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.

* Zapata: El sueño de un héroe ( 2004 ) director, writer

* 1934 – Dimitris Papamichael, Greek actor and director ( d. 2004 )

* 2004 – José Giovanni, French-Swiss writer and director ( b. 1923 )

More problematic is that between 2004 and 2006 he was an executive director of a lobbying company Dutko Worldwide Prague.

In 2004, Science Fiction magazine Strange Horizons named him the 2nd greatest director in the history of the genre, ahead of better known directors such as Steven Spielberg, James Cameron, Jean-Luc Godard and Ridley Scott.

Yoji Yamada, director of the Otoko wa Tsurai yo series, made a trilogy of acclaimed revisionist samurai films, 2002's Twilight Samurai, followed by The Hidden Blade in 2004 and Love and Honor in 2006.

In 2004, Wray was approached by director Peter Jackson to appear in a small cameo for the 2005 remake of King Kong.

In 2004 director Robert Greenwald produced the documentary film Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch's War on Journalism, which argues that Fox News has a conservative bias.

* 2004 – Claude Ryan, Canadian newspaper director and politician ( b. 1925 )

* 1915 – Michael Relph, British film producer and director ( d. 2004 )

It was founded in 2004 by the singer and director Harry Dunstan.

* 1934 – Vijay Anand, Indian filmmaker and director ( d. 2004 )

* 1957 – Theo van Gogh, Dutch director ( d. 2004 )

In 2004, Indian director Vishal Bharadwaj directed his own adaptation to Macbeth, titled Maqbool.

In 2004, Brando signed with Tunisian film director Ridha Behion and began pre-production on a project to be titled Brando and Brando.

* 1922 – Russ Meyer, American film director and producer ( d. 2004 )

* 2004 – Philippe de Broca, French film director ( b. 1933 )

* Hratch Semerjian ( acting director ), 2004 – 2005

* 1937 – Ron O ' Neal, American actor, director, and screenwriter ( d. 2004 )

* 2004 – Russ Meyer, American director ( b. 1922 )

* July 23 – Theo van Gogh, Dutch film director ( d. 2004 )

* April 16 – Peter Ustinov, English actor and director ( died 2004 )

** Russ Meyer, American film director and producer ( d. 2004 )

In 2004, Viola began work on a new production of Richard Wagner's opera Tristan und Isolde, a collaboration with director Peter Sellars, conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen and executive producer Kira Perov.

In director David O. Russell's I Heart Huckabees ( also 2004 ), Hoffman appeared opposite Lily Tomlin as an existential detective team member.