The development of the tourism sector in Algeria had previously been hampered by a lack of facilities, but since 2004 a broad tourism development strategy has been implemented resulting in many hotels of a high modern standard being built.

During grand jury testimony in December 2003 – which was illegally leaked to the San Francisco Chronicle and published in December 2004 – Giambi allegedly admitted to using many different steroids, including fertility drugs ( which could account for his declining health in the past few years ).

The removal of beef from the recipe in 2004 was not without criticism, with many complaining that the new variant did not taste the same and had a different mouth feel.

In 2004, the government discovered that many of the soldiers it was paying did not exist and that there were only about 19, 000 soldiers in the army, as opposed to the 24, 000 that had been previously believed.

After many buffetings and, finally, after the catastrophic results of the June European Parliament election, 2004 Špidla resigned after a revolt in his own party and the government was reshuffled on the same basis.

* Fox News: Until 2004, the CRTC's apparent reluctance to grant a digital licence to Fox News under the same policy which made it difficult for RAI to enter the country-same-genre competition from foreign services-had angered many conservative Canadians, who believed the network was deliberately being kept out due to its perceived conservative bias, particularly given the long-standing availability of services such as CNN and BBC World in Canada.

Church official Philip G. Davis noted that the administration and Colonnade buildings had not been fully used for many years and that vacancy increased after staff reductions in 2004.

* 2004 – A 9. 3 magnitude earthquake creates a tsunami causing devastation in Sri Lanka, India, Indonesia, Thailand, Malaysia, the Maldives and many other areas around the rim of the Indian Ocean, killing over 230, 000 people including over 1700 on a moving train.

Some researchers such as Brengelman ( 1970 ), have suggested that, in addition to this marking of word origin, these spellings indicate a more formal level of style or register in a given text, although Rollins ( 2004 ) finds this point to be exaggerated as there would be many exceptions where a word with one of these spellings, such as ⟨ ph ⟩ for ( like telephone ), could occur in an informal text.

Through the end of 2004, 18, 761 warrants were granted, while just five were rejected ( many sources say four ).

As a consequence Europe's economic integration deepened, the continent became depolarised and the European Union expanded to include many of the formerly communist European countries, in 2004 and 2007.

In North America in 2004, many endocrinologists prefer the term Flexible Insulin Therapy ( FIT ) to " intensive therapy " and use it to refer to any method of replacing insulin that attempts to mimic the pattern of small continuous basal insulin secretion of a working pancreas combined with larger insulin secretions at mealtimes.

In 2004 he caused a media sensation when he broke with many fellow environmentalists by pronouncing that " only nuclear power can now halt global warming ".

Picked by many to win their division in 2004 after faring well in the free agent market, the Royals got off to a disappointing start and by late June were back in a rebuilding mode, releasing veteran reliever Curtis Leskanic and trading veteran reliever Jason Grimsley and superstar center fielder Carlos Beltrán for prospects, all within a week of each other.

On January 16, 2004, Selig announced that his ownership group was putting the team up for sale, to the great relief of many fans who were unhappy with the team's lackluster performance and poor management by his daughter, Wendy Selig-Prieb, over the previous decade.

He holds many of the formula's driver records, including most championships, race victories, fastest laps, pole positions, points scored and most races won in a single season – 13 in 2004.

Beginning in 2004, she favored what many consider to be the Democratic Party's position, and urged President George W. Bush to support federally funded embryonic stem cell research in the hope that this science could lead to a cure for Alzheimer's disease.

During this second term of office on the Commission, he was responsible for introducing new staff regulations for EU officials, a significant feature of which was substantial salary cuts for everyone employed after 1 May 2004, reduced pension prospects for many others, and gradually worsening employment conditions.

Historical studies reveal that policing agents have undertaken a variety of cross-border police missions for many years ( Deflem, 2004 ).

Glamour Women of the Year 2001, 2001 SAIS-Novartis International Journalism Award from Johns Hopkins University, Certificate of Special Congressional Recognition from the U. S. Congress, 2004, Honorary Doctorate from University of Antwerp ( Belgium ) for outstanding non-academic achievements, as well as many other awards.

A February 2005 report from the United Nations ' High Commissioner for Human Rights mentioned that, during 2004, " FARC-EP continued to commit grave breaches human rights such as murders of protected persons, torture and hostage-taking, which affected many civilians, including women, returnees, boys and girls, and ethnic groups.

In 1998 the number of radio receivers in the country was totaled in 7, 100, 000, on average one per inhabitant ; in 2004 there were 113 FM and 4 AM radio stations in the country, without counting many other low power stations.

In 2004, the band created one of the first artist-owned online music stores, at which customers could purchase and download MP3 copies of their music, both new releases and many previously released albums.

Mbeki has sometimes been characterised as remote and academic, although in his second campaign for Presidency in 2004, many observers described him as finally relaxing into a more traditional campaign mode, sometimes dancing at events and even kissing babies.

In 2004, a documentary team for television channel Five, using special effects experts from movies, tried to make people believe there was something in the loch.

In 2004 the IEEE Computer Society produced the SWEBOK, which has been published as ISO / IEC Technical Report 19759: 2004, describing the body of knowledge that they believe should be mastered by a graduate software engineer with four years of experience.

" I really believe I'm hearing from the Lord it's going to be like a blowout election in 2004.

Near the end of the season, with a playoff-push faltering, Weisbrod fired Davis after leading Davis to believe he was going to be the team's head coach for the entire 2004 – 05 NBA season.

" Maathai subsequently issued a written statement in December 2004: " I neither say nor believe that the virus was developed by white people or white powers in order to destroy the African people.

There is a cirlce of experts who believe that the start of the Mexican Drug War did not began in 2006 ( when Felipe Calderón sent troops to Michoacán to stop the increasing violence ), but in 2004 in the border city of Nuevo Laredo, when the Gulf Cartel and Los Zetas fought off the Sinaloa Cartel and Los Negros.

" Writing in 2004, authors Michael Shermer and Dennis McFarland saw Rudolph's story as an example of " religious extremism in America ," warning that the phenomenon he represented was " particularly potent when gathered together under the umbrella of militia groups ," whom they believe to have protected Rudolph while he was a fugitive.

Some authorities have suggested that the family originated some 174 ± 32 Ma, while others ( see Li et al. 2004, references ) do not believe that they are older than the mid-Cretaceous.

Vandross appeared briefly on videotape at the 2004 Grammy Awards to accept his Song of the Year Award, where he said, " When I say goodbye it's never for long because I believe in the power of love ".

A 2004 YouGov poll found that 44 percent of UK citizens believe in God, while 35 percent do not.

The 9 / 11 Commission Report evaluated such so-called " Wag the Dog " theories ( the strikes being motivated to deflect attention from domestic, political troubles ), and found no reason to believe them, nor disbelieve the testimony and assertions of former President Clinton, former Vice President Gore, CIA Chief Tenet, nor former security advisors Berger and Clarke that the destruction of Al Shifa was still, as of 2004, a justifible national security target.

Both Nader and Camejo said the main reason they ran in the 2004 election was because there were no other national candidates demanding an immediate withdrawal of American troops from what they believe is an immoral and unconstitutionally pursued War in Iraq ( though Green David Cobb, Libertarian Michael Badnarik, Constitution Party candidate Michael Peroutka, Socialist Party USA candidate Walt Brown and Socialist Workers Party candidate Róger Calero also opposed the war to varying degrees.

The All Blacks have won about 12 % more matches than South Africa because of a run of Springbok losses between 1998 and 2004, that many believe to be caused by the lack of a reliable goal kicker during this period.

Pamela McCorduck, in 2004: " As I write, AI enjoys a Neat hegemony, people who believe that machine intelligence, at least, is best expressed in logical, even mathematical terms.

He testified on January 28, 2004 that “ t turns out that we were all wrong ” and “ I believe that the effort that has been directed to this point has been sufficiently intense that it is highly unlikely that there were large stockpiles of deployed, militarized chemical weapons there .” However, Kay defended the Bush administration, saying that even if Iraq did not have weapons stockpiles, this did not mean the nation wasn't dangerous.

On November 24, 2004, the school issued a press release stating that it planned to remove Pickens ' name from the T. Boone Pickens College of Business after university officials came to believe he had not completed pledges he made to the university.

According to linguist Roger Blench, as of 2004, all specialists in Niger – Congo languages believe the languages to have a common origin, rather than merely constituting a typological classification, for reasons including their shared noun-class system, their shared verbal extensions and their shared basic lexicon.

He endorsed General Wesley Clark ( D-Arkansas ) in the 2004 Democratic presidential primaries, but had U. S. Senator John Kerry ( D-Massachusetts ), the eventual nominee, actually defeated incumbent U. S. President George W. Bush ( R ) in the 2004 general election, many experts believe that Hodges would have been a leading contender for U. S. Secretary of Education.

In testimony before the Senate committee on foreign relations on May 19, 2004, he stated regarding the situation in Iraq, " I believe we are absolutely on the brink of failure.

Vernengo ( 2004 ) has suggested that the sine qua non of the dependency relationship is not the difference in technological sophistication, as traditional dependency theorists believe, but rather the difference in financial strength between core and peripheral countries – particularly the inability of peripheral countries to borrow in their own currency.

In a June 2004 interview with the Port Moresby newspaper The National, he stated " Even to this day, I believe strongly as a professional military officer that there was no military solution to bring an end to the civil war on Bougainville.

In 2004 molecular studies demonstrated that they are a separate phylum, although their position in the tree of life is contentious ; most researchers believe them to be basal among the Bilateria, slightly more derived than the cnidaria.