* 2003: Kevin Sullivan and Mary Jordan, Washington Post, " for their exposure of horrific conditions in Mexico's criminal justice system and how they affect the daily lives of people.

In 2003, PEMEX said it could take total investment of $ 30 billion over 15 years to fully develop Mexico's oil and gas reserves in the Chicontepec Basin.

On 3 September 2003 Mexico's top electoral court ruled that its statutes were in violation of the Constitution in that they allowed a restricted inner circle of members to select all the party's candidates and officials.

However, production has declined since 2003, falling to by the end of 2010, making it Mexico's second most productive oil field after Ku-Maloob-Zaap.

But among the fighters she beat were Mexico's Laura Serrano, decisioned over eight rounds on April 18, 2003 in Lemoore, California, and Puerto Rico's Melissa Del Valle, outpointed over eight rounds on September 6 of that same year in Washington, D. C.

* Led historic meetings in Sante Fe, NM, ( 2003 ) and El Paso / Ciudad Juarez ( 2007 ) with federal cultural leaders and counterparts from Mexico's National Council on Culture and the Arts ( CONACULTA );

The antitrust settlement allowed the 2003 purchase of a royalty-free, perpetual license for the MSC. Nastran 2001 source code by UGS.

When the competing Cleveland Free Times was shut down briefly in 2003, the Scene was investigated for antitrust violations.

Most recently, at the fifteenth general assembly in 2003, the WTO general council and the UN agreed to establish the WTO as a specialized agency of the UN.

In 2003, in the lead-up to the 2003 invasion of Iraq, an ONA intelligence officer named Andrew Wilkie resigned from the agency, citing pressure from the Australian government to exaggerate intelligence on the matter of Iraq and weapons of mass destruction.

In the 2003 – 04 season, the Clippers lost many of their core players to free agency ( Miller, Odom, Olowokandi, and forward Eric Piatkowski -- one of the longest-tenured players in Clippers history ), while opting to retain Brand and Maggette with long-term contracts.

Brown warned in September 2003 that FEMA's absorption into DHS would make a mockery of FEMA ’ s new motto, " A Nation Prepared ", and would " fundamentally sever FEMA from its core functions ", " shatter agency morale " and " break longstanding, effective and tested relationships with states and first responder stakeholders ".

The agency is headquartered in the state-of-the-art New Brighton Public Safety Center, which opened in 2003, and maintains a modern fleet of police and fire vehicles.

In June 2003, Litvinenko stated in an interview with the Australian television programme Dateline, that two of the Chechen militants involved in the siege — whom he named " Abdul the Bloody " and " Abu Bakar "— were working for the FSB, and that the agency manipulated the terrorists into staging the attack.

Today, as described in its 2003 – 2008 strategic plan, the NSF is the only U. S. federal agency with a mandate to support all the non-medical fields of research.

In 2003, Burger King hired the Miami-based advertising agency of Crispin Porter + Bogusky ( CP + B ).

In 2003, the South Korean government passed a law giving financial and systematic assistance to the agency, to reinforce staff and provide equipment.

He was captured on March 1, 2003, in Rawalpindi, Pakistan, by the Inter-Services Intelligence agency of Pakistan, and transferred to U. S. custody.

* Every third person will be a slum dweller within 30 years, UN agency warns ; John Vidal ; The Guardian ; October 4, 2003.

Evelyn Coke, a home care worker employed by a home care agency that was not paying her overtime, sued the agency in 2003, alleging that the regulation construing the “ companionship services ” exemption to apply to agency employees and exempt them from the federal minimum wage and overtime law is inconsistent with the law.

The United States Department of Transportation, the regulatory agency overseeing tour operators opened an investigation against his company Mainline Airways in 2003 and took no action.

On July 9, 2003, Governor of New Jersey Jim McGreevey's plan to merge the operating organizations of the Garden State Parkway and the New Jersey Turnpike into one agency was completed.

" And in 2003, BBC News described ATSDR as " widely regarded as the world's leading agency on public health and the environment.

In the sixth season ( 2003 – 2004 ), Paige grows tired of unemployment and obtains a job at a temp agency.

Between April of 2003 and November 2006, the agency fielded 23, 886 complaints related to medical-privacy rules, but it has not yet taken any enforcement actions against hospitals, doctors, insurers or anyone else for rule violations.

The commission's president established Order No 3451 / MDN / DC / SA of 30 December 2003, which gave the Bureau d ' Enquêtes et d ' Analyses pour la Sécurité de l ' Aviation Civile ( BEA ), the aviation investigation agency of France, the responsibility of conducting the technical investigation.

The party was de-registered by Elections Canada, the Canadian government's election agency, on January 23, 2003.

Some state Real Estate Commissions, notably Florida's after 1992 ( and extended in 2003 ) and Colorado's after 1994 ( with changes in 2003 ), created the option of having no agency nor fiduciary relationship between brokers and sellers or buyers.

He was head of the Pedeciba, the main funding agency for basic sciences in Uruguay ( 2003 – 2008 ).

The Union of the Comoros, known as the Islamic Federal Republic of the Comoros until 2003, is ruled by Ahmed Abdallah Sambi.

* 1908 – Pierre Graber, Swiss Federal Councilor ( d. 2003 )

A protocol concerning Ethiopian access to Port Sudan was signed between the two countries 5 March 2000 in Khartoum, and this protocol and its subsequent amendment were ratified by the Ethiopian Federal Parliamentary Assembly on 3 July 2003.

The Federal Reserve Banks began a multi-year restructuring of their check operations in 2003 as part of a long-term strategy to respond to the declining use of checks by consumers and businesses and the greater use of electronics in check processing.

* 2003 – The Federal Republic of Yugoslavia is officially renamed to Serbia and Montenegro and adopts a new constitution.

In June 2003, the Department of Justice issued its Guidance Regarding the Use of Race by Federal Law Enforcement Agencies forbidding racial profiling by federal law enforcement officials.

The Federal Assembly of FRY ( 1992 – 2003 ) was composed out of two chambers: the council of citizens and the council of republics.

From 1959 to 2003 the Federal Council was composed of a coalition of all major parties in the same ratio: 2 each from the Free Democratic Party, Social Democratic Party and Christian Democratic People's Party and 1 from the Swiss People's Party.

In the elections of 2003, the People's Party received ( effective January 1, 2004 ) a second seat in the Federal Council, reducing the share of the Christian Democratic Party to one seat.

On October 15, 2003, the Federal Council ended the import restrictions on raw diamonds from Sierra Leone and lifted sanctions against Libya.

According to the Federal Government, about 1. 1 million children were Home Educated in 2003.

According to the Federal Government, about 1. 1 million children were Home Educated in 2003.

In 2003, Staind unsuccessfully sued their logo designer Jon Stainbrook in New York Federal Court for attempting to re-use the logo he had sold to the band.

In November 2003 Staind attempted to sue Ohio musician Jon Stainbrook in New York Federal Court over his 1980 trademark of " The Stain ".

The Telecommunications Regulatory Authority ( TRA ) of the United Arab Emirates ( UAE ) was established according to the UAE Federal Law by Decree No. 3 of 2003.

One of the five successor states was also known as the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, until 2003.

On 4 February 2003 parliament of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia ( FRY ) agreed to a weaker union between Serbia and Montenegro within a commonwealth called " Serbia and Montenegro ".

Finally in February 2003, the Constitutional Charter was ratified by both republics, and the FRY Parliament and the name of the country was changed from Federal Republic of Yugoslavia to Serbia and Montenegro.

Since the breakup of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia in the early 1990s, the foreign policy of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia ( renamed Serbia and Montenegro in 2003 ) was characterized primarily by a desire to secure its political and geopolitical position and the solidarity of ethnic Serbs in the Balkan region through a strong nationalist campaign.

* December 6 – Pierre Graber, Swiss Federal Councilor ( d. 2003 )

* April 28 – The two remaining constituent republics of the former Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia – Serbia and Montenegro – form a new state, named the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia ( after 2003, Serbia and Montenegro ), bringing to an end the official union of Serbs, Croats, Slovenes, Montenegrins, Bosnian Muslims and Macedonians that existed from 1918 ( with the exception of the period during World War II ).

The Court also overruled that portion of McConnell v. Federal Election Commission, 540 U. S. 93 ( 2003 ), that upheld BCRA's restriction of corporate spending on " electioneering communications ".

The NCS was one of 22 Federal agencies transferred to the Department on March 1, 2003, in accordance with Executive Order 13286.