Spain, for example, passed a bankruptcy law ( ley concursal ) in 2003 which provides for debt settlement plans that can result in a reduction of the debt ( maximally half of the amount ) or an extension of the payment period of maximally five years ( Gerhardt, 2009 ); nevertheless, it does not foresee debt discharge.

The UN eventually lifted these sanctions ( with Resolution 1506 ) in 2003 when Libya " accepted responsibility for the actions of its officials, renounced terrorism and arranged for payment of appropriate compensation for the families of the victims.

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Because the 2003 payment formulas overpay plans by 12 percent or more compared to traditional Medicare, in 2006 enrollees in Medicare Advantage Private Fee-for-Service plans were offered a net extra benefit value ( the value of the additional benefits minus any additional premium ) of $ 55. 92 a month more than the traditional Medicare benefit package ; enrollees in other Medicare Advantage plans were offered a net extra benefit value of $ 71. 22 a month more.

In November 2003, BBC journalists uncovered a payment by Fatah of $ 50, 000 a month to al-Aqsa.

Due to ineffective controls and oversight of the NRPH's closing in 2003, and purchasing, receiving, and payment processes, there is still much unused and used equipment left in the buildings that lost all value during storage.

His Chief of Staff, Park Ji-Won, was sentenced to twelve years in prison in 2003 for, among other charges, his role in the Hyundai payment to North Korea for the North – South summit.

The Counts of Miravalle, residing in Andalucía, Spain, demanded in 2003 that the government of Mexico recommence payment of the so called ' Moctezuma pensions ' it had cancelled in 1934.

In 2003, a pilot project in Mountain View, California, to sell doughnuts through car windows and sunroofs at a busy intersection ( with wireless payment ) failed.

Consequently the Fund announced in 2003 it was " legally obliged to freeze not only new grants but payment of existing grants ".

The border was re-opened on 21 March 2003, following the Cambodian government ’ s payment of $ 6 million compensation for the destruction of the Thai embassy.

Since the beginning of 2003, Iran has required euro in payment of exports toward Asia and Europe.

Mperia was an online music store founded in 2003 by BitPass to use the BitPass payment system.

In September 2003, Interplay announced that it had canceled its deal with Vivendi to be the publisher of its games, due to alleged breaches of the working agreement and failure of payment, and was considering legal action.

During 2003 the DWP commenced the use of Post Office accounts for the payment of benefits, a process fully operational at the beginning of the financial year in 2005.

He was involved in a scandal during 2003 because he had apparently not paid his employees during instances that he had not required them, such as when he was on tour, and then fired them when they demanded payment.

In Victoria, Australia, the Retail Leases Act 2003 calls key-money a payment or benefit without true consideration, expected from a tenant in order for a lease being granted, renewed or modified, and makes such payment illegal.

He agreed a move to Manchester United after his contract expired in June 2003, although the transfer was completed amidst " tapping up " allegations that were resolved by Sunderland receiving a compensation payment of £ 2 million, rising to £ 3 million depending on appearances, in an out-of-court agreement.

Dexit is a rechargeable, contactless, stored-value smart key tag used for electronic payment in on-line or off-line systems in Toronto, Canada, since 2003.

Cubic Transportation Systems, Inc. is working under a contract valued at $ 16. 4 million, but Metro Transit stopped payment at $ 9. 4 million in May 2003 when it became apparent that the rollout would be behind schedule.

In 2003, Hill became a proponent of tax redirection, resisting payment of about $ 150, 000 in federal taxes, donating that money to after-school programs, arts and cultural programs, community gardens, programs for Native Americans, alternatives to incarceration, and environmental protection programs.

The airline was liquidated by a French court on 10 July 2003 after it failed to make a 5 million Euro payment to creditors.

On 1 December 2003, BACS Payment Schemes Limited ( BPSL ) was split from BACS Limited: BPSL as a " not for profit " body with members from the banking industry which promotes the use of automated payment schemes and governs the rules of the BACS scheme ; BACS Limited owns the infrastructure to run the BACS scheme.

One academic study ( Heffernan, 2003 ) found that demutualised societies ' pricing behaviour on deposits and mortgages was more favourable to shareholders than to customers, with the remaining mutual building societies offering consistently better rates.

Although FY 2003 began with the rapid decline of the gourde due to rumors that U. S. dollar deposit accounts would be nationalized and due to the withdrawal of fuel subsidies, the government successfully stabilized the gourde as it took the politically difficult decisions to float fuel prices freely according to world market prices and to raise interest rates.

The then-proposed 802. 11g standard was rapidly adopted by consumers starting in January 2003, well before ratification, due to the desire for higher data rates as well as to reductions in manufacturing costs.

In 2003, the director of Asia-Pacific Network Information Centre ( APNIC ), Paul Wilson, stated that, based on then-current rates of deployment, the available space would last for one or two decades.

* Exchange rates: Swiss francs per US dollar-1. 3467 ( 2003 ), 1. 5586 ( 2002 ), 1. 6876 ( 2001 ), 1. 6888 ( 2000 ), 1. 5022 ( 1999 )

In another promising development, interest rates dropped dramatically in 2004, from 50 percent in 2003 to 27 percent in 2004.

* Exchange rates: euros per US dollar – 0. 886 ( 2003 ), 1. 0626 ( 2002 ), 1. 0626 ( 2001 ), 1. 08540 ( 2000 ), 0. 93863 ( 1999 )

* Exchange rates: Uruguayan pesos per US dollar-24. 048 ( 2006 ), 24. 479 ( 2005 ), 28. 704 ( 2004 ), 28. 209 ( 2003 ), 21. 257 ( 2002 )

Since 1991, however, there has been a jump in death rates from a low of 10 per 1000 in 1985 to a high of 25 per 1000 in 2002 / 2003.

The mobile sub-sector has experienced excellent growth rates following the introduction of competition in 2003 between Vodacom Mozambique and mCel, the incumbent mobile subsidiary of the national telco, Telecomunicações de Moçambique ( TDM ).

Exchange rates: East Caribbean dollars per US dollar-2. 7 ( 2007 ), 2. 7 ( 2006 ), 2. 7 ( 2005 ), 2. 7 ( 2004 ), 2. 7 ( 2003 ) note: fixed rate since 1976

Exchange rates: euros per US dollar-0. 6827 ( 2008 ), 0. 7306 ( 2007 ), 0. 7964 ( 2006 ), 0. 8041 ( 2005 ), 0. 8054 ( 2004 ), 0. 886 ( 2003 ), 1. 0626 ( 2002 ), 1, 1175 ( 2001 ), 0, 9867 ( January 2000 ), 0, 9386 ( 1999 )

Japan has a very large and well-developed consumer cooperative movement with over 14 million members ; retail co-ops alone had a combined turnover of 2. 519 trillion Yen ( 21. 184 billion US dollars exchange rates as of 15 November 2005 ) in 2003 / 4.

Terre Haute is often portrayed negatively in the media, such as a 2003 Indianapolis Star article that called the city a " model of stagnation ," citing high unemployment rates, low retention rate of graduating students, odor from the town's industries, and general lack of culture.

Germany experienced deposit interest rates from 14 % in 1969 down to almost 2 % in 2003

A 2003 controlled double-blind study from the University of Virginia School of Medicine and documented in the New England Journal of Medicine stated that echinacea extracts had " no clinically significant effects " on rates of infection or duration or intensity of symptoms.

The city saw hotel occupancy rates rise fifty percent in 2003 during Holy Week.

Exchange rates: Aruban guilders / florins per US dollar-NA ( 2007 ), 1. 79 ( 2006 ), 1. 79 ( 2005 ), 1. 79 ( 2004 ), 1. 79 ( 2003 )

Some of the data for 2003 refers to rates on May 28 for countries beginning with A-E, and June 2 for countries listed F-Z.

In 2003, Verizon partnered with Tenzing Communications to offer very low-speed email using an on-board proxy server and limited live instant messaging at rates of 64 to 128 kbit / s on United Airlines and two other carriers.

Rapid economic growth resumed in 2002 and inflation came down from an average of nearly 70 percent in the 1990s to 12 percent in 2003 ; interest rates fell and the exchange rate for the Turkish lira stabilized.

( 2003, 2004 ) have pointed to higher rates of primary care utilization.

The Drug Free Australia calculations compared the registration data for overdose histories published in the MSIC ’ s 2003 evaluation document, which allowed comparison rates of overdose from a period before a heroin drought reduced overdoses Australia-wide, with rates of overdose drawn from data in the 2010 evaluation.