Hungary is a member of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development ( OECD ) since 1995, a member of the World Trade Organization ( WTO ) since 1996, and a member of the European Union since 2004.

Monaco did not appear in the list of these territories until 2004, when OECD became indignant regarding the Monegasque situation and denounced it in its last report, as well as Andorra, Liechtenstein, Liberia and the Marshall Islands, underlining its lack of co-operation as regards to financial information disclosure and availability.

According to the OECD ( www. oecd. org ) report, in 2004 Poles were one of the hardest working nations in Europe.

* Fair and Equitable Treatment Standard in International Investment Law OECD, 2004

* Migration for Employment, Paris: OECD Publications, 2004.

Contemporary discussions of corporate governance tend to refer to principles raised in three documents released since 1990: The Cadbury Report ( UK, 1992 ), the Principles of Corporate Governance ( OECD, 1998 and 2004 ), the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 ( US, 2002 ).

One of the most influential guidelines has been the OECD Principles of Corporate Governance — published in 1999 and revised in 2004.

* OECD ( 1999, 2004 ) Principles of Corporate Governance Paris: OECD )

" Other warnings about the UK housing market followed, including from the National Institute of Economic and Social Research in 2004 and the OECD in 2005.

The evaluation of PISA 2003 was published in two volumes: Learning for Tomorrow ’ s World: First Results from PISA 2003 ( OECD, 2004 ) and Problem Solving for Tomorrow ’ s World – First Measures of Cross-Curricular Competencies from PISA 2003 ( OECD, 2004d )

* OECD, The Desert Locust Outbreak in West Africa-Sept. 23, 2004

In a 2004 paper, Jouve used a different method of analysis and recovered the same result, showing that the " distinctive " features of P. kochi were age-related, and using mathematical comparison to show that the two forms are different growth stages of the same species.

By comparison, Taipei 101, built in 2004 in Taiwan, cost around the equivalent of US $ 1. 76 billion in 2005 dollars.

Bucharest's crime rate is rather low in comparison to other European capital cities, with the number of total offenses declining by 51 % between 2000 and 2004.

An international comparison of 2004 MRSA-attributable S. arueus rates in middle and high income countries released by the Center For Disease Dynamics, Economics, and Policy in showed that Iceland had the lowest rate of infection, and Romania had the highest at over 70 %.

A comparison and contrast of " longevity in antiquity " ( such as the Sumerian King List, the genealogies of Genesis, and the Persian Shahnameh ) with " longevity in historical times " ( common-era cases through twentieth-century news reports ) is elaborated in detail in Lucian Boia's 2004 book Forever Young: A Cultural History of Longevity from Antiquity to the Present and other sources.

A first mtDNA D-loop haplotype comparison between heath hen specimens and prairie-chickens ( Palkovacs et al., 2004 ) brought the unexpected result that all heath hens tested formed a group very distinct from mainland birds, being most similar genetically to Greater Prairie Chickens from Wisconsin.

" President Michael Miller received $ 838, 508 in pay and benefits for fiscal year 2004, which was reportedly out of line in comparison to other charity executives and placed him in the top one percent of American wage earners.

* Griffiths, Carole S .; Barrowclough, George F .; Groth, Jeff G. & Mertz, Lisa ( 2004 ): Phylogeny of the Falconidae ( Aves ): a comparison of the efficacy of morphological, mitochondrial, and nuclear data.

In 1980 and 1981 Saskatchewan was a net per capita contributor to the federal government with their peak in 1981 at a mere $ 514 in comparison to Alberta's peak of $ 12, 735 that same year, both values being 2004 inflation adjusted dollars.

A comparison of Unreal Engine 1, 2 and 3's rendering capabilities using the Malcolm model from Unreal Tournament, Unreal Tournament 2004, and Unreal Tournament 3 side-by-side.

According to an article published in 2004 " South Korea dispatched more than 12, 000 missionaries to over 160 countries in comparison to about 46, 000 American and 6, 000 British missionaries, according to missionary organizations in South Korea and the West ".

For international comparison, in 2004 the police in the United States reported 9, 326 gun homicides.

CERD responded in 2004, urging the Lebanese government to " take measures to ameliorate the situation of Palestinian refugees … and at a minimum to remove all legislative provisions and change policies that have a discriminatory effect on the Palestinian population in comparison with other non-citizens.

According to a 2004 comparison by YAERD, a U. S. organization that studies alcohol use among youth, Michigan and Alaska, whose dram shop laws are considerably narrower than MADD proposes, have drunk-driving fatality rates below the national average, while Illinois is above the national average despite having one of the broadest dram shop laws.

In 2004, for the 12th consecutive year, Fleishman-Hillard was ranked by clients of other agencies as having the industry's highest reputation for quality ; in comparison with the 37 firms measured in the survey, Fleishman-Hillard ranked first in brand awareness among clients of other agencies for the 3rd year in a row ( Thomas L Harris / Impulse Research Survey ).

* Siebert, L. Kimberly, P., and Pullinger, C. R, 2004, The voluminous Acajulta debris avalanche from Santa Ana Volcano, western El Salvador, and comparison with other Central American edifice-failure evens, in Rose, W. I.

* The Nero Digital AVC codec was pronounced the winner of the 2004 Doom9 codec comparison.

By comparison his 2004 Molson Indy Montreal qualifying time in the Champ Car World Series was 1: 20. 836.

In 2004, ValueClick acquired two search properties, Search123 and Simpli, and the price comparison web site PriceRunner.

By comparison, in May 2004 it was only the 17th Wikipedia by the number of articles.

In comparison, migration to and from Central and Eastern Europe has increased since 2004 with the accession to the European Union of eight Central and Eastern European states, since there is free movement of labour within the EU.

* Keeper Finders, by Paul Boutin, Slate, December 31, 2004 — A comparison of Google, Ask Jeeves, HotBot, MSN and Copernic desktop search tools.

* A detailed comparison of desktop search tools-dated 2004.

For comparison, during broadcast the channel proudly claims to have paid out close to one million euro in November 2004 alone.

In mid 2004 its employment reached over 50, 000 mainly female workers, marking the first time that manufacturing sector workers outnumbered government employees.

The ICBL has identified the following countries as manufacturing land mines as of August 2004.

From 1994 to 2004, manufacturing GDP grew at an average annual rate of 11. 2 %.

In September 2004 Oneida Limited announced that it would cease all U. S. manufacturing operations in the beginning of 2005, ending a 124 year tradition.

In 2004, 215, 000 Brooklyn residents worked in the services sector, while 27, 500 worked in manufacturing.

In December 2004, Toshiba quietly announced it would discontinue manufacturing traditional in-house cathode ray tube ( CRT ) televisions.

In 2004 Igloo announced that it was consolidating its corporate, distribution, and manufacturing options in Waller County.

Weber is still manufacturing today and celebrated its 100-year anniversary in 2004.

Average hourly earnings of production workers employed in manufacturing: $ 19. 45 ( 2004 )

Knife manufacturing was a major industry in Ellenville and Napanoch for over 100 years ; the Ulster Knife Company set up in the 1870s, eventually merging with Imperial Knife Company and Schrade Cutlery, finally becoming Imperial Schrade until its closing in 2004.

In 2004, GM and the United Auto Workers dissolved their unique labor contract for the Spring Hill manufacturing plant, allowing Saturn operations to be integrated with the rest of GM.

In Chris Phoenix and Eric Drexler's paper Safe Exponential Manufacturing, which was published in a 2004 issue of Nanotechnology, it was suggested that creating manufacturing systems with the ability to self-replicate by the use of their own energy sources would not be needed.

There was a disagreement between Amtrak and the manufacturing consortium over cost overruns and maintenance bills ; this issue was not settled until March 2004.

The Carlow facility stayed open until late 2004, at which time Trek transferred its European production to a manufacturing facility in Hartmannsdorf, Germany.

Since 2004, manufacturers have begun designing, manufacturing, importing, and selling already complete pit bikes.

In 2003 it added a manufacturing addition to the main Elbridge plant and added another in 2004.

The aim of the manufacturing park, which began in 2004, is to transform Mexicali into the world's next semiconductor manufacturing center.

At year-end 2004, Clayton operated 32 manufacturing plants in 12 states.

In 2004, the company changed its logo and began manufacturing media products for television and wireless networking.

In 2004, Thomson set up a joint venture ( TTE ) with China's TCL, giving to TCL all manufacturing of RCA and Thomson television and DVD products and making TCL the global leader in TV manufacturing ( Thomson still controlled the brands themselves and licensed them to TTE ).

* 1985-Protropin ( somatrem )-Supplementary growth hormone for children with growth hormone deficiency ( ceased manufacturing 2004 ).

The UAW's numbers of automobile union members are representative of the manufacturing sector: 1, 619, 000 active members in 1970, 1, 446, 000 in 1980, 952, 000 in 1990, 623, 000 in 2004, and 377, 000 in 2010 ( with far more retired than active members ).