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For the year 2000 this means servicing ( A ) the protection requirements of a watershed producing at least 200 million acre-feet of water each year, ( B ) recreation and wildlife resources used each year by 635 million visitors, ( C ) a timber resource supporting an annual cut of 21 billion board feet, and ( D ) 60 million acres of rangelands.
About 80 percent of these long-range requirements should be met by the year 2000.
The films below are listed with their production year, so the Oscar 2000 for best art direction went to a film from 1999.
Lawson repeatedly predicted the worldwide adoption of Lawsonian principles by the year 2000.
The International Charlemagne Prize of Aachen was awarded in the year 2000 to the President of the United States, Bill Clinton, for his special personal contribution to cooperation with the states of Europe, for the preservation of peace, freedom, democracy and human rights in Europe, and for his support of the enlargement of the European Union.
The following year the Amiga product line was expanded with the introduction of two new models: the Amiga 2000 for high-end graphics and business use, and the Amiga 500 for home use.
" Noting that " It depends on the data we use, but roughly speaking, per capita income in developing countries grew at 3 % per year between 1960 and 1980, but has grown only at about 1. 5 % between 1980 and 2000.
Map showing the historical retreat and expansion of Basque within the context of its linguistic neighbors between the year 1000 and 2000
Blackadder: Back & Forth was originally shown in the Millennium Dome in 2000, followed by a screening on Sky One in the same year ( and later on BBC1 ).
The same team behind the BBC's digital text service also launched the early incarnations of the BBC's Interactive Wimbledon and Interactive Open Golf services in 2000, which were awarded an Interactive BAFTA that year.
In 2000, the Association of Zoos and Aquariums ( AZA ) upgraded the bongo to a Species Survival Plan ( SSP ) Participant and in 2006 named the Bongo Restoration to Mount Kenya Project to its list of the Top Ten Wildlife Conservation Success Stories of the year.
From the year 2000 onward, Chile completely overhauled its criminal justice system ; a new, US-style adversarial system has been gradually implemented throughout the country with the final stage of implementation in the Santiago metropolitan region completed on June 9, 2001
In the year 2000, public sector employment was 76 % and private sector employment was 23 % compared to the 1981 ratio of 91 % to 8 %.
Over decades, the size of daily strips became smaller and smaller, until by the year 2000, four standard daily strips could fit in an area once occupied by a single daily strip.
In response, by the year 2000, most of the major US restrictions on the use of strong encryption were relaxed.
However, in order to regard 2000 as the first year of the 21st century according to the astronomical year numbering, the astronomical year 0 has to correspond to the Gregorian year 1 BC.
On 8 December 2000, the show celebrated its fortieth year by broadcasting a live, hour-long episode.
This is now widely recognized as a bad idea, because of the year 2000 problem.
At the primary school level Corsican is taught up to a fixed number of hours per week ( three in the year 2000 ) and is a voluntary subject at the secondary school level, but is required at the University of Corsica.
Mark Anderson, president of Strategic News Service, a research firm based in Friday Harbor, Wash. was quoted as saying The kind of goals he had sounded good to shareholders -- like being a $ 50 billion company by the year 2000, or to beat I. B. M.

year and saw
Weeks ago he saw a business upturn in the second quarter of this year while his colleagues in the Cabinet were shaking their heads in disagreement.
A direct attack on the Danish lines failed but, later in the year, Alfred saw a means of obstructing the river so as to prevent the egress of the Danish ships.
The original Yankee Stadium opened in 1923 on 161st Street and River Avenue, a year that saw the Yankeees bring home their first of 27 World Series Championships.
A tumultuous year at the Bauhaus, 1922 also saw the move of Dutch painter Theo van Doesburg to Weimar to promote De Stijl (" The Style "), and a visit to the Bauhaus by Russian Constructivist artist and architect El Lissitzky.
On graduation he joined the 1st Battalion, The Royal Warwickshire Regiment in September 1908 as a second lieutenant, and first saw service later that year in India.
On completion of his tour of duty in India, Montgomery returned to Britain in June 1937 where he became commanding officer of the 9th Infantry Brigade with the temporary rank of brigadier, but that year saw great tragedy when his wife was bitten by an insect while on holiday in Burnham-on-Sea.
1880 saw the Great North Western Telegraph Company established to connect Ontario and Manitoba but within a year it was taken over by Western Union, leading briefly to that company's control of almost all telegraphy in Canada.
The year after saw the birth in Sudan of the National Liberation Front of Chad ( FROLINAT ), created to militarily oust Tombalbaye and the Southern dominance.
The period from 1946 to 1951 saw continuous full employment and steadily rising living standards, which increased by about 10 % each year.
" The year 1979 saw the Commodores score another Top Five ballad hit, " Sail On ", before reaching the top of the charts once again with another ballad, " Still ".
Overall, more than two million tourists visited Crete last year, and this increase in tourism is reflected on the number of hotel beds, rising by 53 % in the period between 1986 and 1991, when the rest of Greece saw increases of only 25 %.
Meanwhile, the year 1919 saw the start of the tenure of Bill Veeck, Sr. as team president.
The year also saw the programme's first two-hander, between Curly and Raquel Watts.
The same year saw the release of " Kung Fu Fighting ", performed by Carl Douglas and produced by Biddu, which reached # 1 in both the U. K. and U. S., and became the best-selling single of the year and one of the best-selling singles of all time with eleven million records sold worldwide, helping to popularize disco music to a great extent.
Visiting cities in Europe and North America between September 1995 and February the following year, the tour saw the return of Gabrels as Bowie's guitarist.
2002 saw the release of Heathen, and, during the second half of the year, the Heathen Tour.
The same year, the film of Leslie Thomas's 1966 comic novel The Virgin Soldiers saw Bowie make a brief appearance as an extra.
1167 saw the marriage of Eleanor's third daughter, Matilda, to Henry the Lion of Saxony ; Eleanor remained in England with her daughter for the year prior to Matilda's departure to Normandy in September.
The year 1954 saw two of Japan's most influential films released.
The year 2005 saw the emergence of The British Urban Film Festival, a timely addition to the film festival calendar which recognised the influence of Kidulthood on UK audiences and which consequently began to showcase a growing profile of films in a genre which previously was not otherwise regularly seen in the capital ’ s cinemas.
The year 410 also saw Honorius reply to a British plea for assistance against local barbarian incursions, called the ' Rescript of Honorius '.
The first year of the Revolution saw members of the Third Estate proclaiming the Tennis Court Oath in June, the assault on the Bastille in July, the passage of the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen in August, and an epic march on Versailles that forced the royal court back to Paris in October.
Promotion to the top tier of English football saw the club perform poorly, finishing seventeenth in their first year and eighteenth in their second.
The year 2005 saw the birth of an updated franchise law, " Measures for the Administration of Commercial Franchise ".

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