The last major modernization project was in 1982, when the state spent $100 million to add a new terminal and concourse and other improvements.
Land reclamation on water bodies has been a common practice in Japan in the last century due to modernization, the growth of population, the geographical characteristics of the Japanese archipelago and the scarcity of available land (85% of the country is composed by woods and mountains).
Starting in 1937, Andrea Doria underwent an extensive modernization, which lasted until 1940.
She was taken into the Kaiserliche Werft shipyard in Kiel for an extensive modernization that lasted until 1910.
Upon arriving in Kiel in June 1909, she was decommissioned and entered a lengthy modernization that lasted until 1914.
After returning to Germany in 1899, she went into drydock at the Imperial Dockyard in Wilhelmshaven for modernization; work lasted until 1902.
Since then, there have been a number of reductions due to modernizations (the last standing places went away in 1998 99 in response to UEFA regulations which forbids standing at matches in the UEFA competition), countered to some extent by expansions.
Panetta's last place to cut is "modernization," meaning hardware.
It is now refurbishing and modernizing all 68 of them as the last major step in the building's $550 million modernization project.
To that end, the concept of smart grid has been introduced at the last decades in order to accomplish the modernization of the power grid while incorporating various capabilities such as advanced metering, monitoring and self-healing to the systems.
But this is why last year Congress passed the most significant modernization of patent law in 50 years.
