While the definitive studies are lacking, the former view received support from a 2004 meta-analysis of 13 small studies.

However, in fall 2004, three former Costa Rican presidents ( Jose Maria Figueres, Miguel Angel Rodríguez, and Rafael Angel Calderon ) were investigated on corruption charges related to the issuance of government contracts.

The Quaternary Period was officially recognized by the International Commission on Stratigraphy in June 2009, and the former Tertiary Period was officially disused in 2004.

Several international financial institutions have praised the economic reforms introduced by former president Álvaro Uribe ( elected 7 August 2002 ), which include measures designed to reduce the public-sector deficit below 2. 5 % of GDP in 2004.

Al Sharpton, former Pentecostal minister, now a Baptist minister and Civil rights leader, during his campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2004 said that asking whether gays or lesbians should be able to get married was insulting: " That's like saying you give blacks, or whites, or Latinos the right to shack up – but not get married [...] It's like asking ' do I support black marriage or white marriage '...

The former site of Commodore's operational headquarters in West Chester, Pennsylvania, now houses the headquarters and broadcast studios of leading cable retailer QVC, Inc. ( On November 26, 2004, QVC became the first retailer to sell the DTV, a " C64 in a joystick " designed by Jeri Ellsworth.

Only the former International Race of Champions actually retired the No. 3, which they did in a rule change effective in 2004.

** DONG Cup, a former name of the Danish Cup trophy, sponsored by the oil company from 2000 to 2004

A bare majority of Congress, acting in a special session called by former President Lucio Gutiérrez in December, 2004, ousted 27 of the 31 justices and replaced them with new members chosen by Congress, notwithstanding the lack of any provisions permitting impeachment of Supreme Court justices by Congress and the specific provisions giving the Court the power to select new members.

Following the elections in 2004, the former MEPs of the group took MEPs from the new member countries on board and together, they registered the new group Independence and Democracy ( IND / DEM ).

In the 2004 European Parliament election the EFA was reduced to four MEPs two of the SNP ( Ian Hudghton and Alyn Smith ), one of PC ( Jill Evans ) and one of the Republican Left of Catalonia ( ERC ; Bernat Joan i Mari, replaced at the mid-term by MEP Mikel Irujo of Basque EA ) plus two affiliate members ( Tatjana Ždanoka of For Human Rights in United Latvia ( PCTVL ) and László Tőkés, independent MEP and former member of the Democratic Alliance of Hungarians in Romania ( UMDR ).

His final film to date was Welcome to Mooseport ( 2004 ), a comedy with Ray Romano, in which Hackman portrayed a former President of the United States.

In the March 2004 elections, PASOK was defeated by New Democracy, led by Kostas Karamanlis, the nephew of the former President.

Roger Clemens, who had retired after the season with the New York Yankees, agreed to join former teammate Pettitte on the Astros for 2004.

* The USI Screaming Eagles, led by former Tennessee coach Bruce Pearl, won the 1995 Division II National Championship and were runners-up in 1994 and 2004.

Since the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, and more recently, the 2004 and 2007 enlargements of the European Union, the main waves of migration came from the former socialist countries of Eastern Europe ( especially Romania, Albania, Ukraine and Poland ).

On July 23, 2004, he was married in a handfasting ceremony to a former vice-president of the Covenant of Unitarian Universalist Pagans, Phaedra Heyman Bonewits.

Aerial approach to the former US Naval base on Johnston Atoll which closed on June 15, 2004.

Spader filed for divorce from Kheel in 2004 and,, has plans to marry his girlfriend ( and former Alien Hunter co-star ), Leslie Stefanson, with whom he had a child in August 2008.

Here, former rivals Brabham and Stirling Moss shake hands at the 2004 Goodwood Revival meeting.

Also in 2004, she portrayed a rising tennis player in the Wimbledon Championships opposite Paul Bettany, who played a fading former tennis star in the romantic comedy Wimbledon.

In 2004, French officials decided to build a satellite museum on the site of an abandoned coal pit in the former mining town of Lens to relieve the crowded Paris Louvre, increase total museum visits, and improve the industrial north's economy.

On October 20, 2004, Prime Minister Rafiq Hariri resigned ; the next day former Prime Minister and loyal supporter of Syria Omar Karami was appointed Prime Minister.

Hewitt spent much time in the late stages of 2004 working with his former coach and good friend, Roger Rasheed, on bulking up his physique.

The disputed amendments were signed by former oil minister Zeidane Ould Hmeida in February 2004 and March 2005.

* 2004 – The city of San Francisco, California begins issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples in response to a directive from Mayor Gavin Newsom.

Other games which feature graffiti include Bomb the World ( 2004 ), an online graffiti simulation created by graffiti artist Klark Kent where users can virtually paint trains at 20 locations worldwide, and Super Mario Sunshine ( 2002 ), in which the hero, Mario must clean the city of graffiti left by the villain, Bowser Jr. in a plotline which evokes the successes of the Anti-Graffiti Task Force of New York's Mayor Rudolph Giuliani ( a manifestation of " broken window theory ") or those of the " Graffiti Blasters " of Chicago's Mayor Richard M. Daley.

The London Plan, published by the Mayor of London in 2004, estimated that the population would reach 8. 1 million by 2016, and continue to rise thereafter.

* 2004 – Millennium Park, considered Chicago, Illinois's first and most ambitious early 21st century architectural project, is opened to the public by Mayor Richard M. Daley.

In 2004, Foster designed the tallest bridge in the world, the Millau Viaduct in southern France, with the Millau Mayor Jacques Godfrain stating ; " The architect, Norman Foster, gave us a model of art.

In 2004, one of the Unification Church pastors gave the official invocation to one of the formal events of Las Vegas chaired by the Mayor of Las Vegas.

On February 18, 2004 Daley said he would have " no problem " with Cook County issuing marriage licenses to gay couples, but stopped short of saying he would follow San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom by having the City of Chicago issue marriage licenses for same-sex couples, saying only the county clerk's office can issue marriage licenses.

In 2004, Rockville Mayor Larry Giammo announced plans to renovate the Rockville Town Square, including building new stores and housing and relocating the city's library.

Richmond's government changed in 2004 from a council-manager form of government to an at-large, popularly elected Mayor.

Mick Cornett serves as Mayor, having first been elected in 2004, re-elected in 2006 and then again in 2010.

Former Olympian Ron Clarke was elected Mayor of the Gold Coast in 2004.

Before the approval by voters of a 2004 charter amendment, the position of Mayor was called " Orange County Chairman ", which became an elected position in 1990.

* Barbara Bilger ( Republican )-1990 to 1992 and 2002 to 2004 ( Mayor in 2002 & 2004, Deputy Mayor in 1992 & 2003 )

* Ann Darby ( Republican )-2003 to 2005 ( Deputy Mayor in 2004 )

The current Cathedral City Mayor is Kathleen DeRosa, who was elected to her first term in 2004, second in 2006, third in 2008, and fourth in 2010.

Patchogue has experienced a renaissance under Mayor Paul Ponteri who was elected in 2004.

The honorable Mr. John S. Freeman served as Mayor of Anderson from 1999 to 2004.

The honorable Mrs. Gayle Sowell served as Mayor of Anderson from 2004 until present.

** Robert Chong 鐘富喜 / 钟富喜 ( Meixian, Guangdong ; born in Malaysia ; Hakka pronunciation: Tsung Foo Hee ), Mayor, Whitehorse, Victoria, 2001 – 2002, 2004

He has also appeared in the films Zoolander ( 2001 ), Mayor of the Sunset Strip ( 2004 ), Little Black Book ( 2004 ), The Game of Their Lives ( 2005 ) and How to Rob a Bank ( 2008 ).