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In February 2000, the Luxottica Group acquired Sunglass Hut, paying US $ 653 million and taking possession of 1, 300 Sunglass Hut stores, 430 Sunglass Hut-Watch Station combination stores, and 228 stores that operated under either the Watch Station or Watch World banner.
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* He married, on October 9, 1944, in Geneva, Switzerland, Yvonne Blanche Labrousse ( February 15, 1906-July 1, 2000 ).
* Telstra ( formerly Telecom Australia )-operated an AMPS network in Australia from February 1987 until the end of 2000.
Cyprus recognized Bosnia and Herzegovina ’ s independence on 7 February 2000, both countries established diplomatic relations on the same date.
* The C ++ Programming Language by Bjarne Stroustrup – Addison-Wesley Pub Co ; 3rd edition ( February 15, 2000 ); ISBN 0-201-70073-5
A proposed merger between Inprise and Corel was announced in February 2000, aimed at producing Linux based products.
Costa Rican colones (₡) per US $ 1 – 512. 11 ( September 4, 2010 ), US $ 1 – 559. 51 ( October 24, 2008 ), per US $ 1 – 500. 10 ( December 2007 ), 516. 78 ( November 2007 ), 506. 11 ( April 2006 ), 479. 57 ( July 2005 ), 299. 63 ( February 2000 ), 285. 68 ( 1999 ), 257. 23 ( 1998 ), 232. 60 ( 1997 ), 207. 69 ( 1996 ) and 179. 73 ( 1995 )
The FARC suspended talks in November 2000, to protest what it called " paramilitary terrorism " but returned to the negotiating table in February 2001, following 2 days of meetings between President Pastrana and FARC leader Manuel Marulanda.
In February 1997, with the legal right to the Coldcut name back, they released a double pack single " Atomic Moog 2000 " / " Boot the System ", the first Coldcut release on Ninja Tune.
To assist the new government, since February 2000 the United Nations has had the United Nations Mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo ( now called MONUSCO ), which currently has a strength of over 16, 000 peacekeepers in the country.
James became prime minister, serving until the February 2000 elections, when the Dominica United Workers Party ( DUWP ) was defeated by the Dominica Labour Party ( DLP ), led by Rosie Douglas.
* On February 2, 2000, Philippe Binant, technical manager of Digital Cinema Project at Gaumont in France, realized the first digital cinema projection in Europe with the Texas Instruments mark V prototype projector.
Encarta was the top-selling multimedia encyclopaedia, based on total US retail sales from January 2000 to February 2006.
Shelby's first victory came on their maiden race with the Ford program, with Ken Miles and Lloyd Ruby taking a Shelby American-entered GT40 to victory in the Daytona 2000 in February 1965.
An interim government turned over power in February 2000 when opposition leader Kumba Ialá took office following two rounds of transparent presidential elections.
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; May 2011: On 14 February 2011, the W3C extended the charter of its HTML Working Group with clear milestones for HTML5.
Alexander presided over Montgomery's victory at the Second Battle of El Alamein and the advance of the Eighth Army to Tripoli, for which Alexander was elevated to a knight grand cross of the Order of the Bath, and, after the Anglo-American forces from Operation Torch and the Eighth Army converged in Tunisia in February 1943, they were brought under the unified command of a newly-formed 18th Army Group headquarters, commanded by Alexander and reporting to Dwight D. Eisenhower, the Supreme Allied Commander in the Mediterranean at the Allied Forces Headquarters.
At the 17th session ( February 1978 ), the related UN / ECE Group of Experts agreed that the three-letter alphabetic codes for International Standard ISO 4217, " Codes for the representation of currencies and funds ", would be suitable for use in international trade.
In February 2006, the Object Management Group ( OMG ) announced that they had been granted the right to develop new specifications based on the ODMG 3. 0 specification and the formation of the Object Database Technology Working Group ( ODBT WG ).
SIMULA 67 was formally standardized on the first meeting of the SIMULA Standards Group ( SSG ) in February 1968.
The Group originated in a summit meeting of the heads of state or government of Czechoslovakia, Hungary and Poland held in the Hungarian castle town of Visegrád on 15 February 1991 ( not to be mistaken with Vyšehrad, a castle in Prague, the capital city of the Czech Republic, or with the town of Višegrad in Bosnia and Herzegovina ).
The company was owned by Italian state holding company Istituto per la Ricostruzione Industriale between 1932 and 1986, when it became a part of the Fiat Group, and since February 2007 a part of Fiat Group Automobiles S. p. A.
In February 2011, the IUCN / SSC Tortoise and Freshwater Turtle Specialist Group published a report about the top 25 species of turtles most likely to become extinct, with a further 40 species at very high risk of becoming extinct.
In February, he began working with the National Negro Congress, and in April he chaired the South Side Writers ' Group, whose membership included Arna Bontemps and Margaret Walker.
Dow Jones sold a 90 % stake in its Index business for $ 607. 5M to Chicago-based CME Group, which owns the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, in February 2010.
On February 20, 2007, the US Supreme Court ruled that the Altria Group ( formerly Philip Morris ) did not have to pay $ 79. 5 million in punitive damages awarded to Mayola Williams in a 1999 Oregon court ruling, when she sued Phillip Morris for responsibility in the cancer death of her husband, Jesse Williams.
* Brett Duval Fromson, Hitting the Jackpot: The Inside Story of the Richest Indian Tribe in History, Atlantic Monthly Press, September, 2003, hardcover, 320 pages, ISBN 0-87113-904-9 ; hardcover, Gale Group, February, 2004, hardcover, 366 pages, ISBN 0-7862-6211-7
In February 2011 General Motors and GAZ Group signed an agreement on contract assembly of the new Chevrolet Aveo car at GAZ plant in Nizhny Novgorod.
General Harold Alexander arrived in Tunisia in late February to take charge of the new 15th Army Group headquarters, which had been created to take overall control of both the Eighth Army and the Allied forces already fighting in Tunisia.
Embracing the Secretaries of State and Defense and the National Security Adviser, the Tuesday Lunch Group met 27 times between February and September 1964.
The stores continued to operate under the Borders brand as the unaffiliated " Borders Asia Pacific " until RedGroup was placed into voluntary administration in February 2011 ; with the five New Zealand stores sold to the James Pascoe Group, and the Australian stores gradually shut down, with the last group to close by July 17.
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