"This is signaling to India that if you are modernizing your weaponry, then we are also not lagging behind.
"If they modernize, then they trigger a new source review that creates millions and millions of dollars in new investments.
If we had to read Shakespeare as spelled in the First Folio of 1623, his plays would be more difficult, and if we modernized the Middle English spelling of Chaucer his work would be much more accessible.
The suits used a once-obscure provision of the Clean Air Act, known as new source review, which says that power plants, refineries and other industrial boilers had to install pollution controls if they modernized in ways that increased emissions generally.
President Bush must try to make Mr. Jiang realize that this process will go more smoothly if China modernizes not only its financial system and highway network, but also its propaganda apparatus, so that it promotes international harmony rather than hatred.
A recent World Bank report said Africa's agricultural sector could become a $1 trillion industry by 2030 if farmers modernized their practices and had better access to financing, new technology, irrigation and fertilizers.
But if this is supposed to be Mr. Gandhi's moment, it is unclear that he wants to seize it or what he will do with it — or if a chaotically changing, fitfully modernizing India is still enthralled with the Gandhi mystique.
We need to get serious about renewing and modernizing public education if our children are to thrive in this increasingly competitive world.
"If he is serious about modernizing Illinois government and saving money for taxpayers, then automatic voter registration is an excellent way to do both".
But it is now regarded not only as an asset, but if badly managed, an obstacle to modernizing.
