"He pushed the industry in terms of modernizing, from seed to field to gin".
Moreover, this is equally true across Europe and in virtually every country as they modernize, from Brazil to Turkey.
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.
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.
"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.
Adidas modernized its basketball shoe from the 1980s, offering its M Attitude in metallic gold with a cutout pattern and pops of neon orange.
Mr. Tabor modernized the business, shifting from paper to laptops and smartphones, and expanded into doing valuations for insurance companies and serving as an engineering expert in litigation.
The Environmental Protection Agency said the changes, to what is called the New Source Review program, would eliminate "perverse" effects that kept antiquated plants from being modernized.
