And so, of course, there is a set of tools that are well understood, and there is always, in any time period, readiness.
The problem for Malaysia is that the rival parties have been at such a high pitch of combat-readiness for such a long time that the resulting partisanship is poisoning national politics.
The move "will give us time to ensure the readiness of all our equipment and people", said Marvin Odum of Shell Oil.
The time it has to stabilize readiness while it modernizes for the near and long term future is quickly diminishing.
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Moreover, I am asserting my readiness to submit, at a later time, an (additional) request to change any other clauses referred to me by the constitutional committee, according to the needs and justifications it sees fit.
At the same time, the Saudi government has shown increasing readiness to embrace reform.
Time and again, we have learned that our readiness measures are unrealistic or fail to anticipate real-world demands.
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"The movement toward kindergarten readiness assessment has been a little bit of a challenge for the field over time, in that people are very concerned that it's going to reek of the kinds of assessments that are injurious to very, very young children, " said Sharon Lynn Kagan, a professor at Teachers College at Columbia University who specializes in policies and standards for young children.
The new capital equipment takes a certain amount of time (about two years in all three cases) to reach production readiness.
Certainly in the financial markets, the view is that the ECB's readiness in some circumstances to intervene in the market for government debt has bought some time, and it's up to those governments to put the time that has been bought for them to good use.
This high level of readiness is perhaps more important at NetJets, which has jets in the air at any time, than at some other companies.
At the time, Sanchez noted that the Army was struggling to maintain even those relatively low readiness rates and warned he could not ensure sustained combat operations could continue if the problem was not fixed.
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