* Much of the material in this article comes from the CIA World Factbook 2000 and the 2003 U. S. Department of State website.

* Much of the material in these articles comes from the CIA World Factbook 2000 and the 2003 U. S. Department of State website.

In mid-November 2000, the 9 / 11 Commission believes that Nami, Wail and Waleed al-Shehri, all of whom had obtained their U. S. visas in late October, traveled in a group from Saudi Arabia to Beirut and then onward to Iran where they could travel through to Afghanistan without getting their passports stamped.

Clinton's November 2000 visit to Vietnam was the first by a U. S. President since the end of the Vietnam War.

On October 10, 2000, Clinton signed into law the U. S .– China Relations Act of 2000, which granted permanent normal trade relations ( PNTR ) trade status to People's Republic of China.

His folksy manner led him to be nicknamed " Bubba ", especially in the Southern U. S. Since 2000, he has frequently been referred to as " The Big Dog " or " Big Dog.

In 2000, after the U. S. version of the CBS program " Big Brother " premiered, the Estate of George Orwell sued CBS and its production company " Orwell Productions, Inc ." in federal court in Chicago for copyright and trademark infringement.

* Sinnott, Roger W. and Perryman, Michael A. C. ( 1997 ) Millennium Star Atlas, Epoch 2000. 0, Sky Publishing Corporation, Cambridge, Massachusetts, U. S. A., and European Space Agency ( ESA ), ESTEC, Noordwijk, The Netherlands.

( 1987 ) Uranometria 2000. 0, Willmann-Bell, Inc., Richmond, Virginia, U. S. A., 3 volumes, hardcover.

Columbia U. Press, 2000.

In 2000, Venter and Francis Collins of the National Institutes of Health and U. S. Public Genome Project jointly made the announcement of the mapping of the human genome, a full three years ahead of the expected end of the Public Genome Program.

Ownership of the Amiga line passed through a few companies, from Escom of Germany in 1995, and then to U. S. PC clone maker Gateway in 1997, before an exclusive lifetime license was made to Amiga, Inc., a Washington company founded by former Gateway employees Bill McEwen and Fleecy Moss in 2000.

But follow-up studies have ( depending on who was summarizing the results ) failed to replicate the phenomenon or produced mixed results ( Bem & others, 2001 ; Milton & Wiseman, 2002 ; Storm, 2000, 2003 ). One skeptic, magician James Randi, has a longstanding offer — now U. S. $ 1 million —“ to anyone who proves a genuine psychic power under proper observing conditions ” ( Randi, 1999 ).

* 2000 Census of Population and Housing for Delaware, U. S. Census Bureau

* 2000 – U. S. retail giant Montgomery Ward announces it is going out of business after 128 years.

It was planned by Wiz and released by Bandai on June 26, 1997 Digimon: The Movie, released in the U. S. and Canada territory by Fox Kids through 20th Century Fox on October 6, 2000, consists of the union of the first three Japanese movies.

In 2000, Walt Disney, Texas Instruments and Technicolor with the cooperation of several U. S. and international exhibitors, began to deploy prototype Digital Cinema systems in commercial theatres.

* 2000 – Al Gore concedes the U. S. presidential election to George W. Bush.

A study published in 2011 by the U. S. Department of Education found that " From 2000 to 2008, the percentage of undergraduates enrolled in at least one distance education class expanded from 8 percent to 20 percent, and the percentage enrolled in a distance education degree program increased from 2 percent to 4 percent.

Over 1999 and early 2000, the U. S. Federal Reserve increased interest rates six times, and the economy began to lose speed.

In the past much Internet traffic was routed through the U. S. and the UK, but this has changed ; for example, in 2000, 95 % of intra-German Internet communications was routed via the DE-CIX Internet exchange point in Frankfurt.

On January 9, 2000, the administration of President Jamil Mahuad announced its intention to adopt the U. S. dollar as the official currency of Ecuador to address the ongoing economic crisis.

Following a five-year break Enya released the album A Day Without Rain in 2000, featuring 37 minutes of new material ( 34 minutes on the U. S. version ).

The first single, " Only Time ", was used in the film Sweet November and received U. S. radio airplay in late 2000.

More than 2000 copies have been sent out to prospective clients.

Since accurate base maps are necessary for any planning program, the first step taken by the planning division to implement the long-range state plan has been to prepare two series of base maps -- one at a scale of 1 inch to a mile, and the second a series of 26 sheets at a scale of 1 inch to 2000 feet, covering the entire state.

For the year 2000 this means servicing ( A ) the protection requirements of a watershed producing at least 200 million acre-feet of water each year, ( B ) recreation and wildlife resources used each year by 635 million visitors, ( C ) a timber resource supporting an annual cut of 21 billion board feet, and ( D ) 60 million acres of rangelands.

About 80 percent of these long-range requirements should be met by the year 2000.

According to the Food And Drug Administration ( FDA ), `` Doctor '' Ghadiali, Dr. Albert Abrams and his clique, and Dr. Wilhelm Reich -- to name three notorious device quacks -- succeeded, respectively, in distributing 10,000, 5000, and 2000 fake health machines.

* Reeve, C. D. C. ( 2000 ).

The films below are listed with their production year, so the Oscar 2000 for best art direction went to a film from 1999.

Although Crete had contacts with Mari from 2000 BC, there is no evidence that the ecstatic prophetic art existed during the Minoan and Mycenean ages.

CABI Publishing, 2000.

The word can be traced from the Middle Egyptian ( c. 2000 BC ) word dj-b-t " mud sun-dried brick.

Rethinking the Angolan Crisis and the Portuguese Revolution, 1974 – 1976, Itinerario: European Journal of Overseas History, 26 / 2, 2000, pp. 22 – 44

New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2000.

Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 2000.

Abilene, TX: McWhiney Foundation Press, 2000.

In 2000, Coca-Cola bought 49 percent of Corporación José R. Lindley S. A., the creator and producer of Inca Kola, securing the worldwide distribution rights to Inca Kola as part of the agreement.

" The Clinton Factor: The Effects of Clinton's Personal Image in 2000 Presidential Primaries and in the General Election " White House Studies, Vol.

As an example according to the Italian laws it is mandatory for most public offices and buildings to hoist the European Flag alongside the Italian national Flag ( Law 22 / 2000 and Presidential Decree 121 / 2000 ).

Since then, gubernatorial elections have been offset by two years from U. S. Presidential elections ( e. g., Presidential elections were in 2000 and 2004, gubernatorial elections were in 1998 and 2002 ).

He ran for the party's Presidential nomination in 2000, finishing second to Ralph Nader.

In the 2000 Presidential Election on Taiwan, the Kuomintang produced a letter from her in which she purportedly supported the KMT candidate Lien Chan over independent candidate James Soong ( no relation ).

Halonen announced in 1999 that she wished to stand as a candidate for President in the 2000 Presidential elections.

In the 2000 Presidential election, Hagelin received 84, 000 votes.

History of American Presidential Elections, 1789 – 2000 ( various multivolume editions, latest is 2001 ).

Of the thirteen Presidential elections from 1956 to 2004, nine featured the incumbent President ; the other four ( 1960, 1968, 1988, 2000 ) all featured the incumbent Vice President.

* John McCain, United States Senator from Arizona and 2000 / 2008 Presidential Candidate

The core issue of this alliance is opposition to globalization and to free trade, and it was significant in the candidacy of Ralph Nader in the 2000 Presidential election, as Nader was endorsed by some labor organizations ( the overwhelming majority of labor unions and environmental organizations are loyal to the Democratic Party and endorsed Al Gore ).

He also campaigned for Al Gore in the 2000 Presidential election, John Kerry in the 2004 Presidential election, and Barack Obama in the 2008 Presidential election.

For example, in Premier Zhu Rongji's statements prior to the 2000 Presidential Election in Taiwan, he stated that as long as any ruling power in Taiwan accepts the One China Principle, they can negotiate and discuss anything freely.

It was one of the counties at the center of the 2000 U. S. Presidential election recount controversy.

" The 300 + member SDSU Marching Band, " The Pride of the Dakotas ", given the special name the Millennium Band in 2000 by the South Dakota State Legislature, has marched in the 1981 and 1997 Presidential Inaugural Parades in Washington, D. C .; A Capital Fourth in 2000 in Washington DC which was broadcast on PBS ; the 2003 and 2008 Tournament of Roses Parade in Pasadena, California making them the second collegiate band in the history of the Rose Bowl to be invited to march twice when their team was not competing ; and the Korean War Monument Dedication at the state's capital Pierre in 2004, in the company of two other college bands and 60-some high school bands from across the state.

On November 17, 2000, he was presented with the Presidential Citizens Medal by President Clinton.

Due to his prodigious literary output he was arguably the best known economist in the world during his lifetime and was one of a select few people to be awarded the Medal of Freedom, in 1946, and the Presidential Medal of Freedom, in 2000, for services to economics.

This is tied for the second-highest percentage of votes Bush received for any county in the US ( in both 2000 and 2004 ), and it is the highest percentage during the 2004 election, ( only Glasscock County, Texas, at 93. 1 percent, had a higher percentage in the 2000 Presidential election, though in both instances the percentages are skewed by the very small number of voters ).