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1998 When the leading members of the World Trade Organization (WTO) attempt... candidate ai_extracted 1 cit. no story When the leading members of the World Trade Organization (WTO) attempted in 1998 to push through in secret a Multilateral Agreement on Investment that would have protected further the rights of intern ●●

1998 Brin and Page present Google search paper ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Sergey Brin and Larry Page presented their foundational paper on Google's search engine at the World Wide Web Conference. ●●

1998 Iceland creates first national DNA database ai_extracted 1 cit. no story every person’s profile should be added to the databank. Former New York City mayor Rudolph Giuliani has urged that a DNA fingerprint be recorded for every American at birth.30 That day is coming. In 1998, Iceland created the world’s first national DNA database of its citizens. Almost all of its 275, ●●

1998 26. Report, 16 February 1998. “Privacy and Human rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story 26. Report, 16 February 1998. “Privacy and Human Rights 2002,” p. 83. Author’s interview with Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, 3 March 2003. 27. Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railroad, “BNSF and EEOC Settle Genetic Testing Case Under Americans with Disabilities Act,” press release of 8 May 2002. Burling ●●

1998 1 (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998); François Furet, Interpreting the French Revolution ( rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story 1 (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998); François Furet, Interpreting the French Revolution (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1981). ●●

1998 Schultz and Robert Maranto, The Politics of Civil Service Reform (New York: Peter Lang, 1998), p. rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Schultz and Robert Maranto, The Politics of Civil Service Reform (New York: Peter Lang, 1998), p. ●●

1998 Osaghae, Crippled Giant: Nigeria Since Independence (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1998), p rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Osaghae, Crippled Giant: Nigeria Since Independence (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1998), pp. ●●

1998 Nathan, Peking Politics, 1918–1923: Factionalism and the Failure of Constitutionalism (Ann Arbor, MI rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Nathan, Peking Politics, 1918–1923: Factionalism and the Failure of Constitutionalism (Ann Arbor, MI: Center for Chinese Studies, 1998), pp. ●●

1998 Page and Brin present the PageRank paper ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Page and Brin delivered 'The Anatomy of a Large-Scale Hypertextual Web Search Engine' at an Australian conference. ●●

1998 Bechtolsheim writes Google's first check ai_extracted 1 cit. no story After meeting Page and Brin, Bechtolsheim wrote a check that let them incorporate Google. ●●

1998 The Akiwumi Commission investigates the clashes 1 cit. President Moi appointed a judicial commission under Justice Akilano Akiwumi to inquire into the tribal clashes of the 1990s. Its report named politicians, administrators, and security officers who should be investigated for their roles and documented how the violence was organized rather than random. Almost none of those named were prosecuted, and the report's call for accountability was largely ignored. The commission and its findings are documented public record. politics / society ●

1998 U.S. launches cruise missile strikes against bin Laden ai_extracted 1 cit. On August 20, 1998, in retaliation for the embassy bombings, the U.S. fired seventy-five Tomahawk cruise missiles at bin Laden's Zawhar Kili camps in Afghanistan and thirteen more at the al Shifa plant in Sudan. At least twenty-one jihadists died, but bin Laden was not among them. ●●●

c. 1998 Killing the Vote documents election violence as a state tool 2 cit. Kenya Human Rights Commission's Killing the Vote did not treat the 1991-98 clashes as random tribal rage. It called them state-sponsored violence and a handy election tool: government surrogate agents killed, displaced and terrorized opposition communities in the Rift Valley, Western Kenya and Coast so the state could reassert dominance without admitting direct responsibility. politics / society / war ●●●●●

February 1999 Zero interest rate policy introduced ai_extracted 1 cit. In February 1999 the Bank of Japan guided the overnight call rate down to 0.1 percent, a stance dubbed the zero interest rate policy, after cutting it to a record low 0.33 percent in October 1998. ●●●

1999 to 2001 Short-lived recovery of 1999 and relapse ai_extracted 1 cit. The economy staged a sharp recovery in 1999 with the Tokyo stock market rising more than 50 percent, but the market peaked in the first quarter of 2000 and both market and economy slumped again in mid-2000 and 2001. ●●

1999 BoJ credit withdrawal strengthens the yen despite record interventions ai_extracted 1 cit. In 1999 the Bank of Japan withdrew credit from the economy at a record pace, strengthening the yen to close to 100 per dollar by year-end and oversterilizing new record foreign exchange interventions ordered by MoF. ●●●

1999 Bank of Japan withdraws credit in 1999 ai_extracted 1 cit. The Bank of Japan sharply reduced its credit creation in 1999, actively withdrawing credit for most of the year; the yen returned toward 100 per dollar and the 1999 recovery stalled in 2000. ●●●

February 1999 Public money injected into Japanese banks ai_extracted 1 cit. In February 1999 Japanese banks received around 10 trillion yen in public and third-party money, part of the resources that allowed the bubble-era primary bad debts to be largely written off. ●●●

May 1999 to June 1999 Asian leaders call for currency union ai_extracted 1 cit. In May 1999 the head of the Hong Kong Monetary Authority argued that Asia should move toward currency union, a call endorsed in June 1999 by the president of the Philippines. ●●

1 January 1999 European Central Bank begins operations ai_extracted 1 cit. The European Central Bank, described by the Maastricht Treaty as independent of any government or elected assembly, started operations as scheduled on January 1, 1999. ●●●●

1999 Tax money injected into Japanese banks ai_extracted 1 cit. Public tax money was injected into Japanese banks in early 1999, and the Koizumi government proposed further injections in late 2002. ●●●

23 July 1999 Omnibus Act abolishes cartel exemptions ai_extracted 1 cit. With the promulgation on July 23, 1999 of the Omnibus Act to Repeal and Reform Cartels and other exempted systems, the number of legal cartels in Japan basically reached zero. ●●●

February 1999 Zero interest rate policy adopted ai_extracted 1 cit. In February 1999 the Bank of Japan let the overnight call rate fall to 0.1 percent, a stance called the zero interest rate policy, after cutting it to 0.33 percent in October 1998. ●●●

1999 75.5 million people involved in U.S. education by 1999 ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Gatto reports that by the end of 1999, 75.5 million people out of a U.S. population of 275 million were directly involved in giving or receiving education. He uses the figure to show how central schooling had become to national life. ●●

1999 Gatto speaks at Cypress Semiconductor ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Gatto recounts going to Silicon Valley in mid-1999 to speak to executives at Cypress Semiconductor about school reform. His thesis there was that forced schooling follows the requirements of business. ●●

1999 Mark Crispin Miller Introduction From rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Mark Crispin Miller Introduction From 1999 through 2007 I served on a historians’ advisory panel for the US National Archives and Records Administration (NARA). ●●

1999 A few notes on context rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story A few notes on context: The “IWG” mentioned in the critique stands for the Interagency Working Group, which was created in 1999 and made up of representatives from federal agencies implementing the Nazi War Crimes Disclosure Act (NWCDA) and the Japanese Imperial Government Disclosure Act (JIGDA). ●●

1999 Senate passes the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Senate overwhelmingly passed Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act, repealing Glass-Steagall and enabling mergers of commercial and investment banks with insurance companies. ●●

1999 CIA locates bin Laden at Helmand hunting camp ai_extracted 2 cit. no story CIA tracking team locates bin Laden at an elaborately provisioned hunting camp in Helmand Province on February 9, 1999, providing opportunity for military strike. ●●

1999 Abdul Haq's wife and children murdered ai_extracted 2 cit. no story Pakistani intelligence operatives murder anti-Taliban commander Abdul Haq's wife and children on January 12, 1999 to prevent him organizing Pashtun opposition. ●●

1999 Musharraf seizes power in Pakistani coup ai_extracted 1 cit. no story General Pervez Musharraf seizes power in a military coup on October 12, 1999, dismissing Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and assuming control of Pakistan. ●●

1999 Jordanian police seize millennium-plot explosives ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Jordanian police arrest militants and discover seventy-one containers of explosives on December 5, 1999 for planned attacks on the Radisson Hotel and movie theater. ●●

1999 Abu Zubaydah directs millennium terror plots ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Jordanian intelligence intercepts bin Laden's top lieutenant Abu Zubaydah giving orders for coordinated terror attacks timed for the millennium. ●●

1999 ’105 In the euphoria of April 1999, the Houston Astros even renamed their ballpark Enron rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story ’105 In the euphoria of April 1999, the Houston Astros even renamed their ballpark Enron Field. ●●

1999 George W. Bush disparages military Wiccan worship ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Governor George W. Bush of Texas criticized military leaders at Fort Hood for accommodating Wiccan worship circles, stating 'I don't think witchcraft is a religion.' Despite this, the military continued to accommodate Wiccan and other nature-based faiths. ●●

1999 Frankfurter implies this understanding: “I wrote out such a formula for Bohr to rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Frankfurter implies this understanding: “I wrote out such a formula for Bohr to take to London—a communication to Sir John Anderson, who was apparently Bohr’s connecting link with the British government.”1999 Complicating Bohr’s discussions, in March and later, was the question of what to do about the USSR. ●●

1999 1999: 10, 1973, Smithsonian Institution; John Mauchly oral history... rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story d by Nancy Stern, May 6, 1977, American Institute of Physics (AIP); Scott McCartney, ENIAC (Walker, 1999); Herman Goldstine, The Computer from Pascal to von Neumann (Princeton, 1972; locations refer t ●●

1999 1999: 1993; Michael Hiltzik, Dealers of Lightning (Harper, 1999; l... rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story tory of Smalltalk,” ACM SIGPLAN Notices , Mar. 1993; Michael Hiltzik, Dealers of Lightning (Harper, 1999; locations refer to the Kindle edition), chapter 6. 45. Author’s interview with Alan Kay; Landa ●●

1999 1999: Richard Stallman, “The GNU Operating System and the Free Sof... rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story ris DiBona and Sam Ockman, editors, Open Sources: Voices from the Open Source Revolution (O’Reilly, 1999). 120. Author’s interview with Richard Stallman. 121. Richard Stallman, “The GNU Project,” http ●●

1999 1999: uchly oral history, conducted by Henry Tropp, Jan. 10, 1973, Smithsoni rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story uchly oral history, conducted by Henry Tropp, Jan. 10, 1973, Smithsonian Institution; John Mauchly oral history, conducted by Nancy Stern, May 6, 1977 ●●

1999 1999: History of Smalltalk,” ACM SIGPLAN Notices , Mar. 1993; Michael Hiltzi rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story History of Smalltalk,” ACM SIGPLAN Notices , Mar. 1993; Michael Hiltzik, Dealers of Lightning (Harper, 1999; locations refer to the Kindle edition), c ●●

1999 1999: 119. Richard Stallman, “The GNU Operating System and the Free Software rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story 119. Richard Stallman, “The GNU Operating System and the Free Software Movement,” in Chris DiBona and Sam Ockman, editors, Open Sources: Voices from t ●●

1999 Information history in 1999 rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story no. 4 (1964): 301–10. ●●

1999 Margittai Neumann János Lajos to his fellow Hungarians rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story —Edward Teller, 1999 JOHN-LOUIS VON NEUMANN (Margittai Neumann János Lajos to his fellow Hungarians), the first child of Max Neumann and Margit (Gitt ●●

1999 whenever you visited one of the installations with a modern rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story —Julian Bigelow, 1999 “IN ALL THE YEARS after the war, whenever you visited one of the installations with a modern mainframe computer, you would alwa ●●

1999 Thus, with the United States and its NATO allies warring against Yugos... rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Thus, with the United States and its NATO allies warring against Yugoslavia in 1999, allegedly in response to that country’s mistreatment of the Kosovo Albanians, official denunciations of that mistre ●●

1999 They were oblivious to the profoundly undemocratic nature of this lock... rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story They were oblivious to the profoundly undemocratic nature of this lock-in, made more questionable by the fact that it had been negotiated by a Mexican government that ruled as a result of electoral fr ●●

1999 In its euphoria phase, which ended abruptly with the collapse of the d... candidate ai_extracted 1 cit. no story In its euphoria phase, which ended abruptly with the collapse of the dot.com market in 1999 and 2000, the mainstream media hardly noticed that only a minority had been the beneficiaries;128 they brief ●●

1999 Along with trying to contain and reverse the growing centralization of... rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Along with trying to contain and reverse the growing centralization of the mainstream media, grassroots movements and intermediate groups that represent large numbers of ordinary citizens should put m ●●

1999 Google announces $25 million equity investment ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Google held its first press conference announcing a $25 million equity investment, fielding seven million search requests daily. ●●

1999 refdagreining ehf. in Connection With the Issuing of rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story refdagreining ehf. in Connection With the Issuing of a License to Create and Operate a Health Sector Database (HSD),” at www.mannvernd.is. “Profiling an Entire Nation,” Associated Press, 18 February 1999. Mannvernd, “Opts Out From Icelandic Health Sector Database,” at www.mannvernd.is. Mannvernd, “S ●●

1999 East Timor votes for independence from Indonesia ai_extracted 1 cit. no story East Timor had been a province of Indonesia when it voted for independence and became a sovereign state in 1999. ●●

1999 East Timor votes for independence ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Timor Leste nonetheless voted for independence in a 1999 referendum, and became, despite terrible violence by pro-Indonesian militias, an independent country in 2002. ●●

1999 Jianfu Chen, Chinese Law: Towards an Understanding of Chinese Law, Its Nature and Development (Bosto rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Jianfu Chen, Chinese Law: Towards an Understanding of Chinese Law, Its Nature and Development (Boston: Kluwer Law International, 1999), p. ●●

1999 African Economies and the Politics of Permanent Crisis, 1979–1999 rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story African Economies and the Politics of Permanent Crisis, 1979–1999. ●●

1999 Following its bombing of Yugoslavia in 1999, the rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Following its bombing of Yugoslavia in 1999, the United States wound up with mili- tary bases in Kosovo, Albania, Bulgar ●●

1999 Evan Williams launches Pyra Labs and Blogger ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Williams and Meg Hourihan launched Pyra Labs, whose product Blogger helped popularize blogging. ●●

January 1999 The Karura Forest protests against land grabbing 1 cit. When parts of Karura Forest were handed to politically connected developers, Maathai and the Green Belt Movement marched in to plant trees and block the grab. In January 1999 hired guards and police attacked the protesters, and Maathai was beaten and left bloodied. Student protests and public anger followed, and the government eventually halted the allocations. environment / politics / society ●●●

c. 1999 Peatrik reads Mbwaa as a charter of initiation contested 1 cit. Anne-Marie Peatrik argues the Mbwaa story is not a record of migration but a work of political philosophy that encodes the logic of initiation and generational succession. She reads the impossible tasks as a world turned backward toward primordial indistinction, Aita's lengthwise cutting as a figure of circumcision that establishes patrilineal dominance, and the parting of the waters as the release of suspended time so that ages and colours can separate again. On this reading the myth restates the central Meru problem: each generation must reopen the passage and rebuild the social order. culture / religion / society ●●●

1999 The El Molo language falls silent 5 cit. Linguists date the death of the El Molo language to about 1999, when its last fluent speaker, Kaayo, died, leaving only a few people who remember fragments. The tongue is now classed as dormant or extinct, replaced by Samburu. Efforts to record surviving words aim to keep some of it alive. culture / science / society ●●●

1999 Moi appoints Uhuru to the Kenya Tourism Board 2 cit. In 1999 President Daniel arap Moi appointed Uhuru Kenyatta to chair the Kenya Tourism Board. The office introduced him to national-level power brokers and made the former presidents son a visible public manager before he had won an elective seat. It was part of Moi grooming a succession figure who could carry KANU beyond Moi. economy / politics ●●●

2000 Hayami tightens monetary policy as the economy recovers ai_extracted 1 cit. In May 2000 Governor Hayami argued that a recovery might weaken pressure for structural reform, which the author cites as his justification for tightening monetary policy again in 2000. ●●●

2000 Earth Charter completed and published ai_extracted 1 cit. no story The Earth Charter, called for at the 1992 Rio conference by Secretary General Boutros-Ghali, was completed and published on June 29, 2000. ●●

2000 Gatto's estimate of the cost of a schooled child in 2000 ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Gatto estimates that in the year 2000 the cost of producing a well-schooled child in New York State was $200,000 per body once lost interest is counted. ●●

2000 Ohio state motto ruled unconstitutional ai_extracted 1 cit. no story In 2000 the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Ohio's state motto 'With God, all things are possible' unconstitutional. Gatto lists it among decisions removing religious expression from public life. ●●

2000 First Predator flight over Afghanistan ai_extracted 1 cit. no story The pilotless Predator, equipped with cameras and sensors, was declared ready for use over Afghanistan and made its first flight. The agency and the air force later worked out how to arm it with missiles. ●●

2000 Bombing of the USS Cole ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Two men in a speedboat blew a huge hole in the American warship USS Cole in the harbor of Aden, Yemen, killing seventeen sailors. Al Qaeda was the obvious suspect. ●●

2000 Year 2000: In 2000, a copy was leaked to the New York Times. rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story In 2000, a copy was leaked to the New York Times. It confirmed much of what was known about the coup and added many new details. ●●

2000 Year 2000: Wilber and referred to here as “Service History.” rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Wilber and referred to here as “Service History.” A summary of this history was published in the New York Times on April 16, 2000, and the full document is available at www.nytimes... ●●

2000 22, 2000,” copy in author’s rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story 22, 2000,” copy in author’s collection. ●●

2000 CIA obtains Khalid al-Mihdhar's US visa copy ai_extracted 1 cit. no story By January 5, 2000, the CIA obtains a copy of Khalid al-Mihdhar's passport showing a valid US B1/B2 visa issued in Jeddah that would not expire until April 6, 2000. ●●

2000 Richard Clarke's White House counterterrorism group frustrated with bin Laden intelligence rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story By late spring 2000, President Clinton's counterterrorism advisor Richard Clarke and his White House team had grown frustrated by the fragmentary nature of intelligence on Osama bin Laden's whereabouts. ●●

2000 USS Cole attacked by al Qaeda suicide bombers in Aden, Yemen ai_extracted 2 cit. On October 12, 2000, a small boat packed with explosives attacked the USS Cole, an American guided-missile destroyer docked in Aden, Yemen. The explosion killed 17 American sailors and wounded 30 more. ●●

2000 Clinton approves Predator missions over Afghanistan ai_extracted 1 cit. no story President Clinton approved a limited proof-of-concept mission in September 2000 to launch Predator drones. ●●

2000 Terrorism barely registers as campaign issue in U.S. presidential race rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story During the 2000 U.S. presidential campaign, terrorism and bin Laden received almost no attention. ●●

2000 2000: There were many suggestions, such as Crossroads and Quantum ... rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Now they needed to come up with a name. There were many suggestions, such as Crossroads and Quantum 2000, but they all sounded like religious retreats or mutual funds. Case came up with America Online ●●

2000 2000: Apple, 362 –63 Internet and, 4 Jobs’s idea for, 352 –53 K... rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story , 484 , 487 Pyra Labs, 429 , 430 QDOS, 358 –59 Q-Link, 398 Qualcomm, 473 Quantum, 398 Quantum 2000, 399 quantum physics, 42 , 45 , 134 –35 queuing theory, 243 QuickWeb, 434 radar, 72 , 273 radio, 39 t ●●

2000 2000: Donald Davies (1924–2000). Paul Baran (1926–2011). Leonard Kleinrock ( rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Donald Davies (1924–2000). Paul Baran (1926–2011). Leonard Kleinrock (1934 ●●

2000 2000: latforms. Now they needed to come up with a name. There were many sugg rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story latforms. Now they needed to come up with a name. There were many suggestions, such as Crossroads and Quantum 2000, but they all sounded like religiou ●●

2000 2000: 304 Gates’s belief in future of, 329 –30 IBM vs. Apple, 362 –63 Intern rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story 304 Gates’s belief in future of, 329 –30 IBM vs. Apple, 362 –63 Internet and, 4 Jobs’s idea for, 352 –53 Kay’s prediction of, 284 –85, 286 , 287 –88 s ●●

2000 Information history in 2000 rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story (The Return of Meaning) It was inevitable that meaning would force its way back in. —Jean-Pierre Dupuy (2000)♦ THE EXHAUSTION, the surfeit, the pressure of information have all been seen before. ●●

2000 asting Sells; (Out?),” The Nation, December 1, 1997. rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story asting Sells; (Out?),” The Nation, December 1, 1997. 10. Ibid. 11. Stephanie Strom, “Japanese Sites for Women Aim for Empowerment,” New York Times, December 25, 2000. 12. Mark Fineman, “Military Can’t Outflank Rebels in War of Words,” Los Angeles ●●

2000 Development of Impact Mitigation Strategies Related to the Use of Agent Orange Herbicide in the Aluo rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Development of Impact Mitigation Strategies Related to the Use of Agent Orange Herbicide in the Aluoi Valley, Viet Nam, vol. 1 (West Vancouver, B.C., April 2000). 64. Buckingham, Operation Ranch Hand, p. 127. 65. Cited in Seymour Hersh, Chemical an ●●

2000 Gerald Baker, “Is This Great, Or What?” Financial Times, March 31, 1998; Richard Stevenson, “The Wi rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Gerald Baker, “Is This Great, Or What?” Financial Times, March 31, 1998; Richard Stevenson, “The Wisdom to Let the Good Times Roll,” New York Times, December 25, 2000. There were, however, occasional cautionary notes, as in Anne Adams Lang, “Behind ●●

2000 5, 2000. There were, however, occasional cautionary notes, as in Anne Adams Lang, “Behind the Prospe rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story 5, 2000. There were, however, occasional cautionary notes, as in Anne Adams Lang, “Behind the Prosperity, Working People in Trouble,” New York Times, November 20, 2000. 129. Rachel Carson, Silent Spring (Greenwich, Conn.: Fawcett, 1962), p. 183. 13 ●●

2000 Hun Sen a veneer of legitimacy.”42 In reporting on the Yugoslavian ele... rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Hun Sen a veneer of legitimacy.”42 In reporting on the Yugoslavian election of September 2000, in which U.S. ●●

2000 intervention was justified by the fact of “communism on the march” (ed... rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story intervention was justified by the fact of “communism on the march” (editorial, Washington Post, April 30, 2000). ●●

2000 We might ask how we would characterize the Soviet media if the harshes... rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story We might ask how we would characterize the Soviet media if the harshest condemnation of the war in Afghanistan that could be expressed in the year 2000 is that Soviet support for the democratic regime ●●

2000 Yahoo Recognizes Potential of Behavioral Data rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Yahoo! recognized the potential of mining behavioral data from user interactions but did not pursue the idea. ●●

2000 rance world, however, argue that their industry cannot rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story rance world, however, argue that their industry cannot survive without such information, and the resulting coverage restrictions, exclusions and denials that would protect company liquidity.13 A June 2000 American Academy of Actuaries industry-only monograph entitled “Genetic Information and Medical ●●

2000 Tonga sells its gene pool to Autogen ai_extracted 1 cit. no story anies that want to find disease genes common to most Europeans.”33 The tiny Polynesian nation of Tonga sold the information on its unique gene pool to Autogen, an Australian genetic research firm, in 2000. Tonga’s 170 islands host a group of some 108,000 natives isolated for more than three millenni ●●

2000 His book praised not just existing Communist regimes for their ability to expand political participa rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story His book praised not just existing Communist regimes for their ability to expand political participation and force the pace of economic growth; he also wrote approvingly of systems like the one created by Mexico’s Institutional Revolutionary Party (Partido Revolucionario Institutional, or PRI), which ruled the country from the 1940s up until 2000, and returned to power in 2013. ●●

2000 Argentina abandons dollar peg amid economic crisis ai_extracted 1 cit. no story But then Argentina succumbed to a major economic crisis in 2000–2001 as the dollar peg was abandoned, and the country fell into a huge depression. ●●

2000 Kaplan, The Coming Anarchy: Shattering the Dreams of the Post Cold War (New York: Random House, 2000 rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Kaplan, The Coming Anarchy: Shattering the Dreams of the Post Cold War (New York: Random House, 2000), pp. ●●

2000 But whereas some in the pro-life community really do see their struggle as otherworldly, this way... rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story But whereas some in the pro-life community really do see their struggle as otherworldly, this way of thinking is debilitating for people who are genuinely committed 376 f a t a l m i s c o n c e p ... ●●

2000 Political scientist Minxin Pei puts the number at over forty million officials in the year 2000, tho rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Political scientist Minxin Pei puts the number at over forty million officials in the year 2000, though he notes that accurate statistics are hard to come by. ●●

2000 These SOEs during the 2000s gained in relative power over their private-sector rivals and foreign in rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story These SOEs during the 2000s gained in relative power over their private-sector rivals and foreign investors, and have been able to use their political clout to avoid competitive threats to their positions. ●●

2000 The only such country in the western hemisphere is Cuba, though there has been significant backslidi rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story The only such country in the western hemisphere is Cuba, though there has been significant backsliding on democracy in the 2000s in Venezuela, Ecuador, Nicaragua, and other countries. ●●

2000 Australia succeeded in eliminating almost all of its external debt, even prior to the huge resource rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Australia succeeded in eliminating almost all of its external debt, even prior to the huge resource boom of the 2000s. ●●

2000 Jack Goody, Technology, Tradition, and the State in Africa (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1971); rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Jack Goody, Technology, Tradition, and the State in Africa (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1971); Jeffrey Herbst, States and Power in Africa (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2000), pp. ●●