The Environmental Protection Agency has said for years that some dirty old power plants and other factories are frozen in time by the 1977 Clean Air Act, because if they make even small modernizations, they must clean up to modern standards.
Both Spain and Venezuela later began extensive modernization programs to extend the life of their vehicles and to bring their tanks up to more modern standards.
We are just now beginning the dialogue on food standards modernization; this is the starting point, not the finish line!
In unifying the world, modernization establishes uniform standards, albeit higher ones in many cases than previously prevailed.
Based in Montreal, the group included A.M. Klein; A.J.M. Smith, whose Book of Canadian Poetry (1943) and other anthologies contributed greatly to the modernization of literary standards in Canada; Leo Kennedy and Francis Reginald Scottt; as well as two kindred spirits from Toronto, E.J. Pratt and Robert Finch.
Software updates focused on three key areas: (1) code modernization through coding standards (C99/C11), (2) code portability and maintainability through use of the GA PCS code generator, and (3) support of 64-bit platforms.
France's GIAT also offered to modernize Spain's AMX-30Es to AMX-30B2 standards, a modernization being applied to French AMX-30s.
As the educational system gradually improved and as modernization progressed and the standard of living increased, school enrollments soared.
In the context of the modernization of the Chilean standard for domestic gas facilities, the development of an engineering tool for designers and builders of natural draft chimneys installed in social buildings is aimed at improving quality and security, preventing multiple poisoning cases by inhalation of CO given off frequently in older facilities.
This is a five-year program of modernization that will alter Moslem standards of living, working, and producing, so that this section of North Africa will be like a sandy suburb of France itself.
