Pape and Dufferin stations are the first slated for modernization under this project, and Islington will also be modernized under larger capital projects aimed at greater accessibility and reconstruction of bus loading platforms.
Al-ʿAqabah's harbour, somewhat improved by the British in World War II, was greatly modernized under independent Jordan; deepwater facilities were opened in 1961.
Among the historic buildings restored and redesigned or modernized under his supervision are Lewisohn Hall at Columbia University, the Schermerhorn Row block at the South Street Seaport, the Brooklyn Historical Society building, the National Lighthouse Museum on Staten Island and the Battery Maritime Building in Lower Manhattan.
Bush administration officials said the proposals sought to simplify and modernize regulations under the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938.
A second, he said, would be to persuade the military that it could modernize faster under civilian rule, when there would be less corruption.
As explained to me in Paris, President Nicolas Sarkozy now thinks that France will only "modernize itself" under foreign pressure, which signifies trying to match German performance.
They include Un soñador para un pueblo (1958; "A Dreamer for the Nation"), which deals with the failure to modernize Spain under Charles III, Las meninas (1960; "The Ladies-in-Waiting"), which is about the court painter Velázquez, and El concierto de San Ovidio (1962; The Concert at Saint Ovide), which is set in Paris during the French Revolution.
It would "issue a fully collateralized bond on the international capital markets" to raise 30-40 billion euros ($32-43 32-43 billionch "taking into account the present value of assets," which "be investaking modernintog accountthecturing the assets under its management".
After all, many benign impulses surely flourish under the frantic and gaudy surface of modernizing China — as the outpouring of compassion and material help for the victims of the earthquake in Sichuan shows.
But under a 2008 government decree aimed at modernizing the taxi fleet by requiring cabs older than 25 years to be retired, the "Pad" as it is known, is slowly going the way of New York City's Checker cabs.
