Another part of the emir's modernization drive was to expand his country's military capacity, officials said.

But British Telecom, in a modernization drive, has so far replaced 20,000 of 50,000 with a new design.

Since then, the double helix has replaced the atom as the symbol of the modernization drive.

And China can ill afford to lose the intellectual energies of the educated elite on whom it depends for its modernization drive.

Harry Figgie 3d is the vice chairman and chief architect of the modernization drive.

The Balkan crisis will accelerate China's military modernization drive, it said.

In response, the administration began to implement a modernization drive.

His modernization drive was built on the theory that economic reform had to be combined with political discipline.

He became chief executive in 1985, one year before the modernization drive began.

In fact, it embarked on the largest industrial modernization drive in the history of the world.