However, in October 2004, the Cuban government announced an end to this policy: from November US dollars would no longer be legal tender in Cuba, but would instead be exchanged for convertible pesos ( since April 2005 at the exchange rate of $ 1. 08 ) with a 10 % tax payable to the state on the exchange of US dollars cash — though not on other forms of exchange.

In the United Kingdom, DSG ( Dixons ), the largest retailer of domestic electronic equipment, reported that CRT models made up 80 – 90 % of the volume of televisions sold at Christmas 2004 and 15 – 20 % a year later, and that they were expected to be less than 5 % at the end of 2006.

Paul Hester joined The Finn Brothers on stage for three songs at their Palais Theatre show in Melbourne at the end of 2004.

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

The Lab and its partners concluded the 2006 – 07 field season in Arkansas at the end of April with no additional definitive evidence of ivory-bills to complement the data gathered in 2004 and 2005.

The GPL release of the Quake III engine's source code was moved from the end of 2004 to August 2005 as the engine was still being licensed to commercial customers who would otherwise be concerned over the sudden loss in value of their recent investment.

As of the end of 2004, they included:

But fighters were being disarmed ; in June 2004, a program to reintegrate the fighters into society began ; the economy recovered somewhat in 2004 ; by year's end, the funds for the re-integration program proved inadequate ; also by the end of 2004, more than 100, 000 Liberian fighters had been disarmed, and the disarmament program was ended.

note: unofficial exchange rates ranged in 2004 from 815 kyat / US dollar to nearly 970 kyat / US dollar, and by year end 2005, the unofficial exchange rate was 1, 075 kyat / US dollar ; data shown for 2003-05 are official exchange rates

After losing the conference championship in 2001 to the St. Louis Rams, in 2002 to the eventual Super Bowl Champions Tampa Bay Buccaneers and in 2003 to the Carolina Panthers, the Eagles advanced to Super Bowl XXXIX at the end of the 2004 season, where they lost to the New England Patriots, 24 – 21.

Slovakia ’ s total foreign debt was $ 23. 7 billion at the end of 2004, up $ 5. 4 billion from the 2003.

As part of the privatisation contract, Deutsche Telecom agreed to provide full digitalisation of the fixed line network by the end of December 2004.

To this end, in 2004, an $ 8. 3 million Coca-Cola bottling plant opened in Mogadishu, with investors hailing from various constituencies in Somalia.

After the end of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Gellar's next film was the 2004 horror film The Grudge, which was a success at the box office, grossing $ 187, 281, 115 worldwide.

* A customer focused definition is given by Hines ( 2004: p76 ) " Supply chain strategies require a total systems view of the linkages in the chain that work together efficiently to create customer satisfaction at the end point of delivery to the consumer.

At the end of the 2004 season SCCA dropped ProRally and ClubRally.

Round 11, 2004 saw Sydney end the Saints ' undefeated start to that season, winning by 17. 10 ( 112 ) to St Kilda's 11. 10 ( 76 ), before St Kilda retaliated with a 51-point thrashing in the semi-finals that ended Sydney's season on a low note.

At the end of 2004, 52 % of households ( 12. 6 million ) were reported to have access to the internet ( Source: Office for National Statistics Omnibus Survey ).

For example, by the end of September, the financial positions of Republican contenders in the cycle were worse than those of Democrats at the same point in the 2004 campaign.

AT & T Wireless launched UMTS services in the United States by the end of 2004 strictly using the existing 1900 MHz spectrum allocated for 2G PCS services.

Metzler kept her seat until the end of the year and Christoph Blocher succeeded her on 1 January 2004.

When the young entrepreneur Christoph Blocher was elected president of the Zürich SVP in 1977, he declared his intent to oversee significant change in the political line of the Zürich SVP, bringing an end to debates that aimed to open the party up to a wide array of opinions.

Orell Gessner Füssli was a bookshop in Zürich, Switzerland at the end of the 18th century, established by the successors of Christoph Froschauer.

The asp is perhaps most famous for its alleged role in Cleopatra's suicide ( some believe it to have been a horned viper ), though in 2010, German historian Christoph Schaefer and toxicologist Dietrich Mebs, after extensive study into the event, came to the conclusion that rather than enticing a venomous animal to bite her, Cleopatra actually used a mixture of hemlock, wolfsbane and opium to end her life.

At the end of the 17th century, Philipp Wilhelm Christoph von Nesselrode and his wife built a new house integrating just the chapel and the northern part of the original castle.

A man was standing in the open door of the lighted orderly room a few yards to Mike's left, but he, too, suddenly made up his mind and went racing to join the confused activity at the east end of the stockade.

Yet when, at war's end, the ex-Tory made the first move to resume correspondence, Jay wrote him from Paris, where he was negotiating the peace settlement:

and ( C ) to finance, for not more than three years beyond the end of said period, such activities as are required to correlate, coordinate, and round out the results of studies and research undertaken pursuant to this Act: Provided, That funds available in any one year for research and development may, subject to the approval of the Secretary of State to assure that such activities are consistent with the foreign policy objectives of the United States, be expended in cooperation with public or private agencies in foreign countries in the development of processes useful to the program in the United States: And provided further, That every such contract or agreement made with any public or private agency in a foreign country shall contain provisions effective to insure that the results or information developed in connection therewith shall be available without cost to the United States for the use of the United States throughout the world and for the use of the general public within the United States.

Every winter a kegful of this sauce was made and placed at the end of a row of four other kegs in the cellar, so that when its turn came, it was properly mellowed.

Spectra were also obtained from a sample in a spherical container which was made by blowing a bubble on the end of a capillary glass tube.

For example, one hebephrenic man used to annoy me, month after month, by saying, whenever I got up to leave and made my fairly steoreotyped comment that I would be seeing him on the following day, or whenever, `` You're welcome '', in a notably condescending fashion -- as though it were his due for me to thank him for the privilege of spending the hour with him, and he were thus pointing up my failure to utter a humbly grateful, `` thank you '' to him at the end of each session.

Picasso says that he himself had already made his first collage toward the end of 1911, when he glued a piece of imitation-caning oilcloth to a painting on canvas.

A man with a sketch pad in hand sat with a large pink woman in a small office at the end of a long, dim corridor and made pencil lines on paper and said, `` Is this more like it, Mrs. MacReady??

The announcement that the secrets of the Dreadnought had been stolen was made in Bow St. police court here at the end of a three day hearing.

Premier Khrushchev has made propaganda capital out of that fact and in the end got his summit meeting anyway.

A program of Lay Visitation Evangelism can end in dismal defeat with half the new members drifting away unless practical plans and strenuous efforts are made to keep them in the active fellowship.

There would be changes made, and Signor Raymond should understand that when the Pope died it was like the end of a regime in Rome.

* an attestation clause, usually a jurat, at the end certifying the affiant made oath and the date ; and

At the end of the novel, Grand says he is much happier ; he has written to Jeanne and made a fresh start on his book.

" In the Headingley Test, he made 334, reaching 309 * at the end of the first day, including a century before lunch.

* Independence Day, celebrates the day on which Pakistan was made an independent country based on border lines created by the British during the end of their rule of India in 1947.

Landing men on the Moon by the end of 1969 required the most sudden burst of technological creativity, and the largest commitment of resources ($ 24 billion ), ever made by any nation in peacetime.

They fasted or ate very little ; a statue of the god was made out of amaranth ( huautli ) seeds and honey, and at the end of the month, it was cut into small pieces so everybody could eat a little piece of the god.

Alexander III Monument at KinghornTowards the end of Alexander's reign, the death of all three of his children within a few years made the question of the succession one of pressing importance.

A permanent position became open at the end of his tenure, but the application Grothendieck submitted made it clear that he had no plans to continue his mathematical research.

3: 16 ), prophesied a future time, possibly the end of days, when the Ark will no longer be talked about or be made again:

English cultural influence ( reinforced at the end of the 19th century and beginnings of the 20th by British contacts with the Far East ) has also made the consumption of tea very common.

The protostomes were so named because it used to be thought that in their embryos the dent formed the mouth while the anus was formed later, at the opening made by the other end of the gut.

Sewing needles were special to the sewer and were custom made, often with a detailed end that had animal heads.

His attorney Bob Bennett stated that he only made the settlement so he could end the lawsuit for good and move on with his life.