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To adapt a building or structure to current conditions, tastes, or usage, usually by remodeling.
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"We will come back after discussing practically necessary matters for connecting and modernizing railways of South and North Korea," the South's chief delegate told reporters before leaving for the talks.
"The negotiations regarding modernizing Kazakhstan taxi fleet which started last year is going to be put into action following the achievement of the Certificate EAC by IKCO; based on this contract 3000 sets of CNG-sipping Samand taxis will join this fleet," mentioned Saeid Tafazoli.
Modernizing Medicine said it expects the acquisition to increase its gastroenterology market share with the addition of gMed's electronic health record system, endoscopy report writer, practice management solution, patient portal, data analytics tool and revenue cycle management.
Summary: President Ben Ali received on Thursday Mr Hadj Gley, Minister of Communication Technologies who briefed him on the implementation of programs and measures with a view to modernizing and promoting the services of communication technologies.
Lufthansa, by modernizing the fleet, the new aircraft will bring further gains in efficiency as well as reduce fuel and operating costs.
The plan of taking control of society and the world, having an excuse to start a perpetual "War on Terror," starting the doctrine of pre-emptive war which would include Iraq and eventually Iran, and dismantling the Constitution and Bill of Rights through the Patriot Act and the Military Commissions Act--not to mention focusing on modernizing our military--just a coincidence?
Once established, Wells details how the influence of this new middle class in modernizing the South, i.e.
In reply to the request for information on modernizing old injection machines, we have done a great deal of work on this problem because more presses were produced during 1944-46 than in any other period in our history.
"WASA was retained by the various agencies because of our ability to assess the necessary improvements, our modernizing and renovation construction expertise and our extensive experience in architectural and engineering design."
In Mirei Shigemori: Modernizing The Japanese Garden, practicing landscape architect Christian Tschumi explores ten major Shigemori projects ranging from the checker-board garden of Tofukuji (1939) and the "Hidden Christian" dry landscape at Zuiho-in (1961), to the masterful stone settings at Matsuo Taisha (1975), all while utilizing a design/cultural analysis, garden plans, and a profusion of illustrative photographs taken by visual artist and photographer Markuz Wernli Saito.