Investment fell, delaying modernization and further compromising French competitiveness.
It would delay modernization and ensure that more carbon is dumped into the atmosphere.
Still, there was the sentiment that it was better to allow Bulgaria and Romania to join to encourage the reformers rather than keep them out, which would delay modernization.
Delaying modernization once air pollution hits the public concern threshold is invariably penny-wise and pound foolish.
"The perception of good faith efforts by the nuclear weapons states on disarmament, on transparency, [whether that is] on reducing nuclear risks in general, or reducing the number of weapons and delaying modernization decisions — all those things matter," Sharon Squassoni, director of the Proliferation Prevention Program at the Center for Strategic & International Studies, told VICE News.
The Brazilian Air Force has acknowledged that a four-year bidding process to purchase 12 new fighter planes as part of a long-delayed modernization process has ended with none of the competing manufacturers having been chosen.
The departure of the technology official, Carole Post, was announced on Thursday, a day before Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg said the city would challenge a judge's order to release what is said to be a sharply critical consultant's report on an over-budget, much-delayed modernization of the city's emergency calls and dispatching system.
Neither the atrocity near Tiananmen Square and the worldwide collapse of Communist regimes in 1989 nor the reportedly tens of thousands of protests since then have much delayed China's economic modernization.
Meanwhile new deals like the Medium Multi-role Combat Aircraft program, won by Dassault Aviation Group of France, are still on the negotiation table, adding to unending delays in modernization efforts.
In China, analysts say a military modernization program for the People's Liberation Army is a delayed and essential upgrading after decades when the Communist Party subordinated military needs to civilian ones.
The works were delayed by the onset of World War II, but they were intensified in 1945 after modernization of the Sarajevo Ploče narrow gauge railway.
