The WWF itself had picked it up from a 1999 magazine article based on a phone interview with an Indian scientist.

VOA: standard.2010.01.23

After the people of East Timor voted for independence from Indonesia in 1999, many thought the country's economic hopes lay in coffee.

VOA: standard.2009.08.28

It started in 1999 with a single Sunday, and then expanded to a weekend, says founder David Levinson.

VOA: standard.2010.05.14

In 1999, as Greece's foreign minister, Mr.Papandreou met with his Turkish counterpart, Ismail Cem, to start rapprochement talks.

VOA: standard.2010.04.15

President Bashir allowed him to return to Sudan in 1999 and he led an unsuccessful run for president in elections in 2000.

VOA: standard.2009.05.31

After overwhelmingly voting for independence from Indonesia on August 30,1999, the country was ransacked by Indonesian-backed militias.

VOA: standard.2009.08.27

Lonestar has sold more than Their biggest breakthrough came in 1999 with the crossover hit "Amazed."

VOA: standard.2010.04.30

The anti-terrorism operation in Chechnya was launched in 1999 under Russia's late president Boris Yeltsin.

VOA: standard.2009.03.26

In his paper, which was published online by the journal Science, Nabel describes the results of animal tests using the 1999 vaccine for the boost.

VOA: standard.2010.07.21

It is a community haunted by its past. In April 1999,Indonesian soldiers and Timorese militias stormed into the village church, where 2,000 residents had sought refuge.

VOA: standard.2009.09.07

The counterterrorism operation in Chechnya was instituted in 1999, when Russia sent troops for the second time since the collapse of the Soviet Union to put down a local separatist movement.

VOA: standard.2009.04.16

The Movement for Democratic Change was formed in 1999.

VOA: standard.2010.04.04

The two sides have fought deadly naval clashes in 1999 and 2002 in the disputed maritime region west of the peninsula, where the North has always rejected a sea border drawn by the United Nations.

VOA: standard.2009.10.15