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 decrease in the popularity of radio as more listeners starting using MP3 players in their cars to customize driving music.

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.

This display alludes to the theme of the universality of the Catholic Church by highlighting that although these shrines are particular to a certain country or culture, the Cult of the Virgin Mary bridges over all these barriers, bringing together the different ethnic groups living in Sauganash area of Forest Glen. The organ was also replaced in the early 2000s to replace an aging organ from the 1930s.

Alama continued his success into the 2000s with the release of his chart-topping albums Saharony El Leil ( 2001 ), Tab Leh ( 2003 ), El Hob El Kebeer ( 2004 ) and Baa ' sha ' ak ( 2008 ), the latter which earned the artist the Platinum certification from Virgin Megastores for its record sales.

In early 2000s, the newspaper, officially owned by a Virgin Islands financial group, was sold to Styria Medien AG, an Austria-based media group.

Following vocalist Alex Ebert's previous band The Lucky 13's breakup, Ima Robot formed in the late 1990s and, in the early 2000s, after signing with Virgin Records, became successful.

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

As a bottled beer produced by the Foster's Group ( formerly the Carlton United Beverages group ( CUB )) it has rarely been promoted in Australia since the early 2000s.

In the 1990s and 2000s, La Vie-Le Monde Group expanded under editor Jean-Marie Colombani with a number of acquisitions.

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.

During the 1990s, replaced all its aircraft with Dash 8 ; in the 2000s it was bought by the SAS Group and took over SAS Commuter's operations in Northern Norway.

From the beginning of the 2000s, Goldratt created the self-funded Goldratt Group and launched the Viable Vision initiative.

Dafoe, who would continue with the Wooster Group into the 2000s, began his film career in 1981, when he was cast in Heaven's Gate only to see his role removed from the film during editing.

In the 2000s ( decade ), East Line Group began to heavily invest in reconstruction and modernization of the outdated airport facilities.

Spiegelman later came to accept the term, and, with Drawn and Quarterly publisher Chris Oliveros, successfully lobbied the Book Industry Study Group in the early 2000s to include " graphic novel " as a standardized category in bookstores.

The site was originally a cinema complex operated by the Hoyts Group from the mid 1980s until the early 2000s, when it closed down in the face of stiff competition.

Traditionally known for its focus on professional courses, in the 2000s Bournemouth University invested in research to underpin its curriculum and maximise its contribution to the regional and national economies ; the University already has a variety of specialist research groups including The Market Research Group.

Afterward, Browner became a founding member of the Albright Group and Albright Capital Management during the 2000s ( decade ).

In the early 2000s ASBOs had been issued in the Little London area to counter drug dealing and anti-social behaviour The leader of the Labour Party Group on Leeds Council thought that these orders had been achieving a reduction in crime in the area.

The Wave came under management of UTV Radio in 2005, when the company acquired The Wireless Group, the owner of the station in the early 2000s.

Creative Group purchased Fangoria ( and its parent publication Starlog ) in the early 2000s, hoping to branch out the brand identity of the magazine to radio, television, and comics.

After their purchase by Creative Group in the early 2000s, they developed Fangoria Entertainment.

* The Calas — Located towards the south-east of the village heading out towards Paisley, the area is named locally as ' The Calas ' as the houses built in this area in the early 2000s were built by the Cala Group.

In the early 2000s, the Group completed a 10-year restructuring process through which each business became a stand-alone company with a CEO / COO from outside the Godrej family.

In the 1990s he was Chairman of Food from Britain, Director General of the Conservative Party and a Ministerial Advisor to the Cabinet Office and in the 2000s was Chairman of the Royal Society of Arts and of Teachers TV, President of the Chartered Management Institute, Deputy Chairman of the American Management Association, a Director of Standard Bank Group of South Africa, which is Africa's largest bank and is quoted on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange, and Master of the Worshipful Company of Marketors.

The company also entered into a collaboration ( early 2000s ) with Lyudinovsky Locomotive Plant ( Russia ) ( Людиновский тепловозостроительный завод ), ( now part of Sinara Group ) creating a single-body eight axle 3MW ( Bo ' Bo ')'( Bo ' Bo ')' diesel locomotive ТЭРА1, powered by a EMD 710 16-cylinder engine.

Don Ienner ( ) was the Chairman of the Sony Music Label Group during first half of the decade of the 2000s.

The first action was to settle the lawsuit with Tool, who would go on to become another Zomba success throughout the 2000s, representing the broad stylistic reach of artists under the Zomba Group.

A trial algae photobioreactor plant was established at Hazelwood in the early 2000s by Energetix, a division of the Victor Smorgon Group.

The variable-quality cement which had been used in the construction of the Causeway bridges meant that by the early 2000s, they had suffered significant damage, leading to a repair contract being awarded to Kulin Group in 2004.