Chief of Staff Captain Aloysius Tom Ur told troops in January 2004 that the 2004 strength of 3, 000 would be reduced by one-third, and that during 2004, the force's personnel branch would merge with the support branch into a new organisation.

* Former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff: Israel Deliberately Attacked US Ship, Daily Star, January 21, 2004.

* Leigh Armistead, Information Operations: The Hard Reality of Soft Power, Joint Forces Staff College and the National Security Agency ( 2004 ) ( ISBN 1574886991 ).

He told BBC Panorama in 2004 that Defence Intelligence Staff in Whitehall did not have a high degree of confidence any of the facilities identified, targeted and bombed in Operation Desert Fox were active in producing weapons of mass destruction.

Past honorees have included: Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz ( 2002 ), Senator Joe Lieberman ( 1997 ), Senator Max Cleland ( 2000 ), then-Defense Secretary Dick Cheney ( 1991 ), all three Secretaries of the U. S. Armed Services ( 2001 ), Congresswoman Jane Harman and Congressman Jim Saxton ( 2003 ), Indiana Senator Evan Bayh ( 2004 ), Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Peter Pace ( USMC ) ( 2005 ), Senator John McCain ( 2006 ), Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates ( 2007 ), Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Admiral Mike Mullen ( 2008 ), and ( 2009 ) all five chiefs of the U. S. Armed Forces and the Commander of the U. S. Special Operations Command ( U. S. Army Chief of Staff Gen. George W. Casey, Jr .; U. S. Marine Corps Commandant Gen. James T. Conway ; U. S. Navy Chief of Naval Operations Admiral Gary Roughead ; Coast Guard Commandant Adm. Thad W. Allen ; Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Norton A. Schwartz ; Commander of U. S. Special Operations Command U. S. Navy Adm. Eric T.

State of Denial, a book by investigative reporter Bob Woodward, says that White House Chief of Staff, Andrew Card, urged President Bush to replace Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld with Baker following the 2004 election.

* Chief of General Staff of the People's Liberation Army — General Chen Bingde ( since September 2004 )

In 2004 the Duke was appointed to the new post of Assistant Chief of the Defence Staff with responsibility for Reserves and Cadets, with promotion to the rank of Major-General.

* Staff Writer " Terry's factory to close in 2005 ", The BBC, 22 June 2004, retrieved 31 October 2006.

* Staff Writer " Ancient bones may be Iron Age ", The Evening Press, 11 September 2004, retrieved 31 October 2006.

Chris Powell, BMP DDB Needham's chief executive until 2004, is the brother of Jonathan Powell, Tony Blair's Chief of Staff to the Prime Minister, and several people who served in the Labour Party's Shadow Communications Agency came from BMP.

He was Secretary-General ( Chief of Staff ) to the Office of the President of the Republic of China under President Chen Shui-bian ( 2004 – 2005 ).

Dooley announced his retirement in 2004 and endorsed his Chief of Staff, Lisa Quigley, as his successor.

In 1997 – 98 he served as White House Chief of Staff and he also ran unsuccessfully for a North Carolina United States Senate seat in 2002 and 2004.

* Staff ( June 26, 2004 ).

In June 2004, Lieutenant General Sanchez relinquished command of the Multi-National Force Iraq ( MNF-I ) to General George Casey, Vice Chief of Staff of the Army.

As President Fernández acceded to a second term in 2004, Danilo Medina was once again appointed Secretary of the Presidency ( Equivalent to Chief of Staff ) and considered second in command on internal corridors of Government.

* Women of the Year-Ten Fillies Who Achieved Horse Racing's Highest Honor by the Staff and Correspondents of The Blood-Horse magazine ( 2004 ) Eclipse Press ISBN 1-58150-116-1

* Admiral Arun Prakash, Chief of the Naval Staff, Indian Navy, and Chairman, Chiefs of Staff Committee, India, 2004 – 2006.

New York City Opera staged it in 1990, 1991 and 2003, the Houston Grand Opera in 1999, and the Los Angeles Opera in 2004.

Caltrans District 7 Headquarters | District 7 Headquarters, Los Angeles, birds-eye view ( designed by Thom Mayne ( 2004 ))

* 2004 – Winner, Career Achievement Award, Los Angeles Film Critics Association

William Jan Berry ( born in Los Angeles, California April 3, 1941 ; died March 26, 2004 ), was the son of aeronautical engineer William L. Berry ( born December 7, 1909 in The Bronx, NY ; died December 19, 2004 in Camarillo, California ), who had been project manager of the " Spruce Goose " and flew on its only flight with Howard Hughes, and Clara Lorentze Mustad Berry ( born September 2, 1919 in Bergen, Norway ; died July 9, 2009 ).

During their marriage, several of Grammer and Donatacci's homes were featured in magazines, including ones in: Malibu, California ( February 2001, InStyle ), Maui ( May 2004, InStyle ), Long Island, New York ( April 2008, InStyle ), Bachelor Gulch, Colorado ( Architectural Digest ), and Bel Air, Los Angeles ( Architectural Digest ).

In September 2004, the Brewers announced they had reached a verbal agreement with Los Angeles investment banker Mark Attanasio to purchase the team for a reported US $ 223 million.

In 2004 she collaborated with former Los Angeles neighbour Morrissey to record a version of his song " Let Me Kiss You ", which was featured on her autumn release Nancy Sinatra.

* Acosta Hospitaleche, Carolina ( 2004 ): Los pingüinos ( Aves, Sphenisciformes ) fósiles de Patagonia.

* Retail design for Prada stores ( New York: 2003, Los Angeles: 2004 )

The piece was first performed in Los Angeles at Disney Hall on 3 separate evenings in 2004, one act at a time, then given complete performances at the Bastille Opera in Paris in April and November 2005.

LLNL is home to many unique facilities and a number of the most powerful computer systems in the world, according to the TOP500 list, including Blue Gene / L, the world's fastest computer from 2004 until Los Alamos National Laboratory's IBM Roadrunner supercomputer surpassed it in 2008.

Los Angeles, 2004 ( Google Books Preview ).

* 2004: Dan Neil, Los Angeles Times, " for his one-of-a-kind reviews of automobiles, blending technical expertise with offbeat humor and astute cultural observations.

Impressions Games and the Papyrus Design Group were shut down in the spring of 2004, and about 50 people lost their jobs in those cuts ; 180 Sierra-related positions were eliminated at Vivendi ’ s Los Angeles offices ; and finally in June 2004, VU Games shut down Sierra's Bellevue location, which cost over 100 people their jobs, and dispersed Sierra ’ s work to other VU Games divisions.

In December 2004, at a gig in Los Angeles the band played The Police hits " De Do Do Do, De Da Da Da ", " Message in a Bottle " & " Roxanne " with Stewart Copeland and Andy Summers from the former band.

In 2004, Copeland and Summers joined Incubus onstage at KROQ's Almost Acoustic Christmas concert in Los Angeles performing " Roxanne " and " Message in a Bottle ".

The Director's cut of the film was released on May 29, 2004, in Seattle, Washington, at the Seattle International Film Festival and later in New York City and Los Angeles on July 23, 2004.

He was subsequently signed by the Los Angeles Dodgers, but was released at season's end, and he returned to the Bears for 2004.

Cechmanek was traded to Los Angeles for a 2004 second round draft pick during the off-season despite having the second-best goals-against average in the league over his three years in Philadelphia.

They acquired superstar center Shaquille O ' Neal on July 14, 2004 in a trade with the Los Angeles Lakers for Lamar Odom, Caron Butler and Brian Grant.

A week later on December 14, 2011, the Hornets agreed to a deal with the Los Angeles Clippers that would send Paul to Los Angeles in exchange for Eric Gordon, Chris Kaman, Al-Farouq Aminu, and a first-round draft pick acquired by the Clippers from a trade with the Minnesota Timberwolves in 2004.

On December 28, 2004, head coach Jeff Bzdelik was fired from the organization and replaced by interim coach, former Los Angeles Laker player and Los Angeles Sparks head coach Michael Cooper.