At a news conference in Tallahassee, Mr. Crist said the measure would create a framework for future rail projects, modernize travel and energize Florida's economy.
Cyrus R. Vance Jr., the Manhattan district attorney, said the money would help lower crime in public housing projects, modernize courtroom technology, increase cybercrime investigative capabilities and add programs to help keep children out of the criminal justice system.
I wrote ( "Middle Class Bailout: Celebrating Harry Hopkins' 120th Birthday With 4 Million Jobs by August 17th , March 11 , 2010) that the President should celebrate Harry Hopkins' birthday on August 17th by announcing the hiring of the 4 millionth worker under a new Works Progress Administration, with projects modernized for the new economy.
Having lived in Paris as it rebuilt itself into a city of broad boulevards and roundabouts, Ismail embarked on a similar project of modernizing Cairo during the 1860s.
The City Council said Monday that it would investigate cost overruns and delays in the Bloomberg administration's project of modernizing the personnel system for the municipal work force.
There was general disenchantment with the project of "modernizing" the new states that had emerged after World War II, and many American anthropologists began to turn away from the social sciences.
Even with the ministry's budget falling every year of his tenure, he said, it has been able to complete important projects, like modernizing the facilities at more than 100 publicly accessible ancient sites.
In a speech in June, Mr. Putin suggested the Kremlin would try to prime the economy with government spending by dipping into about $171 billion in reserves in sovereign wealth funds to finance infrastructure projects like modernizing the trans-Siberian railway.
While the project to modernize the main file-keeping computer has encountered serious problems, other technology projects have worked, including a system developed by Computer Sciences that tracks the status of refunds and quickly routes calls from taxpayers to appropriate people to answer questions.
Supporters of the plan said the project would modernize El Paso and revitalize its economy.
A second project will modernize the signal equipment on most of the lettered lines, so antiquated that it cannot even be tied into computers.
