Because these legacy systems are often critical in the operations of most enterprises, deploying the modernized system all at once introduces an unacceptable level of operational risk.

China needs a modernized political system to go along with its modernized economy, including a free press, real judicial independence and multiparty elections.

The H-6D featured various modernized systems and sports an enlarged radome with a Type 245 Kobalt I-band surveillance radar under the nose.

"If these new areas are not included in the modernized system," the report warned, "information for hundreds of thousands of permittees will not be included."

Federal law requires modernized systems - maybe with touch screens - by 2006, which means, as the board's executive director, John Ravitz, puts it, "Our backs are against the wall."

A modernized system is to be tested this year, with deployment expected next year.

The governor general refused to accept the memorandum but agreed to a government-supervised transformation of indirect rule into a modernized system of local government.

"What Europe needs is not modernization of missiles but a modernized system of security based on drastic reductions of troops and armaments," Mr. Shevardnadze said.

Identifying and eliminating these shortfalls is our top priority as we work to build a modernized and fully accessible system.

The bottom-line results deliver modernized systems that conform more effectively to current business practices and strategic requirements.