More modernising came at Aquascutum, where creative director Joanna Sykes presented macs and cropped trenches coated with shiny PVC, and elegant satin palazzo pants came with sporty go-faster stripes down the legs.
Since his appointment last year he has worked to soften his image, but the choice still rankles with the many Saudis, including some senior princes, who would have preferred a more modernising figure.Most Saudis expect that their ruling family will, as it usually has, reach quiet consensus on whom to crown, assuming that King Abdullah and Prince Sultan depart in reasonably short order.
New policies currently under consideration would incentivise farmers to produce more, modernise their farms, increase crop yields, and expand cultivable areas.
EU countries will also have to spend more money modernising defence equipment, and to collaborate more on procurement.
"We've been told to become more efficient, to produce more, to modernise, to survive.
Is Green prepared to admit that he took money out of BHS and could have done more to modernise it?
Other universities are seeking to make themselves more efficient by modernising estates or to give areas, such as research and innovation, increased prominence on campus.
Tony Benn's politics were always within the traditions of the party's left-right divisions, a development of a trade union-socialist position, protectionist, anti-American and anti-nuclear, that stood in opposition to a more outward-looking, modernising centrism.
Compared with drug-control programmes in Bolivia and Peru, "there's a total lack of balance between stick and carrot," says Klaus Nyholm, the UNDCP's man in Bogota.At first sight, Mr Pastrana appears to have had more success in modernising the armed forces.
As a senior commission official points out, even if fishing trawlers are not actually destroyed, many are likely to find it uneconomic to continue under such conditions.Second, because the commission is also proposing that there should be no more subsidies for modernising fishing fleets.
"To pretend this is not a problem - 'oh this is part of a political campaign' - is a great mistake". And he believes "we should have spent much more money" on "modernising" cybersecurity to counter the threat.
