In any case, if I followed the discussion, and I'm not sure I did, the Chrysler becomes a symbol for the wreck that American-style dreams have made of Africa, usurping the village culture without effectively modernizing the continent.
After all, Britain, the Scandinavian countries and other parts of Europe experienced modernizing reforms without convulsions like the Terror and the Napoleonic wars.
But without improving, enhancing and modernizing the system, the millions of Americans who have these attributes will continue to be disqualified from even attempting a run.
"The Lafayette," Ari Benmosche said, "has to be modernized without being modern.
The problem, said N'Diaye Bah, Mali's tourism minister, is modernizing the town without wrecking its ambiance.
Mr. Caruana said that Gibraltar could be de-colonized by modernizing its Constitution, without changing British sovereignty.
The Bush administration today proposed changing air pollution rules to give utilities more leeway in modernizing power plants without also being required to improve their pollution-control equipment.
This bargain lasted all these years because oil money, or U.S. or Soviet aid, enabled many Arab-Muslim countries to survive without opening their economies or modernizing their education systems.
A1 Shift in Air Pollution Rules The Bush administration proposed changing air pollution rules to give utilities more leeway in modernizing power plants without having to improve pollution-control equipment.
Put that on the list of priorities with making our education better, our energy cleaner, care for our veterans better, and modernizing labor laws without destroying unions, I guess.
