Until the current global economic crisis, China, India, Russia, Brazil, and other rapidly developing countries were clearly improving the lot of their citizens, stepping up their diplomacy, in many cases modernizing their militaries, and, in general, exercising greater influence in the world.
But the legal pratfalls in the Simpson case helped modernize L.A. County's' criminal justice infrastructure and offered some pointed lessons for prosecutors, police, criminalists and judges.
While the American government has been occupied in Mesopotamia, and our European allies continue to starve their defense programs, Asian militaries — in particular those of China, India, Japan and South Korea — have been quietly modernizing and in some cases enlarging.
The ensuing legal pratfalls the Simpson case exposed helped modernize the criminal justice infrastructure of Los Angeles County and offered some pointed lessons for prosecutors, police, criminalists and judges.
"Despite high vacancy rates -- or because of them, in some cases -- some owners are investing in modernizing their buildings or in repositioning them as higher-quality properties," Mr. Frank said.
And in the most expensive case yet, the Poway Unified School District borrowed $105 million to finish modernizing older school buildings, which local property owners will be paying off until four decades from now at an eventual cost of nearly $1 billion.
Tradable goods manufacturing is essential to modernizing an economy, as seen from the successful development cases of Japan, Taiwan, Korea and Singapore.
In each case there has been an explosive clash between the rapidly modernizing city and the embattled, conservative village culture upon which the capital increasingly encroaches.
Furthermore, in many cases we can even modernize legacy applications in place – especially if they're running on the mainframe.
Set in October 2015, this case provides a detailed look at Nigeria's poultry value chain and the complexities of modernizing a traditional and largely informal industry.
The first Russia is modernizing.
