"He pushed the industry in terms of modernizing, from seed to field to gin".
If Mr. Bauer's testing strategy works, the railroad should be running even better after he is gone, with its fleet modernized from one of the oldest in the nation to one of the newest.
Both were sent across the Atlantic to France after the war for the Paris Peace Conference of 1919, and were then transferred to the Pacific Fleet before being significantly modernized from 1929 to 1931.
Some aspired to more offbeat genres — children's stories, self-help guides for police leadership, biographies of criminals, tales of weird cold cases, and at least one planned to modernize stories from the Bible by interweaving them with incidents from police work.
This failure to modernize stems from a lack of political will among national governments, said Marcel de Haas, a security expert at Clingendael, the Netherlands Institute of International Relations.
"The challenge for us is how to modernize Medicare from a medical, acute care model to a comprehensive health care model emphasizing successful and healthy aging through health promotion and risk factor reduction," said Jeffrey Kang, chief clinical officer with the Health Care Financing Administration, which oversees Medicare.
The Swedish group Cultural Heritage Without Borders is advising the museum on plans to reconstruct and modernize using financing from the European Union and Unesco and other agencies.
An economy that the government has sought to modernize is reeling from the unrest, residents say, and critics warn that the government is sowing the seeds for more violence with the breadth of the killings, detentions and torture it has administered.
Japan borrowed from Germany to modernize its legal system and from Britain to reform its military and industry.
And "Eastern Standard Western Artistss in China," opening in January at Mass MoCA in North Adams, Mass., will present a view of modernizing China from the viewpoint of Western artists.
