* STN Atlas Elektronik GmbH was a German defence company producing electronics until 2003

* Manville B. and Josiah Ober 2003, A company of citizens: what the world's first democracy teaches leaders about creating great organizations.

In 2003, the company saw revenues increase primarily because of rate hikes in the insurance industry ( meaning higher commissions for Aon ).

On March 15, 2004, Amiga, Inc. announced that on April 23, 2003 it had transferred its rights over past and future versions of the Amiga OS ( but not over other intellectual property ) to Itec, LLC, later acquired by KMOS, Inc., a Delaware company.

Starting 2003, Nile Radio Production a private company was given license to operate two radio stations, Nile FM and Nogoom FM.

The name Gibtelecom begun to be used in July 2002, and as of 1 October 2003 this name was formally adopted by the company ( which up until then was still Gibraltar Nynex Communications ).

In December 2003, Maple Leaf Heritage Investments, a Nova Scotia-based company created to acquire shares of Hudson's Bay Company, announced that it was considering making an offer to acquire all or some of the common shares of Hudson's Bay Company.

The World Bank, who view the cancellation of those projects will ruin Haiti road Infrastructure Concise into creating, FER ( Fond d ’ Etretient Routiers ) in 2003, this was a way to cut down corruption, get local company involved, and not stopping those works because of political Contestation.

Following the band's breakup, Rollins established the record label and publishing company 2. 13. 61 to release his spoken word albums, as well as forming the Rollins Band, which toured with a number of lineups from 1987 until 2003, and during 2006.

The company was founded in 2003 and supports the start-up, growth and relocation of businesses in the Hannover Region.

After an open letter from ICANN issuing an ultimatum to VeriSign, later supported by the IAB, the company voluntarily shut down the service on October 4, 2003.

After a visit to Transmeta in late 1996, Torvalds accepted a position at the company in California, where he would work from February 1997 until June 2003.

In September 2003, a new type of blue LED was demonstrated by the company Cree Inc. to provide 24 mW at 20 milliamperes ( mA ).

In 2003, the British theatre company Punchdrunk used The Beaufoy Building in London, an old Victorian school to stage " Sleep No More ", the story of Macbeth in the style of a Hitchcock thriller, using reworked music from the soundtrack of classic Hitchcock films.

In 2003 the two countries sold a 25-year concession to run the rail line to a Canadian company, which has pledged to upgrade equipment and infrastructure.

Proposals to sell Tranz Rail's Wellington passenger rail services, Tranz Metro, did not come to fruition, although the division became a separate company in July 2003.

In 2003 Tranz Rail was purchased by Australian freight firm Toll Holdings, which renamed the company Toll NZ.

* 2003 – A bankruptcy court approves MCI's reorganization plans, essentially clearing the telecommunications company to exit bankruptcy.

In September 2003, Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's cabinet proposed splitting Japan Post into four separate companies: A bank, an insurance company, a postal service company, and a fourth company to handle the post offices as retail storefronts of the other three.

The Boxster was Porsche's biggest volume seller from its introduction in 1996 until the company introduced the Cayenne sport utility vehicle in 2003.

He published Volume IIA in October 2003 with Landes Bioscience while serving as a research scientist at Zyvex Corp., a nanotechnology company headquartered in Richardson, Texas, during 2000-2004.

A merger between Square and its competitor Enix was in consideration since at least 2000 ; however, the financial failure of the movie Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within made Enix hesitant to join with a company which was losing money, and the merge was delayed until April 1, 2003, when the two companies finally merged to form Square Enix.

The company relocated to Venray ( The Netherlands ) in September 2003, where it still manufactures editing tables.

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, when Codex Alimentarius was about to remove any upper dose limit for food irradiation, the SCF adopted a " revised opinion ", which, in fact, was a re-confirmation and endorsement of the 1986 opinion.

In opposition in October 2003, the Parti Québécois tabled a motion that was unanimously adopted in the National Assembly affirming that the Quebec people formed a nation.

The reform " Army XXI " was adopted by popular vote in 2003.

In 2003, the 3GPP, an international telecommunications standards group, adopted SVG Tiny as the mandatory vector graphics media format for next-generation phones.

In late 2003 a new law was adopted reducing the powers of the Mejlis and making the Halk Maslahaty the supreme legislative organ.

These worsening economic conditions played a part in turning public opinion against the free market economic policies adopted by the Batlle administration and its predecessors, leading to popular rejection through plebiscites of proposals for privatization of the state petroleum company in 2003 and of the state water company in 2004.

Other international policy frameworks produced by WHO include the International Code of Marketing of Breast-milk Substitutes ( adopted in 1981 ), Framework Convention on Tobacco Control ( adopted in 2003 ) and the Global Code of Practice on the International Recruitment of Health Personnel ( adopted in 2010 ).

On their 2003 album Mescalero, ZZ Top adopted a more contemporary sound while maintaining their influences from their earlier musical pursuits.

For example, in August 2003, the Métis Nation of Alberta adopted a formal " Definition of Métis " to determine who was eligible for membership of the Nation.

Since 2003, many of the most important organizations in famine relief, such as the World Food Programme and the U. S. Agency for International Development, have adopted a five-level scale measuring intensity and magnitude.

The Durban summit adopted a document setting out the stages of peer review and the principles by which the APRM should operate ; further core documents were adopted at a meeting in Abuja in March 2003, including a Memorandum of Understanding to be signed by governments wishing to undertake the peer review.

* The " e-schools programme ", adopted by the HSGIC in 2003 as an initiative to equip all 600, 000 primary and secondary schools in Africa with IT equipment and internet access within 10 years, in partnership with several large IT companies.

Further conventions were adopted at the regional level under the aegis of the Organization of American States ( OAS or OEA ), the African Union, and in 2003, at the universal level under that of the United Nations Convention against Corruption.

The meeting of a constitutional loya jirga was held in December 2003, when a new constitution was adopted creating a presidential form of government with a bicameral legislature: the House of Elders ( Meshrano Jirga ) and the House of the People ( Wolesi Jirga ).

In 2003, despite Dunaway's earlier claims that she had given birth to Liam, Terry claims that Liam was adopted.

The UK adopted the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child, on the involvement of children in armed conflict on 24 June 2003.

* EU guidelines on children and armed conflict adopted at the General Affairs Council meeting on 8 December 2003.

In a controversial move following the 2003 sexual assault scandal, the words " Bring me men ..." were taken down and replaced with the Academy's ( later adopted as the Air Force's ) core values: " Integrity first, service before self, and excellence in all we do.

ET on October 7, 2002, Disney Channel introduced a new on-air appearance with a new logo designed by CA Square ( using an outline of Mickey Mouse's head as its centerpiece ) that was adopted by its international sister channels in May 2003, and unveiling a new graphics designed to fit the network's new look.

Midway in July 2003, Fox Sports Net adopted new graphics for its baseball broadcasts, then later expanded them to college football, hockey, and basketball broadcasts, despite retaining the banner.