In 2003, U. S. News and World Report ranked FYRE as the 23rd best first year program in the nation.

* Manpower: Abu Sayyaf forces in Basilan and in Zamboanga Peninsula were, by June 2003, believed to number less than 500, down from more than 1, 000 a year earlier.

In the year 2003, the canton of Aargau celebrated its 200th anniversary.

However, rapid technological advances and worldwide participation accelerated the completion date to 2003 ( making it a 13 year project ).

Until 2003 the Lower Houses were restricted to upper year students but with the double cohort of graduates from Ontario schools many of the rooms were transformed into doubles and now hold first years.

In June later that year, the African Union ( AU ) lifted sanctions against the country, which had been applied after the 2003 coup.

In 2003, Channel 4 awarded Teletext Ltd a ten year contract to run the channel's ancillary teletext service, named Teletext on 4.

Carson Palmer, the future star quarterback, was drafted in 2003, but did not play a snap that whole season, as Jon Kitna had a comeback year ( voted NFL Comeback Player of the Year ).

With Hampton out of town and Neagle injured much of the year, Jennings became the centerpiece of the Rockies ' pitching staff in 2003.

This date format originates from the custom of writing the date as ' the 8th day of November in the year of our Lord 2003 ' in western religious and legal documents, which at one time were the majority of documents created.

About 100 tonnes of dysprosium are produced worldwide each year, with 99 % of that total produced in China Dysprosium prices have climbed nearly twentyfold, from $ 7 per pound in 2003, to $ 130 a pound in late 2010.

For example, J. M. W. Topp collected data annually between 1993 – 2003 and found that on the average three new plant species arrived each year, mainly on Diego Garcia.

In 2003 GDP was estimated to have grown by 2 percent, a slight improvement over 2002, the last year for which firm figures are available, when GDP expanded by 1. 8 percent in real terms to about US $ 600 million.

The International Monetary Fund estimates that in 2003 ( the most recent year for which figures are available ) average inflation reached 23 percent.

The 2003 Berkeley report stated that in 2002 alone, " telephone calls worldwide on both landlines and mobile phones contained 17. 3 exabytes of new information if stored in digital form " and that " it would take 9. 25 exabytes of storage to hold all U. S. calls each year.

A GDP of $ 4 billion in fiscal year 2003 was recalculated by the IMF to $ 6. 1 billion, after adding proceeds from opium products.

The club remained competitive, however they could progress no further than the second week of the finals each year for the years of 2002, 2003, and 2004.

Fantasy sports continued to grow with a 2003 Fantasy Sports Trade Association survey showing 15 million people playing fantasy football and spending about $ 150 a year on average, making it a $ 1. 5 billion industry.

The Marlins have the distinction of winning a World Series championship every year they qualified for the postseason, doing so in 1997 and 2003 — both times as the National League wild card team.

In Australia, 6 – 11 year olds IQ, as measured by the Colored Progressive Matrices, has shown no increase from 1975 – 2003.

The same year France contributed to the toppling of the Taliban regime in Afghanistan, but it strongly rejected the 2003 invasion of Iraq, even threatening to veto in central coners in the US proposed resolution.

The military action of 2003 did little damage to Iraqi agriculture ; because of favorable weather conditions, in that year grain production was 22 percent higher than in 2002.

( See Japan general election, 2003 ) Likewise, that year, the LDP won the election, even though it suffered setbacks from the new opposition party, the liberal and social-democratic Democratic Party ( DPJ ).

In 2003, the percentage of Muslims in the Kashmir Valley was 95 % and those of Hindus 4 %; the same year, in Jammu, the percentage of Hindus was 66 % and those of Muslims 30 %.

That same year she starred in Mona Lisa Smile ( 2003 ).

Weeks ago he saw a business upturn in the second quarter of this year while his colleagues in the Cabinet were shaking their heads in disagreement.

A direct attack on the Danish lines failed but, later in the year, Alfred saw a means of obstructing the river so as to prevent the egress of the Danish ships.

The original Yankee Stadium opened in 1923 on 161st Street and River Avenue, a year that saw the Yankeees bring home their first of 27 World Series Championships.

A tumultuous year at the Bauhaus, 1922 also saw the move of Dutch painter Theo van Doesburg to Weimar to promote De Stijl (" The Style "), and a visit to the Bauhaus by Russian Constructivist artist and architect El Lissitzky.

On graduation he joined the 1st Battalion, The Royal Warwickshire Regiment in September 1908 as a second lieutenant, and first saw service later that year in India.

On completion of his tour of duty in India, Montgomery returned to Britain in June 1937 where he became commanding officer of the 9th Infantry Brigade with the temporary rank of brigadier, but that year saw great tragedy when his wife was bitten by an insect while on holiday in Burnham-on-Sea.

1880 saw the Great North Western Telegraph Company established to connect Ontario and Manitoba but within a year it was taken over by Western Union, leading briefly to that company's control of almost all telegraphy in Canada.

The year after saw the birth in Sudan of the National Liberation Front of Chad ( FROLINAT ), created to militarily oust Tombalbaye and the Southern dominance.

The period from 1946 to 1951 saw continuous full employment and steadily rising living standards, which increased by about 10 % each year.

" The year 1979 saw the Commodores score another Top Five ballad hit, " Sail On ", before reaching the top of the charts once again with another ballad, " Still ".

Overall, more than two million tourists visited Crete last year, and this increase in tourism is reflected on the number of hotel beds, rising by 53 % in the period between 1986 and 1991, when the rest of Greece saw increases of only 25 %.

Meanwhile, the year 1919 saw the start of the tenure of Bill Veeck, Sr. as team president.

The year also saw the programme's first two-hander, between Curly and Raquel Watts.

The same year saw the release of " Kung Fu Fighting ", performed by Carl Douglas and produced by Biddu, which reached # 1 in both the U. K. and U. S., and became the best-selling single of the year and one of the best-selling singles of all time with eleven million records sold worldwide, helping to popularize disco music to a great extent.

Visiting cities in Europe and North America between September 1995 and February the following year, the tour saw the return of Gabrels as Bowie's guitarist.

2002 saw the release of Heathen, and, during the second half of the year, the Heathen Tour.

The same year, the film of Leslie Thomas's 1966 comic novel The Virgin Soldiers saw Bowie make a brief appearance as an extra.

1167 saw the marriage of Eleanor's third daughter, Matilda, to Henry the Lion of Saxony ; Eleanor remained in England with her daughter for the year prior to Matilda's departure to Normandy in September.

The year 1954 saw two of Japan's most influential films released.

The year 2005 saw the emergence of The British Urban Film Festival, a timely addition to the film festival calendar which recognised the influence of Kidulthood on UK audiences and which consequently began to showcase a growing profile of films in a genre which previously was not otherwise regularly seen in the capital ’ s cinemas.

The year 410 also saw Honorius reply to a British plea for assistance against local barbarian incursions, called the ' Rescript of Honorius '.

The first year of the Revolution saw members of the Third Estate proclaiming the Tennis Court Oath in June, the assault on the Bastille in July, the passage of the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen in August, and an epic march on Versailles that forced the royal court back to Paris in October.

Promotion to the top tier of English football saw the club perform poorly, finishing seventeenth in their first year and eighteenth in their second.

The year 2005 saw the birth of an updated franchise law, " Measures for the Administration of Commercial Franchise ".