While both Putin and Medvedev spoke of the need to modernize and diversify the economy, Medvedev made modernization the keynote of his presidency.
Many western observers also overlooked how the Olympics were part of Putin's grand strategy to modernize Russia by locking it into international commitments that force it to produce results under global scrutiny.
A National Academy of Sciences panel is studying how to modernize crime statistics, new cooperation has been detected between FBI statisticians and BJS statisticians – and then there was that eyebrow-raising speech at Georgetown by Comey, the FBI director.
Santander has maintained a dividend of 0.60 euros per share, which last year was 50% more than its earnings per share.The hope is that Ms Botín's arrival might modernize the bank's corporate governance.
He also undertook programs to modernize agriculture.
Earnings from wool (which became the leading export in 1884), hides, and dried beef encouraged the British to invest in railroad building and also helped to modernize Montevideo notably in its public utilities and transportation system which thereby encouraged additional immigration.
1913 March 25 , 1997Roberto Sánchez Vilella, Puerto Rican politician who, as governor of Puerto Rico 1964-699), helped modernize the U.S. commonwealth (b. 1913--d. March 25 , 1997.
It was said to have prompted railroads to modernize and become more competitive, introducing the concept of the unit train, which employs about 100 cars to haul coal nonstop from mines to power plants.
Venezuela's economy has relied on earnings from the petroleum sector to modernize and diversify other economic sectors; thus "sembrando el petróleo" ("sowing the oil") has been a national slogan since the 1940s.
To modernize is to take everything, the bad with the good, and not to modernize is to play no part in the life of contemporary humanity.
Factors such as the escalating prices of new military fighters and declining defense budgets have forced most countries to modernize their existing aircraft in order to prolong their useful life until newer craft can be afforded.
