Haven't modern tools for analytics and business intelligence transformed how most companies make decisions?
For all the romanticism of La Masia, its coaches aren't modern day alchemists.
" Wrote one: "I don't hate modern design, but the total mismatch between exterior and interior is disturbing.
The majority of couples in Zambia still don't use modern methods such as condoms, the pill, implants and injections.
But isn't it modern practice to retire at the usual age, or is a constitutional monarch as immutable as the pope?
Steven Murray, a Colorado Mesa University professor who has studied the history of sports, said the concept that inspired the bracket a single-elimination sporting competition with many rounds isn't a modern invention.
If he wasn't what the modern world wanted -- if he wasn't prepared to bend every principle or rule to appease all the people all the time -- then that's the world's problem rather than his.
Mr. SOSNIK: Romney, I think, really is an example, though, of what you don't do in modern politics to get ahead.
And some nations, notably Brazil and Senegal, which were handling Air France Flight 447, don't yet have modern oceanic air-traffic-control systems.
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But the most amazing assessment of Washington doesn't come from modern historians.
You had full control of the whole computer...that is something you don't have with any modern PC.
However I don't pretend that a modern instrument is a historic one.
In the meantime, Estillore tries to scrape out a living in the printing business, with 1960-era presses that can't compete with more modern machinery.
Gathering the essays for his new collection, "Discovering Freedom, " Mr. Balcerowicz realized that "you don't need to read modern economists" to understand what's happening today.
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And these kinds of sectarian and tribal fault lines are part of what we have to get beyond, because they don't work in a modern world.
You won't find anyone in modern politics arguing that there should be less transparency - or that moves to take public services online should be slowed down.
The notion of the warrior-hero who can carry battles single-handedly doesn't really jibe with modern warfare, and it's been a while since we had a military man as president.
Advocates for the same sex couples tried to make a very simple case that the state's 97-year old marriage law, which refers to husband and wife, doesn't live up to modern standards of equal protection under the law.
About 2.5 billion people don't have access to modern toilets, and this lack of access encourages the spread of diarrheal diseases, which are blamed for the deaths of 1.5 million children each year, according to the World Health Organization.
"The outside should be modern but I don't think the royal family would go for a highly modern interior, it would have to be traditional, " says the designer who thinks furnishing should be classic with a slight modern twist such as simple mouldings made out of wood.
The card isn't the same as a modern-day baseball card, which became common in the 1880s.
That doesn't work well in the modern day when calorie-dense foods are readily available.
But these sales aren't just about vintage and modern watches.
"These outcomes are all from babies who didn't benefit from the most modern respirators, the most modern technology, the most modern treatments, " said Dr Alan Fleischman, medical director of a US premature birth charity, March of Dimes.
We really hadn't got to grips with the modern game and how it was evolving.
Problem was, my ex was a known eccentric and didn't use communication tools of the modern age.
Fine in theory, but modern Conservatism can't afford to be quite so dull.
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