In the 2000s, " Absalon " was adopted as the name for a class of Royal Danish Navy vessels, and the lead vessel of the class.

In the 2000s, CPC leaders debated changing the party's name to remove the " Communist " label, but ultimately decided against it, fearing the emergence of a splinter Communist party.

Voight gave critically acclaimed biographical performances during the 2000s ( decade ), appearing as sportscaster Howard Cosell in Ali ( 2001 ), as Nazi officer Jürgen Stroop in Uprising ( 2001 ), and as Pope John Paul II in the television miniseries of the same name ( 2005 ).

Using the rechristened WTBS ' superstation status to beam Braves games into nearly every home in North America, Turner made the Braves a household name even before their run of success in the 1990s and early 2000s.

In punk and hardcore punk, singers and band members often replace their real names with " tougher "- sounding stage names, such as Sid Vicious ( real name John Simon Ritchie ) of the late 1970s band Sex Pistols and " Rat " of the early 1980s band The Varukers and the 2000s re-formation of Discharge.

The name was almost forgotten in 1990s and in 2000s it was used like a trim / model level on FIAT cars, like the FIAT Stilo Abarth.

Dunedin reflected the Gaelic origins of its name by playing host to a short lived American shinty club, Dunedin Camanachd, in the mid 2000s.

It was reported that, as of the early 2000s ( decade ), former Blue Cheer guitarist Randy Holden, assisted by Randy Pratt of The Lizards band, had trademarked the Blue Cheer band name.

IBM PC DOS ( full name: The IBM Personal Computer Disk Operating System ) is a DOS system for the IBM Personal Computer and compatibles, manufactured and sold by IBM from the 1980s to the 2000s.

Of Italian Peruvian descent, she has hosted other talk shows under her name, including Laura en América back in the 1990s to early 2000s.

The UK stores continued operating ( albeit under separate ownership since 1982 ) after the US operation ceased under the Woolworth name and by the 2000s traded as Woolworths Group.

In the late 1990s or early 2000s, for reasons unknown ( but possibly because of the difficulty students and correspondents had in spelling the College's name correctly ), the College dropped the possessive apostrophe from its founder's name in its official title, and is now known as Peter Symonds College.

Similarly, it would be valid to celebrate the year 2000 as a cultural event in its own right, and name the period 2000 to 2999 as " the 2000s ".

( In addition, at the time of the name change to Citicorp, National City of Ohio was mostly a Cleveland-area bank and had not gone on its acquisition spree that it would later go on in the 1990s and 2000s.

Many of action writer Tom Clancy's books from the 2000s ( decade ) bear the names of two people on their covers, with Clancy's name in larger print and the other author's name in smaller print.

In the early 2000s in North America, the Ford Motor Company made a strategic decision to brand all new or redesigned cars with names starting with " F ." This aligned with the previous tradition of naming all sport utility vehicles since the Ford Explorer with the letter " E ." The Toronto Star quoted an analyst who warned that changing the name of the well known Windstar to the Freestar would cause confusion and discard brand equity built up, while a marketing manager believed that a name change would highlight the new redesign.

In the 2000s ( decade ), Dr. Martens were sold exclusively under the AirWair name, and came in dozens of different styles, including conventional black shoes, sandals and steel-toed boots.

In the early 2000s, former governor of Nagano Prefecture, Yasuo Tanaka ( president of New Party Nippon ), proposed the renaming of his prefecture to " Shinshū " ( 信州, a name derived from Shinano Province ) because it is still widely used, as in Shinshū soba ( 信州そば ), Shinshū miso ( 信州味噌 ) and Shinshu University.

However, the cartoon is aired on MTV and sold on multi-region DVD video under the name Wobbl and Bob, after fears that Hasbro, makers of a 1970s and 2000s toy called Weebles and 2000s videos based on the toys, would sue.

Benji is the name of a fictional dog who has been the focus of several movies from 1974 through the 2000s.

However, the rebranding exercise appears to have been quietly abandoned in the early 2000s, as the unadorned Iceland name is now used more widely, although some stores still have the Iceland. co. uk name on display.

Notable former personnel include Holland Cooke ( Program Director ( 1982-1984 )), Peter Mokover ( Program Director ( 1980-1982 )), Bill Hess ( Program Director ( 2000s )), Mike Sands, David Jones, Joanie Edwardson ( Mornings ( 1988-2006 )), Chuck Hinman ( News Director ), Jim Halfyard, Ken Cole, Steve York, Jed Barton, Amy Navarro, Jack Casey, Jay Stevens, Scott Mallory, Bruce Gammon, Jack Lawrence, Donna Mac, Harmon Dash, Bill O ' Brien, Stacy Shannon, Doug O ' Brien, Gary Trust, Michael Nordé, Chris Eagan, Vinnie McCoy, Patti Costa, Bob Hollands, John Morgan, Paul Perry, Steve Peck, Jim Raposa, Wally Bruckner, Norm Thibeault, Lisa Hanks, Liz Ryan, Will Gilbert, and Bill Smith.

In the late 1990s and early 2000s, Cancún had been favored at the spring break destination of choice.

In the mid 2000s Cilvaringz, Ali B and Raymzter have commercially been successful and Lange Frans & Baas B have had multiple # 1 hits.

In the early 2000s, Bulgaria had some 37, 300 kilometers of roads, all but 3, 000 of which were paved but nearly half of which ( 18, 000 kilometers ) fell into the lowest international rating for paved roads.

In the United Kingdom, bass music, or UK Bass, as it is often known there, has had major mainstream success since the late 2000s and early 2010s, with artists such as Example, Chase & Status, Skream, Benga and Wretch 32.

" By the mid 2000s, bikinis had become a $ 811 million business annually, according to the NPD Group, a consumer and retail information company.

In the early 2000s, BBC Two also started simulcasting the channel, although the weekend morning show Weekend 24 had been simulcast on the channel in the early days.

She later had a brief solo music career in the early 2000s after the dissolution of Hole, releasing America's Sweetheart ( 2004 ), and went through several rehab sentences and run-ins with the law until achieving sobriety.

Chelsea had their first major success in 1955, when they won the league championship, and won various cup competitions during the 1960s, 1970s, 1990s and 2000s.

Services to Tasmania and the Northern Territory took longer to start, not until the mid 2000s when the digital satellite pay television service had picked up momentum and was beginning to be used for metropolitan installs and not just rural installs.

The roof's worn paint had become so unsightly in the early 2000s that it was repainted in the summer of 2006 by the City of Irving.

During the late 1990s and early 2000s, a number of games were created using DHTML, but differences between browsers made this difficult: many techniques had to be implemented in code to enable the games to work on multiple platforms.

In 2000s, the Belgium-based Aborted " had grown into the role of key contributors to the death-grind genres ".

Gaddafi stopped endorsing terrorist attacks on western countries, and while his behaviour remained extremely erratic, occasionally provoking international incidents such as the HIV trial in Libya and the Swiss-Libyan diplomatic crisis, Gaddafi managed to improve his image in the west and by the early 2000s had mostly benign relations with western democracies.

In the early 2000s, there had been speculation that the United Nations might signal a takeover of ICANN, followed by a negative reaction from the US government and worries about a division of the Internet the World Summit on the Information Society in Tunisia in November 2005 agreed not to get involved in the day-to-day and technical operations of ICANN.

In the early 2000s, Kyrgyzstan used international investment support to restructure its telecommunications system, which had 7. 7 telephone lines per 100 inhabitants in 2002 and 1, 100, 000 cellular phones in use in 2007.

The Detroit Tigers swept the Royals in the 1984 playoff season, and in the early 2000s, Detroit and Kansas City had a number of bench clearing brawls.

Search engines began dropping support for metadata provided by the element in 1998, and by the early 2000s, most search engines had veered completely away from reliance on elements.

During the 2000s, Kim Jong Il made no serious effort to revive the Stalinist economic system his father had spent years building.

In the late 2000s, reports indicated that the rate of drunk driving by under 20s in Auckland had risen 77 % in three years, with similar increases in the rest of the country.

By contrast, the Indianapolis Colts — among the most successful franchises in any sport during the 2000s with quarterback Peyton Manning — had a 2-14 record in 2011 because of injuries that prevented Manning from playing.

Limbaugh had publicized personal difficulties in the 2000s.

Stockholm previously had a large tram network, but this was discontinued in favour of bus and metro ; a revival of the tram network was seen in the construction of Tvärbanan in the late 1990s and early 2000s.

Starting from the 2000s it had become increasingly common for long-term regular cast members to be dropped from contract status to recurring status, a part of contract negotiations largely restricted to U. S. soap operas.

Until the early 2000s when RTÉ had the series produced 52 weeks of the year with four episodes a week.

South Korea had one of the world's fastest growing economies from the early 1960s to the late 1990s, and South Korea is still one of the fastest growing developed countries in the 2000s, along with Hong Kong, Singapore, and Taiwan, the other three members of Asian Tigers.