1.   And consumers need banks to help modernize a system of handling money that remains primitive by the standards of the United States or Western Europe.

2.   Asked how long it would take to modernize the system, Mueller said that the upgrade would take two or three years to complete.

3.   But GlobalPC officials said their own engineers have modernized the system.

4.   But the cable industry has generally been slow to invest in ambitious and expensive efforts to modernize their systems to support such interactive offerings.

5.   Cable television shares rallied on optimism that a push by companies to modernize their systems and add new services will drive demand and send profits higher.

6.   Cellular-telephone systems are being built even in some of the most remote areas of the world, and ordinary phone systems are being modernized as well.

7.   Modernizing these systems and linking them all together is the goal of the current multi-billion-dollar effort.

8.   They also understand that foreigners are helping to modernize the system.

9.   A committee named by Rasheed a few years ago recently came up with proposals to modernize the system.

10.   And we will also modernize the system to allow younger workers to put a part of their payroll tax into personal retirement accounts.