But as the economic model went bust in the 1970s, Puerto Rico has been unable to reinvent itself to address intensifying levels of corruption, violence, and poverty.
More seriously, modernization on an intensified level and on a world scale brings new social and material strains that may threaten the very growth and expansion on which modern society is founded.
The intensified level of conflict is also spurring new research that is challenging some long-held assumptions about bears, notably the idea that bear population is the key variable.
This is true if only because such power can always be wrested away from us, and knowing this is bound to bring an intensified level of panic into someone's decision-making process -- even a trained professional's.
The intensified level of injury was also apparent in morphological changes in lungs (Figure 5, frames D I).
In addition, in five of the 18 study centres a total of 30,000 study participants will take part in a magnetic resonance imaging examination programme, and all of these participants will also be offered the intensified Level 2 examinations.
By seeing how a text is made irrelevant, we turn the text into an alien object, and thereby bring to bear an intensified level of scrutiny.
And UV rays can even reflect off clouds' edges, intensifying the level of UV radiation reaching you.
They are also highly susceptible to frequent natural disasters such as earthquakes and hurricanes that affect the entire country at the same time, thereby intensifying the level of economic devastation.
Current WHO recommendations for retreatment regimens could lead to development of MDR TB or XDR TB in many instances because suggested retreatment regimens potentially amount to addition of 1 drug to a failing regimen, thereby intensifying the level of drug resistance.
