Traditionally, all trains were operated by NSB, but the deregulation in the 2000s has led to the introduction of a number of new freight operators, including CargoNet, Hector Rail, Tågåkeriet and Ofotbanen.

Due to the financial crisis in the late 2000s, there was a drop in global demand for freight.

With the opening of Bellagio, Venetian, and Wynn resorts, the strip trended towards the luxurious high end segment through most of the 2000s, while some older resorts added major expansions and renovations, including some de-themeing of the earlier themed hotels.

During the 2000s, he joined Channel M, a local television station in Greater Manchester, presenting Hall's Heroes, a segment celebrating unsung heroes in the community on Channel M News.

The Indigo was superseded generally by the SGI Indigo2 ( and in the low-cost market segment by the SGI Indy ), although Indigos remain useful among some specialties even into the 2000s.

In the 2000s, a staple of the 11 p. m. Sunday newscast was Richard Hart's segment about technological developments, alternatively titled " Next Step and " Drive to Discover.

He also served as director for Fantasia 2000s The Carnival of the Animals segment.

Andre Kirk Agassi (; born April 29, 1970 in Las Vegas, Nevada ) is a retired American professional tennis player and former World No. 1, who was one of the game's most dominant players from the early 1990s to the mid 2000s.

In the 2000s, along with the construction sector, the services sector was the driving force behind Armenia's recent high economic growth rate.

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

Argonne National Laboratory was a leader in automated theorem proving from the 1960s to the 2000s

Some of the late 90s / early 2000s games were under development by other companies at one time, but rights to the game programs and all of the existing code was bought and finished by other developers.

It was the primary analog mobile phone system in North America ( and other locales ) through the 1980s and into the 2000s.

For several decades from the 1970s to early 2000s, the focus in designing high performance general purpose CPUs was largely on achieving high ILP through technologies such as pipelining, caches, superscalar execution, out-of-order execution, etc.

In the early 2000s, cheerleading was considered one of the most dangerous school activities.

Individuals are identified in the registry by means of a national identification number ( the so-called kennitala ), a number composed of the date of birth in the format and four additional digits, the third of which is a control digit, and the last of which indicates the century in which the person was born ( 9 for the 1900s and 0 for the 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.

A similar flux was seen among the operators of cable systems: franchises were granted to a host of different companies, but a process of consolidation saw the growth of large multiple system operators, until by the early 2000s, virtually the whole industry was in the hands of two companies, NTL and Telewest.

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.

In the early 2000s he was performing in the Flower Power Concert Series during Epcot's Flower and Garden Festival, a yearly gig he would continue until his death.

This was reversed in the 2000s, when Tarja Halonen and Erkki Tuomioja made Finland's official policy to resist other EU members ' plans for common defense.

The struggle against HIV has provided no cure, but improved antiretroviral treatments, and in the late 2000s ( decade ), male circumcision was proved to diminish infection risk.

At the end of the 2000s, one in five Italians was over 65 years old.

Overall, at the end of 2000s the foreign born population of Italy was from: Europe ( 54 %), Africa ( 22 %), Asia ( 16 %), the Americas ( 8 %) and Oceania ( 0. 06 %).

Nevertheless it should be noted that in a referendum in the 2000s the introduction of blanket speed limits was refused by the population, suggesting that a large number appreciate the freedom.

In the mid 2000s he was declared the patron saint of the Internet by the Vatican.

In the early 2000s, it was noticed that energy companies were increasingly coming under attack from hackers.

The liberal conservative LDP was in power from 1955 to 2009, except for a very short-lived coalition government formed from its opposition parties in 1993 ; the largest opposition party was the social liberal Democratic Party of Japan in the late 1990s and late 2000s.

By the late 2000s, ill-health was preventing him from driving in competition.

From 1997 to 2004, Michigan was listed as the only state to top the 10, 000 mark for the number of major new developments ; however, the effects of the late 2000s recession have slowed the state's economy.

In addition, mixed race ( European and African ) people amount to about 2 %, with a small ( 1 %) population of whites, mainly ethnically Portuguese ( as a former overseas territory of Portugal until 1975, the Portuguese make up currently the largest non-African population, with certainly more than 100, 000, a number that has been constantly increasing from the 2000s, because of Angola's growing demand for qualified human resources.

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.

Today, only nine remain, and this number may have decreased due to the Emsworth fishing and oyster trade dying down, or to the consolidation of the pub trade in the 1990s and 2000s.

The 2000s also saw an increase in the number of individual competitive awards won by French artists at the Cannes Festival, for direction ( Tony Gatlif, Exils, 2004 ), screenplay ( Agnès Jaoui and Jean-Pierre Bacri, Look at Me, 2004 ), female acting ( Isabelle Hupert, The Piano Teacher, 2001 ; Charlotte Gainsbourg, Antichrist, 2009 ) and male acting ( Jamel Debbouze, Samy Naceri, Roschdy Zem, Sami Bouajila and Bernard Blancan, Days of Glory, 2006 ).

However, the belief that the Saxons simply wiped or drove out all the native Britons from England has been widely discredited by a number of archaeologists since the 2000s, and the likelihood of that model being severely questioned.

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.

In the mid 2000s, a number of karaoke bars sprouted in Sydney with karaoke boxes frequented by Japanese students and tourists and a few locals, especially on Thursday nights and weekends.

A number of security measures were added to the exterior of New Scotland Yard during the 2000s, including concrete barriers in front of ground-level windows as a countermeasure against car bombing, a concrete wall around the entrance to the building, and a covered walkway from the street to the entrance into the building.

Although in the 2000s, there were a number of police crackdowns on organized crime gangs, such as the Cămătaru clan, organized crime generally has little impact on public life.

In the 1990s and 2000s, Asian actors Chow Yun-fat, Jet Li, and Jackie Chan appeared in a number of different types of action films, and US actors Wesley Snipes and Vin Diesel both had many roles.

Since 1986 the stagnation in employment has led to a new inversion of the trend, caused not so much by an increase in the number of people leaving but by a fall in the number coming to live in the region, but in the 2000s ( decade ) net immigration has been positive again.

In the early 2000s, the leftist Green Party won the largest number of votes to nearly carry a majority in regional and local representation.

In the 1990s and 2000s ( decade ) a small number of ex-NKVD agents living in the Baltic states were convicted of crimes against the local population.

' It draws upscale premium viewers who are attractive to upscale premium advertisers ,' Mr. Sussman said ..." The viewership has declined from the early years of its broadcast history ( for example, the number of viewers in 1974 was 20, 026, 000, in 1999 9, 155, 000 ) but has settled into between six and eight million viewers for most of the decade of the 2000s.

A number of studies on ancient DNA recovered from Scythian kurgan burials were published in the 2000s.

During the 1990s and early 2000s, a number of mothers of multiple apparent SIDS victims were convicted of homicide to various extents, on the basis of Meadow's opinion.

In the late 2000s and early 2010s, a number of internet communities started to use the term ' LGBTQ ,' the ' Q ' standing for ' queer ,' to represent forms of sexuality that fall outside of the original LGBT framework, in order to promote awareness and acceptance of these forms of sexuality.

A number of thrillers and horror films dubbed " outback gothic " have been created, including Wake in Fright, Walkabout, The Cars That Ate Paris and Picnic at Hanging Rock in the 1970s, Razorback and Shame in the 1980s and Japanese Story, The Proposition and the world-renowned Wolf Creek in the 2000s.

Kuro5hin's membership used to number in the tens of thousands, but its popularity has declined significantly from its peak in the early 2000s, and the present number of active users is much less.