However, some of the more successful American League teams of recent memory, including the 2002 Anaheim Angels, the 2001 Seattle Mariners and the 2005 Chicago White Sox have experienced their success in part as a result of playing " small ball ," advancing runners through means such as the stolen base and the related hit and run play.

Exports of non-traditional products such as flowers ($ 291 million in 2002 ) and canned fish ($ 333 million in 2002 ) have grown in recent years.

The most recent major campus construction project to be completed was the construction of the Rapp Technical Design Center in 2002.

Adenauer was the main motive for one of the most recent and famous gold commemorative coins: the Belgian 3 pioneers of the European unification commemorative coin, minted in 2002.

More recent buildings like Frank Gehry's Stata Center ( 2004 ), Steven Holl's Simmons Hall ( 2002 ), Charles Correa's Building 46 ( 2005 ), Fumihiko Maki's Media Lab Extension ( 2009 ) stand out among the Boston area's classical architecture and serve as examples of contemporary campus " starchitecture ".

Mexico was not significantly influenced by the recent 2002 South American crisis, and maintained positive, although low, rates of growth after a brief period of stagnation in 2001.

Kevin N. Laforest of the Montreal Film Journal commented in his September 2002 review that Cruz " has been getting some really bad reviews for her recent American work, but I personally think that she's a more than decent actress, especially here, where she's charming, moving and always believable.

The report picked up on an article originally written in 2002 by Jonathan Kay of the New York Times regarding the recent introduction of " Nazi protagonists " in the online gaming market ( referring specifically to Day of Defeat and Wolfenstein ).

A cumulation of close games, including a goal after the siren win by Daryn Cresswell in 2002, and immense and 100 + point winning margins, ensured the Swans ' rivalry was maintained with the Kangaroos in recent years.

According to the last official count from 2002, Skopje has a population of 506, 926 inhabitants ; according to two unofficial estimates for more recent period, the city has a population of 668, 518 or 491, 000 inhabitants.

In recent years, Taiwan has successfully diversified its trade markets, cutting its share of exports to the United States from 49 % in 1984 to 20 % in 2002.

Although the industrial sector has traditionally been Taiwan's largest energy consumer, its share has dropped in recent years from 62 % in 1986 to 58 % in 2002.

In recent years the Royal Thai Armed Forces has begun increasing its role on the international stage by providing Peacekeeping forces to the United Nations ( UN ), in the International Force for East Timor ( INTERFET ), from 1999 to 2002.

However, the most common image of terrorism is that it is carried out by small and secretive cells, highly motivated to serve a particular cause and many of the most deadly operations in recent times, such as the September 11 attacks, the London underground bombing, and the 2002 Bali bombing were planned and carried out by a close clique, composed of close friends, family members and other strong social networks.

According to the most recent census of 2002, the total population of Zanzibar was 984, 625 – with an annual growth rate of 3. 1 percent.

Although the codes are ostensibly updated on a three-year cycle, the most recent and currently used version of the EPCOT Building Codes is the 2002 version.

Adoption in the United States still occurs at nearly three times those of its peers although the number of children awaiting adoption has held steady in recent years, hovering between 133, 000 to 129, 000 during the period 2002 to 2006.

These specific election donations are known as ‘ hard money .’ The Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act ( BCRA ) of 2002, also known as " McCain-Feingold ", after its sponsors, is the most recent major federal law on campaign finance, which revised some of the legal limits on expenditures set in 1974, and prohibited unregulated contributions ( commonly referred to as " soft money ") to national political parties.

* Pearlasia Gamboa, president of the micronation of Melchizedek, hundreds of aliases ; in 2002, one of Gamboa's banking and investor fraud schemes was described by the Italian newspaper La Republica as " one of the most diabolical international scams ever devised in recent years ", and in 2000, the Asia Times described Gamboa's operations as " an astonishing series of worldwide swindles ".

The most recent case of such an occurrence was the controversial passing of an immigration law in the Bundesrat in 2002, when the delegates of Brandenburg failed to come up with the unanimous vote that the Basic Law requires of each Land's delegation in the Bundesrat.

The most recent championships were held in Faro ( 2000 ), Monaco ( 2001 ), Grenoble ( 2002, 2004 and 2006 ), Geneva ( 2003 ), Brussels ( 2005 ), and Pattaya / Thailand ( 2007 ).

Growth has been steady in recent years 2002 – 2006 varying between 1 and 3. 3 %.

The most recent example of a business cycle was the global boom starting in approximately 2002 that ended with the Late-2000s recession.

In recent years, SCCA has expanded and re-organized some of the higher-speed events under the " Time Trials " banner.

* Individuals with expressive aphasia ( also called Broca's aphasia ) were once thought to have frontal lobe damage, though more recent work by Dr. Nina Dronkers using imaging and ' lesion analysis ' has revealed that patients with Expressive aphasia have lesions to the medial insular cortex.

A more recent development is the Atari 7800 expansion module developed by Legacy Engineering with a high scores save feature ( with compatible games ), additional RAM capabilities, as well as vastly improved sound capabilities using the POKEY and YM2151 sound chips.

Bruce Schneier notes that while Blowfish is still in use, he recommends using the more recent Twofish algorithm instead.

In recent years a large number of writers and historians have come to the conclusion it was not a new form of warfare invented by the German military, but an old method of pursuing decisive battles using new technology.

However, many of these traditionalists will accept using pinyin for more recent Chinese borrowings.

She admitted to being a recovering alcoholic and drug addict, but claimed that she had been sober for more than ten years by that point, and was not using any drugs, with the exception of prescribed painkillers due to discomfort and pain from the recent extraction of her wisdom teeth.

In recent years, attempts have been made to introduce fencing to a wider and younger audience, by using foam and plastic swords, which require much less protective equipment.

Typically masks using 40mm connections are more recent design.

Many advocate using the more recent and nuanced alternate terms when describing criminals and others who negatively take advantage of security flaws in software and hardware.

He decided to create a comic strip of his own, which would adopt the recent American innovation of using speech balloons to depict the characters ' spoken words and inspired by established French comics author Alain St. Ogan.

Between 2005 – 09 English Heritage attempted to restore Kenilworth's garden more closely to its Elizabethan form, using as a basis the description in the Langham letter and details from recent archaeological investigations.

Some recent work has been done in analysis using concepts from non-standard analysis, particularly in investigating limiting processes of statistics and mathematical physics.

For example geochemical signatures from rocks may help to discover when life first arose on Earth, and analyses of carbon isotope ratios may help to identify climate changes and even to explain major transitions such as the Permian – Triassic extinction event .< ref name =" Twitchett "> A relatively recent discipline, molecular phylogenetics, often helps by using comparisons of different modern organisms ' DNA and RNA to re-construct evolutionary " family trees "; it has also been used to estimate the dates of important evolutionary developments, although this approach is controversial because of doubts about the reliability of the " molecular clock ".

A recent analysis of survey data using principal component analysis was carried out in 2003 in the UK ; the results of this study yielded the same two dimensions as found by Eysenck's original research: the familiar " left-right " R-dimension that mixes economic issues and social issues, and a second T-dimension that is described as " pragmatism vs idealism.

Commonly in recent times, and especially in journalistic jargon, media are however defined as an alleged fourth power, and a difference from the others is often outlined in the fact that the power to ( eventually ) influence the public opinion using media is not much controlled, because media are so " ethereal ", and it would be hard to weight them.

Separately, recent work using computational phylogenetic methods claims to show that punctuational bursts play an important factor when languages split from one another, accounting for anywhere from 10 to 33 % of the total divergence in vocabulary.

In recent times the relationship between psychology and history has been explored using the study of moral disengagement.

The most recent clone ( better described as a replica rather than clone ) is an open source do-it-yourself hardware solution called the x0xb0x, using most of the original components in the synthesizer section for a very authentic sound.

This is followed by yet another unsuccessful attempt to break apart the alliance which involves using telecaptured Vulcan cruisers against Proxima Centauri ( a recent coalition member ).

A recent in-vitro study conducted the NY College of Dental Sciences using strontium on osteoblasts showed marked improvement on bone-building osteoblasts.

The cumulative cooling and warming that result from the tilt of the planet become most pronounced after the solstices, leading to the more recent custom of using them to mark the beginning of summer and winter in most countries of Central and Northern Europe, as well as in Canada, the USA and New Zealand.

A more recent study, using genetic markers from the nuclear genome, shows that limnetic forms in different lakes are more closely related to each other ( and to marine lineages ) than to benthic forms in the same lake.

The appropriateness of this more recent appellation is seen in the oldest literature preserved by these schools where the art is said to be a study of yin ( receptive ) and yang ( active ) principles, using terminology found in the Chinese classics, especially the I Ching and the Tao Te Ching.

In recent years, some consumer indoor stoves using natural gas or propane have begun offering higher-BTU burners.