Also, Sub-Saharan Africa was part of its region until April 2005, when AfriNIC was officially recognized by ICANN as the fifth Regional Internet Registry.

Regulatory Arbitrage was used for the first time in 2005 when it was applied by Scott V. Simpson, a partner at law firm Skadden, Arps, to refer to a new defence tactic in hostile mergers and acquisitions where differing takeover regimes in deals involving multi-jurisdictions are exploited to the advantage of a target company under threat.

* General assessment: an extensive but antiquated telecommunications network inherited from the Soviet era ; quality has improved ; the Bulgaria Telecommunications Company's fixed-line monopoly terminated in 2005 when alternative fixed-line operators were given access to its network ; a drop in fixed-line connections in recent years has been more than offset by a sharp increase in mobile-cellular telephone use fostered by multiple service providers ; the number of cellular telephone subscriptions now exceeds the population

Former COO Scott Arnold took the title of interim president and chief executive officer until November 8, 2005, when it was announced that Tod Nielsen would take over as CEO effective November 9, 2005.

Another happened in the summer of 2005, when painter Mark Chamberlain displayed a number of watercolors depicting both Batman and Robin in suggestive and sexually explicit poses.

The practice caught some attention in the spring of 2005, when fans performed the " O!

In the 2005 general election, the Liberal Democrats elected 62 MPs to the House of Commons, a far cry from the days when the Liberals had just 5 MPs and Liberalism as a political force had seemed moribund.

Rogers got in trouble when on June 29, 2005, he purposely grabbed the camera of a cameraman, resulting in one camera falling to the ground.

However, no borough was actually created under law until 2005 – 2006, when Neve Monosson and Maccabim-Re ' ut, both communal settlements ( Heb: yishuv kehilati ) founded in 1953 and 1984, respectively, were declared to be autonomous municipal boroughs ( Heb: vaad rova ironi ), within their mergers with the towns of Yehud and Modi ' in.

The " Florida Keys for Katrina Relief " had originally been set for October 23, 2005, when Hurricane Wilma barreled through the Florida Keys on October 24, causing flooding and economic mayhem.

Hot spots in the present civil war. The war started on December 23, 2005, when the government of Chad declared a state of war with Sudan and called for the citizens of Chad to mobilize themselves against the " common enemy ," which the Chadian government sees as the Rally for Democracy and Liberty ( RDL ) militants, Chadian rebels, backed by the Sudanese government, and Sudanese militiamen.

On 8 May 2005, Bozizé gained yet a further victory when his coalition, Convergence Kwa Na Kwa, won 42 parliamentary seats in the legislative run-off vote.

The White Sox last won the World Series in 2005 when they played the Houston Astros and swept them in four games.

Another pennant winner did not come until their championship season of 2005, when the White Sox won their first World Series championship in 88 years, breaking their epochal drought only a year after the Boston Red Sox had broken their slightly shorter but more celebrated " curse.

This was the situation in Germany in 2005 when Angela Merkel became Chancellor: in early elections, the CDU / CSU did not garner enough votes to form a majority coalition with the FDP ; similarly the SPD and Greens did not have enough votes to continue on with their formerly ruling coalition.

The loss marked a major turning point in Northern Territory politics, a result which was exacerbated when, at the 2005 NT election, the ALP won a second landslide victory, reducing the once-dominant party to a total of just four members in the Legislative Assembly. The 2008 saw the CLP reverse its earlier election losses, increasing its representation from four to 11 members.

The city has been connected to the Proastiakos, the Athens suburban rail network, since 2005, when the new Corinth railway station was completed.

The case was re-investigated in early 2005, when the new law came into effect, and his case was referred to the Court of Appeal in November 2005 for permission for a new trial, which was granted.

Other instances include the 2005 Monday Night game against the Washington Redskins when the team inducted Troy Aikman, Emmitt Smith, and Michael Irving into the Cowboys Ring of Honor, and the 2006 Christmas Day game against the Philadelphia Eagles.

He also held the records for the oldest Serie A player and most Serie A appearances ( 570 matches ) for more than 20 years, until the season 2005 – 06 when the record was broken by S. S. Lazio goalkeeper Marco Ballotta and A. C. Milan defender Paolo Maldini respectively.

* 2005 – The civil war in Chad begins when rebel groups, allegedly backed by neighbouring Sudan, launch an attack in Adré.

In September 2005, as part of its campaign to demonstrate that the military allowed open homosexuals to serve when its manpower requirements were greatest, the Center for the Study of Sexual Minorities in the Military ( now the Palm Center ), a reported that army regulations allowed the active duty deployment of Army Reservists and National Guard troops who claim to be or who are accused of being gay.

The years 1968 and 2005 had the next driest Februaries, when 8. 4 mm of rain fell.

In the second, Wells ruled from the bench in accepting IBM's motion to limit SCO's claims to those supported by evidence submitted by December 22, 2005 and not rejected by the court.

Lautenberg was not in the Senate at the time of the original Patriot Act in 2001 ; when the 2005 reauthorization came to the Senate floor, Lautenberg voted against cloture but voted in favor of accepting the conference report.

Several other top-level domain registries started accepting registrations in 2004 and 2005.

In a later book however ( Reassembling the Social: An Introduction to Actor – Network – Theory ), Latour reversed himself, accepting the wide use of the term, “ including the hyphen ” ( Latour 2005: 9 ).

Test returned to the ring in May 2005, and began accepting bookings with various independent promotions.

The system became interoperable with the E-ZPass toll collection system on October 27, 2004, although Richmond Metropolitan Authority owned toll roads — Boulevard Bridge, the Downtown Expressway, and the Powhite Parkway ( excluding the extension )— did not begin accepting E-ZPass until August 3, 2005 ; E-ZPass integration had been delayed due to damages from Tropical Storm Gaston.

In 2005 the insurance broker Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. agreed to a $ 27 million settlement with the Illinois Attorney General with regard to accepting contingent commissions and decided to end the practice of collecting contingent commissions within the company.

The examinership concluded in July 2005 with the examiner accepting the 400 Club's bid for Shamrock Rovers, saving the club from extinction, and the supporters-owned club won promotion at the first attempt in 2006 under Pat Scully.

It was installed in the DNS root in September 2005, and began accepting registrations later in the year.

The Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame decided to honour the song in 2005, officially accepting it as part of the Canadian Song Hall of Fame.

Cunningham resigned from the House on November 28, 2005, after pleading guilty to accepting at least $ 2. 4 million in bribes and under-reporting his income for 2004.

In April 2005, NWA Wildside closed down, after producing 300 consecutive weeks of television, as a result of owner Behrens accepting a job with World Wrestling Entertainment.

Therefore in 2005 it was decided to switch to Moore Hall, which Marlatt has a better, more " accepting ," relationship with.

During his June 15, 2005 testimony at the inquiry into Maher Arar's deportation and imprisonment, Pillarella claimed he had no conclusive reason to believe Arar was being tortured, and admitted to accepting the word of Syrian officials that he was not.

In September, 2005, the Michigan state legislature voted almost unanimously against accepting Toronto's garbage.

According to Financial News, the company was the fastest growing asset manager from 2000 until 2005, when it stopped accepting new accounts.

At a court appearance on 15 September 2005, High Court Justice Gerard Winter refused an application from Silatolu's lawyer, Inoke Josefa, to require the Military to produce the results of an inquiry it had conducted into the 2000 crisis, accepting their objection that it could compromise national security.

Led Zeppelin were the recipient of a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 2005, and four of their recordings have been inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame.

As a former member of Led Zeppelin, along with Page and John Paul Jones, Plant received the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 2005 and the Polar Music Prize in 2006.

( 2005 ) Recollections of a Lifetime Or Men and Things I Have Seen in a Series of Familiar Letters to a Friend.

In 2005, the group was awarded the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award.

** 2005: Gladys Knight received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the BET cable network.

In February 2005, he received the Screen Actors Guild's Lifetime Achievement Award.

* 2005: Andre Leon Talley Lifetime Achievement Award – Savannah College of Art & Design

Professor Dennis Showalter, the 2005 recipient of the Samuel Eliot Morison Prize for Lifetime Achievement in Military History, is an expert on World War II, a Distinguished Visiting Professor at West Point and the United States Air Force Academy, reviewer for the History Book Club, and author of Tannenberg: Clash of Empires, the 1992 winner of the American Historical Association's Paul Birdsall Prize.

In addition to participating in an international array of group exhibitions such as the Venice Biennale ( 1997, 1980, 1976 ), the Whitney Biennial ( 1995, 1977 ), and Documenta, Kassel, Germany ( 1972 ), Martin has been the recipient of multiple honors including the Lifetime Achievement Award on behalf of the Women ’ s Caucus for Art of the College Art Association ( 2005 ); the Governor ’ s Award for Excellence and Achievement in the Arts given by Governor Gary Johnson, Santa Fe, New Mexico ( 1998 ); the National Medal of Arts awarded by President Bill Clinton and the National Endowment for the Arts ( 1998 ); the Distinguished Artist Award for Lifetime Achievement by the College Art Association ( 1998 ); the Golden Lion for Contribution to Contemporary Art at the Venice Biennale ( 1997 ); the Oskar Kokoschka Prize awarded by the Austrian government ( 1992 ); the Alexej von Jawlensky Prize awarded by the city of Wiesbaden, Germany ( 1991 ); and election to the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, New York ( 1989 ).

Around 2005, Lifetime dropped its signature tagline Television for Women ( used since 1995 ).

On March 31, 2005, Betty Cohen, previously an executive at Turner Broadcasting Services, was named CEO of Lifetime Entertainment Services according to the Walt Disney Company.

In 2005, Lowe starred in the miniseries Beach Girls on the Lifetime network, based on the Luanne Rice novel of the same name.

His contribution to cinema and theatre saw him awarded a CBE in 2000, and a Directors Guild Lifetime Achievement Award in 2005.

In 2005, he received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Royal Academy of Engineering.

Among the awards he has received are the Bôcher Memorial Prize ( 1969 ) and the Steele Prize for Lifetime Achievement ( 2000 ), both from the American Mathematical Society, the Eugene Wigner Medal ( 1988 ), the National Medal of Science ( 1983 ), the Abel Prize ( 2004, shared with Michael Atiyah ), and the James Rhyne Killian Faculty Achievement Award from MIT ( 2005 ).

In 2004 he was inducted in the Computer Hall of Fame ( hosted by the San Diego Computer Museum, part of the San Diego State University Library ), and in 2005 was presented with a Lifetime Achievement Award from the University of Arizona's College of Engineering.

In 2005, Lumet received an Academy Award for Lifetime Achievement for his " brilliant services to screenwriters, performers, and the art of the motion picture.

He is currently a Laureus Academy member and OrphanAid Africa Lifetime ambassador to Ghana and France ( since 2005 ).

Ride of a Lifetime: The Sandy Hawley Story ( 2005 ) H. B.

* In 2005, he received the Zee Cine Award for Lifetime Achievement.

It was broadcast on Showtime and Lifetime in 2005.

* In 2005, the National Association of Black Journalists awarded Bradley, who was one of the first African Americans to break into network television news, with their Lifetime Achievement Award.

It included a 27-minute long piece titled " Once Upon a Lifetime Parts I-V ", and a short protest song called " Amona ", dealing with the 2005 events in Amona.