China, India and the Middle East are in the midst of exceptional economic booms and need cheap energy, which is largely subsidized by their governments, to keep growing and modernizing.
All this puts Shenhua the world's third-largest coal company, after Peabody Energy of St . Louisin the U.S. and Rio Tinto of Melbourne, Australia at the center of China's massive effort to keep industrializing and modernizing.
In interviews, agency officials have said the protections needed to be modernized to keep pace with developments in mobile apps, voice recognition, facial recognition and comprehensive online data collection by marketers.
In the 34 years of my career focused on food safety, I have seen -- again and again -- the need to modernize to keep up with the latest science and threats.
Still, British Woolworth, unwilling to go the way of its moribund American relative, keeps trying to modernize.
Now, young Indians are increasingly deciding that they can keep their culture alive by modernizing it.
Their ambitions, and the impending deadline, make the Pentagon's review crucial, because it would help determine the bottom line, as well as which missiles, bombers and submarines to keep, how much to spend modernizing them and the implications of a changing world where small states, too, can acquire nuclear arms.
Mr. Reyes Her? said that the company needed additional investment of $8 billion to $10 billion a year to keep up production, develop new reserves, expand its refining capacity and modernize its storage and transport network.
He succeeded Stuart Young to become was chief executive of Times Newspapers from 1971 to 1982, and waged a bitter dispute with print unions about modernizing technology that kept the company's flagship Times and Sunday Times papers off the streets for nearly a year.
Yet the regulatory agencies that monitor the system have not been modernized or restructured to keep pace, and their policies have lagged behind reality as well.
