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.

The AFL became the de facto governing body when it pushed for the closure of the International Australian Football Council in 2002.

The second president was another member of the Union of Demicratic Forces-Petar Stoyanov and served until 2002, when the leader of the Bulgarian Socialist Party-Georgi Parvanov began to replace him, he won two mandates and served until 2011, when Rosen Plevneliev of the right-oriented GERB was elected for a five-year mandate.

* Crackerjack – a 2002 Australian comedy film about a wisecracking layabout who joins a lawn bowls club in order to be allowed to use a free parking spot but is forced to play bowls with the much older crowd when the club enters financial difficulty.

Although in 2002 the NYSE and the NASDAQ required that nominating committees consist of independent directors as a condition of listing, nomination committees have historically received input from management in their selections even when the CEO does not have a position on the board.

In 2002, the Lions won back-to-back Premierships when they defeated Collingwood 9. 12. 66 to 10. 1

For example, Ecuador has closed its main border crossing with Colombia every night since August 2002, when evidence emerged that Colombian guerrillas and paramilitaries were asserting control over Ecuador's border communities.

Pitcher Darryl Kile ( who died in 2002 ) signed as a free agent in the offseason, struggled in Colorado, going 13 – 17 with a 5. 20 ERA — a far cry from his numbers the prior year as a member of the Houston Astros, when he went 19 – 7 with a 2. 57 ERA.

The stock price of Compaq, which was around $ 25 when Capellas became CEO, was trading at half that by 2002.

The Montespertoli sub-zone was part of the Colli Fiorentini sub-zone until 2002 when it became its own tiny enclave.

In 2003 GDP was estimated to have grown by 2 percent, a slight improvement over 2002, the last year for which firm figures are available, when GDP expanded by 1. 8 percent in real terms to about US $ 600 million.

Eventually, Afghanistan went from a traditional economy to a centrally planned economy up until 2002 when it was replaced by a free market economy Gross domestic product has fallen substantially since the 1980s due to disruption of trade and transport as well as loss of labor and capital.

He was a notable member of Leung Ting's Wing Tsun organisation until 2002, when he formed his own organisation.

Fenway Park retained the metric measurement until mid-season 2002, when they were painted over.

Safir GT40 Spares licensed the use of the GT40 trademark to Ford for the initial 2002 show car, but when Ford decided to make the production vehicle, negotiations between the two failed, and as a result the new Ford GT does not wear the badge GT40.

The success of a multi-center trial for treating children with SCID ( severe combined immune deficiency or " bubble boy " disease ) held from 2000 and 2002 was questioned when two of the ten children treated at the trial's Paris center developed a leukemia-like condition.

This particular fact was reinforced when TV Guide ranked the series number 10 on its 50 Worst Shows of All Time List in 2002 ... a full 10 years after the last first-run episode aired on May 30, 1992 ( although the entry specifically refers to the Hee Haw Honeys spinoff, not the main show itself ).

The Socialists re-elected Ilir Meta as Prime Minister in August 2001, a post which he held till February 2002, when he resigned due to party infighting.

On 10 May 2002, the second of the Potters Bar rail accidents occurred killing seven people ; the train was at high speed when it derailed and flipped into the air when one of the carriages slid along the platform where it came to rest.

Hotel archivist Susan Scott recounts an anecdote that, when he was being taken out of the building on a stretcher shortly before his death in 2002, he raised his hand and told the diners " it was the food.

The number of servers grew from 2 – 4 when started, peaking at 44 in April 2002.

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.

* 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 "'.

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.

Declining to seek re-election in 2002, he was succeeded by fellow Republican Lindsey Graham.

On 30 November 2002, in an elaborate but solemn procession, six Republican Guards carried the coffin of Alexandre Dumas ( 1802 – 1870 ), the author of The Three Musketeers, to the Panthéon.

* Barbara Bilger ( Republican )-1990 to 1992 and 2002 to 2004 ( Mayor in 2002 & 2004, Deputy Mayor in 1992 & 2003 )

Maggi once ran for the Democratic nomination for Pennsylvania's 18th congressional district against Republican incumbent Tim Murphy in 2002.

Although the county is heavily Republican, and African-Americans make up less than 5 % of the county's population, in 2002 the county's voters elected Luther Parks as a county commissioner.

In 2002, however, Republican Elizabeth Dole defeated Bowles with 55 % of the vote here, and won by a large margin statewide.

Politics at the local level in Pulaski County were traditionally dominanted by the Democratic Party, but Republican Party candidates have become increasingly viable in the years since 2002, when the first large-scale victories of Republican candidates began.

In 2002, Republican gubernatorial nominee Dick Posthumus received 66. 1 % in Missaukee, which also ranked it as the # 2 most Republican county in the state.

During the 2002 election campaign, Davis took the unusual step of taking out campaign ads during the Republican primaries against Los Angeles mayor Richard Riordan.

Davis ' negative ads against Riordan and a variety of other equally important factors explained on the 2002 election page, led to Riordan's defeat in the Republican primary by the more staunchly conservative candidate Bill Simon.

In 2002, Simon campaigned unsuccessfully for Governor of California as a Republican against Democratic incumbent Gray Davis.

Simon won the Republican nomination in the primary election of March 2002.

In 2002 McCall officially announced his campaign against Republican incumbent George Pataki.

In 2002 he won his second term in office by defeating Republican challenger attorney Doug Gross by eight points.

* Robert Max Ross ( 1933 – 2009 ) ran unsuccessfully as a Republican for Louisiana governor in 1971 and 1983, the United States Senate in 1984 and 1986, the Louisiana State Senate in 1972, and mayor of Mangham in 2002.

Federally, Port Huron is part of Michigan's 10th congressional district, represented by Republican Candice Miller, elected in 2002.

* Clinton LeSueur ( born 1969 ), Republican politician who lost races in 2002 and 2004 for Mississippi's 2nd congressional district to incumbent Democrat Bennie Thompson

* Douglas Forrester ( born 1953 ), former mayor of West Windsor Township who was the Republican Party nominee for U. S. Senator in 2002 and Governor of New Jersey in 2005.

Republican Wendell N. Butler, Jr. was appointed Mayor of the City of Chester on October 9, 2002, to fill the unexpired term of Dominic Pileggi, who resigned to take a seat in the State Senate.

* J. E. " Buster " Brown, Republican State Senator from Texas Senate, District 17 ( Lake Jackson ) from 1981 to 2002, was born in Mercedes in 1940.

In another example Cato president Ed Crane and Sierra Club executive director Carl Pope co-wrote a 2002 op-ed piece in the Washington Post calling for the abandonment of the Republican energy bill, arguing that it had become little more than a gravy train for Washington, D. C. lobbyists.