noonan following the 2002 general election.

At the general election of 2002 that it made a breakthrough, getting 6 Teachtaí Dála ( TDs ) elected to the Dáil with 4 % of the national vote.

* 2002 – Benjamin O. Davis Jr., American Air Force general ( b. 1912 )

Despite wide critical acclaim for its acts and a dedicated fanbase, Jeepster nevertheless found itself financially troubled by 2002, largely due to increasing recording and marketing costs, and difficulty cultivating the images of their acts in the eye of the general public.

The strategy backfired, ripping his party wide open and resulting in its humiliating defeat of his candidate, Kenyatta's son, in the December 2002 general elections.

In 2002 Amadou Toumani Touré, a retired general who had been the leader of the military aspect of the 1991 democratic uprising, was elected.

Since the institution of a democratic form of government in 2002, Mali's relations with the West in general and the United States in particular have improved significantly.

* 1917 – Van Tien Dung, Vietnamese general and politician ( d. 2002 )

This, along with the poor box office performance in 2002 of the film Star Trek Nemesis, cast an uncertain light upon the future of the Star Trek franchise in general.

Extraterrestrial civilizations may, as Harrison ( 2002 ) speculates, cause a profound technological and societal impact of a magnitude much greater than the Industrial Revolution of the late-eighteenth to nineteenth centuries, and extraterrestrial life in general may give us knowledge of extraterrestrial biochemistry.

The drop in the petroleum sector was caused by adherence to the OPEC quota established in 2002 and the virtual cessation of exports during the PdVSA-led Venezuelan general strike of 2002-2003.

* December 13 – Arnold Brown, Salvation Army general ( d. 2002 )

John Rawls ( 1921 – 2002 ) proposed a contractarian approach that has a decidedly Kantian flavour, in A Theory of Justice ( 1971 ), whereby rational people in a hypothetical " original position ", setting aside their individual preferences and capacities under a " veil of ignorance ", would agree to certain general principles of justice and legal organization.

In 2003, Consumer Reports, based on complaints about 2002 model new cars that in general are less than one year usage, ranked Hyundai's reliability tied with Honda's ; however, J. D.

He is the author of six books for a general audience: The Language Instinct ( 1994 ), How the Mind Works ( 1997 ), Words and Rules ( 2000 ), The Blank Slate ( 2002 ), The Stuff of Thought ( 2007 ), and The Better Angels of Our Nature ( 2011 ).

), Psychopharmacology: A Generation of Progress ( 2002 ), a general historical analysis.

A one-time communist and former member of the social-democratic Labour Party, Fortuyn was elected " lijsttrekker " of the newly formed Livable Netherlands party by a large majority on 26 November 2001, prior to the Dutch general election of 2002.

In the heavily polarized Dutch general election of 2002, dominated by the rise and murder of Pim Fortuyn, the VVD lost fourteen seats, leaving only twenty-four.

The PvdA was expected to perform very well in the 2002 general election.

The eponymous founder of the party was Pim Fortuyn, a charismatic former university professor and political columnist who initially had planned to contest the 2002 general election as leader of the Livable Netherlands ( LN ) party.

The 2002 general election proved a great success for the LPF, yielding 17 % of the votes and 26 seats in the House of Representatives — by far a record number of seats in the Netherlands for a new party — to become the second largest party.

The split forced Day to call a new leadership convention, and, in April 2002, Stephen Harper defeated Day at the subsequent Canadian Alliance leadership election.

Salt Lake City hosted the 16th Winter Deaflympic games in 2007, taking place in the venues in Salt Lake City and Park City, and Rotary International chose the city as the host site of their 2007 convention, which was the single largest gathering in Salt Lake City since the 2002 Winter Olympics.

Significant new investment in tourism, including a 648-room Marriott hotel and convention center that opened in December 2002, as well as continued government efforts to diversify the economy, are expected to improve economic performance.

In November 1999, Wizards announced that Gen Con would leave Milwaukee after the 2002 convention.

In 2002, Lord delivered what the media and others hailed as an electrifying speech at the national Progressive Conservative Party of Canada convention in Edmonton, Alberta, which started speculation that he might run for a job in federal politics, specifically, replacing Joe Clark as federal PC leader.

In January 2002, Lastman was ridiculed for greeting and shaking hands with members of the Hells Angels motorcycle gang when they held a convention in Toronto.

The split forced Day to call a new leadership convention, and, in April 2002, Stephen Harper defeated Day at the subsequent Canadian Alliance leadership election.

Clark announced his impending resignation as party leader at the PC Party's bi-annual convention held in Edmonton, Alberta in August 2002.

The Green Party of Canada is founded on six key principles that were adopted at the 2002 convention of the Global Greens.

However, in 2002, Philips published a convention paper arguing against this in Convention Paper 5616.

Sandton is home to the Sandton Convention Centre, one of the largest convention centres on the continent and primary site of the 2002 World Summit on Sustainable Development ( also known as " Rio + 10 "), which Johannesburg hosted.

Orchard was one of Clark's staunchest defenders during the lead-up to the August 2002 convention that saw Clark resign as Tory leader after the disintegration of the parliamentary PC-Democratic Representative Caucus coalition in May 2002.

In the run-up to the 2002 presidential election, the PUSC party convention selected him to be its candidate by an overwhelming 76 % of the delegates ' votes on 10 June 2001.

In the FNM's party convention the following the general elections of 2002, Ingraham was returned to the post of leader.

Liberal leader Camille Theriault resigned in March 2001, and a leadership convention was set from May 12, 2002.

In 2002, Cheshunt hosted the only officially licensed European BotCon convention ever.

The party was registered on October 25, 2002. and its founding convention was held for two days beginning on February 14, 2003, in Red Deer, Alberta.

Years later, writer Simon Furman offered an " unofficial " conclusion to the Generation 2 storyline with " Alignment ", a text story available exclusively through the British Transformers convention, Transforce, in 2001 and 2002.

He was unopposed in his bid for the position, and was consequently acclaimed for a two year term on October 27, 2002 at the party's convention of that year.

Boston was announced as the host of the convention on November 13, 2002.

The Code was agreed at a meeting of the 108 signatories to the SOLAS convention in London in December 2002.

In 2002, The Panics were the first Australian band to be invited to play at In The City, the UK's annual music convention.

Comic Party was licensed in North America by The Right Stuf International and first announced at the Illinois anime convention, Anime Central, on April 20, 2002.