If you're not sure you're ready to make a lengthy time commitment, the Peace Corps gives you decide.

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To make sure that the headphones are ready for use at any time, they have been fitted with a 3.5mm stereo jack, and the nominal impedance has been reduced for optimum connection to mobile players.

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He said that it was for the parties to decide when the time is right, but the government will be ready to make the transfer of powers next May "as envisaged in the St Andrews Agreement".

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Bring in social media tools and you have a vocal and ready consumer base willing and confident to discuss, debate, and make choices in real time with you.

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In my last year of active duty, I volunteered for Clean Cities Atlanta and the City of Atlanta's Mayor's Office of Sustainability to help make Atlanta Electric-Vehicle (EV) ready -- and ended up working as a full time administrator on a Department of Energy EV Community Readiness Project with the Center for Transportation and the Environment.

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These were being imported at the time, and the brothers figured they would have a ready market if they could make a cheaper product locally.

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Some public-health experts talk of changing an environment where the worst choices are the easiest to make, especially for those without the time and money to seek out better ones supermarkets crammed with ready meals, happy hours in pubs, roads too dangerous for children to walk to school.

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It makes an interesting contrast with the last time major fires threatened Australian homes and lives in 2009, when researchers and others were ready to make a more direct link with climate change.

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The band stopped touring in 2007, in part, to make this album and now, for the first time in almost three years, it's finally ready to take to the stage to present its new work.

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