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.

Australia reached a cricketing peak in the 1990s and early 2000s, coupled with a general decline in England's fortunes.

England began to recover in the early 2000s and were undefeated in Test matches through the 2004 calendar year.

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

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.

In the early 2000s the MC fronted band Relax got much airplay, as did de Spookrijders.

After showing its first growth since the communist era in 2000, Bulgaria ’ s industrial sector has grown slowly but steadily in the early 2000s ( decade ).

In the early 2000s ( decade ), the industry ’ s plan for survival has included upgrading products to satisfy Western markets and doing cooperative manufacturing with Russian companies.

In the early 2000s ( decade ), shipbuilding has prospered at the major Varna and Ruse yards because of foreign ownership ( Ruse ) and privatization ( Varna ).

In the early 2000s, Sofia Airport received substantial renovation, with aid from a Kuwaiti-led consortium, in anticipation of increased air connections with Europe.

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.

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.

By the early 2000s, these competitions were named Comic Idol ( in reference to Pop Idol.

By the early 2000s ( decade ), however, the university quietly reexamined its position on accreditation as degree mills proliferated and various government bureaucracies, such as law enforcement agencies, began excluding BJU graduates on the grounds that the university did not appear on appropriate federal lists.

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.

By the early 2000s, CPU designers were thwarted from achieving higher performance from ILP techniques due to the growing disparity between CPU operating frequencies and main memory operating frequencies as well as escalating CPU power dissipation owing to more esoteric ILP techniques.

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.

In the early 2000s, these organocatalysts were considered " new generation " and are competitive to traditional metal (- ion )- containing catalysts.

By the early 2000s, the CD largely replaced the audio cassette player as standard equipment in new automobiles, with 2010 being the final model year for any car in the US to have a factory-equipped cassette player.

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

Most episodes in the 1960s, 70s, and 80s rated with over 20 million viewers and during the 1990s and early 2000s 15 – 20 million per episode would be typical Like most terrestrial television in the UK, a dramatic decline in viewership has taken place and the show currently posts figures of between 8 and 14 million per episode.

In the early 2000s Beck released what is considered to be his Magnum opus, his eighth studio album Sea Change.

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.

A period of large trade deficits and improper real estate investment hit Bulgaria hard during the late-2000s recession, resulting in a 5. 5 % GDP decline in that period, a rise in unemployment, and spending at least five quarters in its worst recession since the early 1980s.

By the early 20th century, Bulgaria, Greece, Montenegro and Serbia had achieved independence from the Ottoman Empire, but large parts of their ethnic populations remained under Ottoman rule.

In the late 19th and early 20th century, Bulgaria and Greece contended for Ottoman Macedonia and Thrace.

* Constantine II of Bulgaria ( early 1370s – 1422 ), last emperor of Bulgaria 1396 – 1422.

The population transfers with Bulgaria and Turkey that took place in the early 20th century, added in total some two million Greeks from to the demography of the Greek Kingdom.

The city of Skopje is bordered by Šar Mountains to the west, by the Jakupica chain to the south, and by hills to the east that form the early Osogovo Mountains, which are situated on the border between Macedonia and Bulgaria.

Apart from contributing to NATO, the Turkish Navy also contributes to the Black Sea Naval Co-operation Task Group, which was created in early 2001 by Turkey, Bulgaria, Georgia, Romania, Russia and Ukraine for search and rescue and other humanitarian operations in the Black Sea.

By the late 9th and early 10th centuries, Bulgaria extended to Epirus and Thessaly in the south, Bosnia in the west and controlled all of present-day Romania and eastern Hungary to the north.

Old Church Slavonic is evidenced by a relatively small body of manuscripts, most of which were written in Bulgaria during the late 10th and the early 11th centuries.

James Bissett, Canadian Ambassador to Yugoslavia, Bulgaria and Albania, wrote in 1990 that media reports indicate that " as early as 1998, the Central Intelligence Agency assisted by the British Special Air Service were arming and training Kosovo Liberation Army members in Albania to foment armed rebellion in Kosovo.

In the early days of World War II, Bulgaria was neutral, but powerful groups in the country swayed its politics toward Germany ( whom they had also allied with in World War I ), which had gained initial sympathies by forcing Romania to cede southern Dobrudja back to Bulgaria.

In early 1943, Nazi officials requested that Bulgaria send its Jewish population to German occupied Poland.

Harald and the Varangians were thereafter called to action in Bulgaria, were they arrived not before early 1041.

In the early 1960s, these resorts began attracting rich tourists from the West, who usually summered at Cannes or Nice, but the egalitarian society of Bulgaria at the time repulsed elitarian guests.

This last happened in 2005 ( Iurie Boreico ), 1995 ( Nikolay Nikolov, Bulgaria ), and 1988 ( Emanouil Atanassov, Bulgaria ), but was more frequent up to the early 1980s.

In early days, all Christians were enrolled indiscriminately ; later, those from Albania, Greece, Bosnia, Serbia and Bulgaria were preferred.

Common Vetch has also been part of the human diet, as attested by carbonised remains found at early Neolithic sites in Syria, Turkey, Bulgaria, Hungary and Slovakia.

Compare also the rendition of the name of early Bulgarian ruler Pagan as ( Kampaganos ), likely resulting from a misinterpretation of " Kan Pagan ", in Patriarch Nicephorus's so-called Breviarium In general, however, the inscriptions as well as other sources designate the supreme ruler of Danube Bulgaria with titles that exist in the language in which they are written – archontеs, meaning ' commander or magistrate ' in Greek, and knyaze, meaning ' duke ' or ' prince ' in Slavic.

What appears to be an ancestral form, Geronticus balcanicus, was found in the late Pliocene of Bulgaria, further illustrating the early widespread presence of this genus in Europe, and suggesting that Geronticus eremita may have originated in southeastern Europe or the Middle East.

Bulgaria has an long-standing musical traddition which music historians can trace back to the early Middle ages.