In the past, France's Gaullist president, Jacques Chirac, has quickly dismissed any need for modernizing the Constitution, saying the current political system works just fine.
There would be every reason, prior to any IPO, for fully modernizing Chicago's street metering.
He will be responsible for the maintenance and development of the nation's nuclear weapons stockpile, as well as for modernizing the nation's electrical power delivery system.
The risk that money spent on personnel will not be available for important new technology and for modernizing the current arsenal must be weighed against those.
The fiscal plan has drastically reduced the amount of surplus dollars available to develop the kind of advanced weaponry the administration desires, not only for its missile shield but also for modernizing conventional forces.
So much for the "modernizing" that Clinton had bragged about.
What he's accomplished: The 2009 stimulus included billions of dollars for infrastructure projects, including $27.5 billion for highways and bridges, $9.3 billion for high-speed rail and Amtrak, and $11 billion for modernizing the electric grid.
What he's accomplished: The 2009 stimulus included billions of dollars for infrastructure projects, including $27.5 billion for highways and bridges, $9.3 billion for high-speed rail and Amtrak, and eleven billion dollars for modernizing the electric grid.
Both call for $125 million to finance food safety activities; $100 million for medical product and drug safety activities; $40 million for modernizing F.D.A.'s science and work force; and $10 million to upgrade agency facilities and laboratories.
There are three broad arguments for modernizing the ways in which human resources for health are managed: the central role of the workforce in the health sector; the various challenges thrown up by health system reforms; the need to anticipate the effect on the health workforce (and consequently on service provision) arising from various macroscopic social trends impinging on health systems.
