By the 2004 season the Diamondbacks had dropped to a dismal 51 – 111 record, the worst in Major League Baseball and one of the 10 worst records in the modern era, despite Johnson pitching a perfect game on May 18 of that season.

By the time of his death sales of the company had reached C $ 20 million, which is the equivalent of C $ 160 million in 2004 dollars.

( 2004 ) Nicaragua: Those Passed By.

To manage the merchandise, Davis founded Paws, Inc. By 2002, Garfield became the world's most syndicated strip, appearing in 2, 570 newspapers with 263 million readers worldwide ; by 2004, Garfield appeared in nearly 2, 600 newspapers and sold from $ 750 million to $ 1 billion worth of merchandise in 111 countries.

By 2004, they had four children together: Eric, Sarah, Nancy, and Sofia.

By 2004 George W. Bush had lifted the economic sanctions and official relations resumed with the United States.

By April 1992, as civilian rule returned, 16 major political parties had been recognized ; 12 major political parties were active in 2004.

By August 2004, a report by the Australian Center for Independent Studies suggested that Nauru might consider relinquishing its independent status in favor of becoming an Australian territory.

By 2002, after the crash of Internet advertising, only one news segment could be viewed freely, and by 2004, no free content remained on the website.

By February 2004, a full tour was announced, and tickets for nearly all the initial tour dates sold out within minutes.

By 2004 Family Affairs had a larger fan base and won its first awards, but was cancelled in late 2005.

By 2004 Neighbours was regularly attracting just under a million viewers per episode — low for Australian prime time television.

By 2004, the disarmament process was complete.

By comparison, Taipei 101, built in 2004 in Taiwan, cost around the equivalent of US $ 1. 76 billion in 2005 dollars.

By 2004 the support for SLD in the polls had dropped from about 30 % to just below 10 %, and several high-ranking party members had been accused of taking part in high profile political scandals by the mainstream press ( most notably the Rywin affair: Rywin-gate ).

By December 2004, about 58 % had been dispersed.

Romania: Included in total are 177, 000 killed or missing in action and died of wounds The statistic of 250, 000 military dead is " The figure reported by the Rumanian Government in reply to a questionnaire from the International Labour Office Other estimates of Romanian casualties are as follows: By UK War Office in 1922: 335, 706 Killed and missing By US War Dept in 1924: 335, 706 killed and died Civilian deaths exceeded the prewar level by 430, 000, caused by military action, food shortages, epidemics and the Spanish Flu A Russian journalist in a 2004 handbook of human losses in the 20th century estimated 120, 000 Romanian civilian deaths due to military activity, 10, 000 in Austro-Hungarian prisons and 200, 000 caused by famine and disease

By US War Dept in 1924: 45, 000 killed and died Civilian deaths exceeded the prewar level by 450, 000, due to military activity, food shortages, epidemics and the Spanish Flu A Russian journalist in a 2004 handbook of human losses in the 20th century estimated 120, 000 Serbian civilian deaths due to military activity and 30, 000 in Austro-Hungarian prisons.

By 2004, shirts that exposed the belly button and low rise baggy cargo pants which debuted in the late 1990s, became mainstream.

By 2004, it covered about, and was divided by the dome into a western and eastern lobe.

) By the late 1990s, efforts to promote " authentic " Chardonnay helped to increase plantings and by 2004 it was the 3rd most widely planted white wine grape behind Chenin blanc and Colombard.

By 1988, the U. S. Department of Defense ( DoD ) issued Instruction 4630. 8 ( reissued in 1992, 2002, 2004 ) stating its policy that “ all forces for joint and combined operations be supported through compatible, interoperable, and integrated Command, Control, Communications, and Intelligence systems.

By 2004, sales had dramatically increased, and the reputation of Hyundai cars improved.

By the summer of 1944, victories in the Southwest and Central Pacific had brought the war closer to Japan, with American bombers able to strike at the Japanese main islands from air bases secured during the Mariana Islands campaign ( June — August 1944 ).

By the end of the 20th century, Japan was the only country with an emperor on the throne.

Oshima's Cruel Story of Youth, Night and Fog in Japan and Death By Hanging, along with Shindo's Onibaba, Hani's Kanojo to kare and Imamura's The Insect Woman, became some of the better-known examples of Japanese New Wave filmmaking.

By the late 1970s, many companies around the world ( but especially Japan ), entered the fax market.

By that time the military and strategic situation of Russia had become more difficult due of the rise of Germany and Japan, and Russian central administration and the idea of Pan-Slavism had grown in Saint Petersburg.

By the 1890s, German colonial expansion in Asia and the Pacific ( Kiauchau in China, the Marianas, the Caroline Islands, Samoa ) led to frictions with Britain, Russia, Japan and the United States.

By September 1945, the Third Reich ( which lasted only 12 years ) and its Axis partners ( Italy and Japan ) had been defeated, chiefly by the forces of the Soviet Union, the United States, and the United Kingdom.

He released Come By Me, his first album of big band music in eight years in 1999, and embarked on a world tour visiting the United States, Europe, Japan and Australia.

By 1990, income per capita in Japan equalled or surpassed that in most countries in the West.

By the late Eighties, Japan had moved from being a low-wage to a high-wage economy.

By the turn of the 19th century, the company had become the largest of the ‘’ hongs ’’ or foreign trading conglomerates with offices in all the important Chinese cities as well as Yokohama, Japan.

By 1980 the firm had operations in southern Africa, Australia, China, Great Britain, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, Philippines, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan, Thailand, as well as the United States, and employed 37, 000 people.

By January 1944, Germany had diplomatic relations with only a handful of countries: Argentina, Ireland, Vichy France, the Salo Republic in Italy, Occupied Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Slovakia, Hungary, Romania, Croatia, Bulgaria, Switzerland, the Holy See, Spain, Portugal, Turkey, Thailand, Japan, and the Japanese puppet states of Manchukuo and the Wang Jingwei regime in China.

By 1929, Otsuka was registered as a member of the Japan Martial Arts Federation.

By the 1970s and 1980s the sport had expanded beyond Japan and had reached North America and Europe.

By 1970, kickboxing was telecast in Japan on three different channels three times weekly.

By 1980 due to poor ratings and then infrequent television coverage the golden-age of kickboxing in Japan was suddenly finished.

By the end of the 1970s, electronic musical devices were becoming increasingly common and affordable in North America, Europe and Japan.

By the end of the 1930s, agreements on foreign assistance and trade had been reached with many countries, most notably Germany, Italy, and Japan.

By the 26 July, the Potsdam Declaration had been broadcast to Japan, threatening total destruction unless the Imperial Japanese government submitted to unconditional surrender.

By the end of the nineteenth century, all elements of artistic and cultural life had recognized and begun to come to terms with world culture as found in the West and Japan.

By comparison, China had an estimated 114 people, the Federal Republic of Germany ( West Germany ) 246 people, and Japan 323 people per square kilometer in the late 1980s.

By the 18th century such hand-games had become popular in Japan, where the most common name for them was Janken ( じゃんけん ), or sometimes Ishiken ( 石拳 ), Jaiken ( じゃいけん ), or Injan ( いんじゃん ) etc ..

By 2000 the custom had spread to all of Japan.