The 2000s ( decade ) saw a steady pace of growth and budget surpluses, but shaky inflation.

The 2000s ( decade ) saw a steady pace of growth and budget surpluses, but shaky inflation.

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 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 ).

The start of the 2000s saw a quiet period for the genre.

The early 2000s saw the creation of fledgling interim federal administrations.

As for employment, a longtime weakness of the Spanish economy, after having completed large improvements over the second half of the 1990s and during the 2000s ( decade ), which put a few regions on the brink of full employment, Spain suffered a severe setback from October 2008, when it saw its unemployment rate surging to 1996 levels.

During the late 1990s and early 2000s, Internet users saw:

Hip hop music also saw a decline in the mainstream during the late 2000s because of electronic music's rising popularity.

American television in the 2000s saw the sharp increase in popularity of reality television, with numerous competition shows such as American Idol, Dancing with the Stars, Survivor and The Apprentice attracting large audiences, as well as documentary or narrative style shows such as Big Brother, The Hills, The Real Housewives, Cheaters, among many others.

Although there were less in this decade than there were in the 1990s, the 2000s still saw many popular and notable sitcoms, including Will and Grace, Malcolm in the Middle, The King of Queens, Arrested Development, How I Met Your Mother, Scrubs, Curb Your Enthusiasm, The Office, Two and a Half Men, The Big Bang Theory, It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, and 30 Rock, among many others.

The 2000s saw a huge revival of 1980s fashion trends such as off the shoulder tops and neon colors came back in style.

Still, 2000s saw a rise of several independent TV networks like REN ( its coverage increased vastly allowing it to become federal channel ), Petersburg — Channel Five ( overall the same ), the relaunched 2 × 2 and others.

Between the 1990s and 2000s an increase in the use of dedicated hardware saw the advent of self-contained server appliances.

The 2000s saw continued rapid growth as the Hanford site hired hundreds of workers to help with the cleanup effort.

The 1990s and first decade of the 2000s saw another generation of jug band revival, which might be termed post-modern jug band movement.

However these same financial institutions in the 2000s saw black communities as fertile ground for subprime mortgages.

Redevelopment initiatives saw Berlin turn into one of the largest construction sites in the world through the 1990s and early 2000s.

Contemporary Chinese art also saw record sales throughout the 2000s.

The 2000s saw supervised techniques reach a plateau in accuracy, and so attention has shifted to coarser-grained senses, domain adaptation, semi-supervised and unsupervised corpus-based systems, combinations of different methods, and the return of knowledge-based systems via graph-based methods.

By the late 1990s and early 2000s, and the success of Christian-inspired acts like Skillet, Thousand Foot Krutch, Decyfer Down, Underoath, Kutless, Disciple and Relient K saw a shift toward mainstream exposure in the Christian rock scene.

In the 2000s the City Council saw a need to grow its tax and employment base after the unfortunate closings of AB & C Corporation, Dixie Narco and Kidde Fire ( Badger Powhatan ) and take advantage of the commercial development opportunities along the West Virginia Route 9 four-lane bypass north of Ranson.

The second half of the 2000s saw Harvard Law School's most dramatic academic changes since the implementation of the Langdell curriculum.

The 1990s and 2000s saw a resurgence in Diamond's popularity.

Environmental concerns related to radioactivity led to a sharp decrease in demand for nonnuclear uses of thorium in the 2000s.

Lower Makefield has experienced explosive growth over the past decades, however the housing crisis severely hit the township during the 2000s, and development slowed considerably, resulting in a slight population decrease.

In the 2000s, the number of vendors of both high-end medium format camera systems and digital backs began to decrease.

Following a decrease in revenue related to the late 2000s recession, the organization returned to its student-run founding with former student board members Sharlissa Moore and Kyle Gracey appointed President and Vice President, respectively.

The mid-to-late 2000s saw a decrease in popularity of throwbacks, with some hip-hop artists even shunning the raiments.

Meanwhile, with the advent and popularity of the MP3, sales of CDs began dropping in the 2000s.

The 1990s and 2000s are considered to be " Japanese Cinema's Second Golden Age ", due to the immense popularity of anime, both within Japan and overseas.

Freestyle experienced another resurgence of popularity in the late 2000s, as older, well-known freestyle artists, producers and record labels released new music, and old and new freestyle artists performed at Philadelphia-area bars and night clubs.

It gained some popularity in early 2000s due to its speed, flexibility in configuration and features.

In the 2000s, a house subgenre known as electro house achieved popularity.

The growing popularity of the somewhat similar activity of geocaching during the 2000s has increased interest in letterboxing as well.

In the 2000s, the musical film began to rise in popularity once more, with new works such as Moulin Rouge !, Across the Universe, and Enchanted ; film adaptations of stage shows, such as Chicago, 8 Mile, The Phantom of the Opera, Rent, Fame, Repo!

During the early 2000s, and with the increasing popularity of Web 2. 0, new ways to filter the software became available.

By the mid 2000s, the Mp3 player would overtake the CD player in popularity.

The popularity of mobile phones and text messaging surged in the 2000s in the Western world.

* The popularity of mobile phones and text messaging surged in the 2000s in the Western world.

CD players had a steady decline in popularity throughout the 2000s but stayed prevalent in most vehicles, while cassette tapes became virtually extinct.

In the late 2000s, motion controlled video games grew in popularity, from the PlayStation 2's EyeToy to Nintendo's successful Wii console.

Still one asset that ABC lacked in the early 2000s that most other networks had was popularity in reality television.

The popularity of British soul artists in the U. S., most notably Amy Winehouse, Adele, Estelle, Duffy, Joss Stone, and Leona Lewis led to talk of a third British Invasion or soul invasion in the 2000s.

The multi-award-winning four-piece group rapidly gained international popularity in the early 2000s and by the end of the decade they had become one of the most popular children's groups in the world.

With the increased popularity of punk rock in the mid-1990s and the 2000s, some hardcore bands signed with major record labels.

Texas Hold ' em's popularity surged in the 2000s due to exposure on television, the Internet and popular literature.

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.

The 2000s have seen a rise in the popularity of bands that have been labeled post-rock ; many of these bands have created instrumental rock songs.

In the 2000s, with the original line up back together, the band found new popularity after a successful greatest hits reunion tour in 1999.