Ask PricewaterhouseCoopers, a firm of accountants, which has devised a barometer of readiness.
The various emerging economies are in different states of readiness, but the cumulative impact of all this will be enormous.
Though all actions are ultimately contingent upon support from the Government, the Action Plan will help establish a state of readiness for development partners.
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.
Years of spending to achieve high rates of readiness are squandered.
Redmond said the agency still is maintaining its current levels of readiness in neighboring countries for any outflow from Iraq, where continuing insecurity and the fragile religious and ethnic tensions could result in new displacement.
It is noteworthy that just today, U.S. officials have indicated that Soviet forces in East Germany have been placed in a higher state of readiness, but aver that this action appears to be of a defensive character.
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The sight of him standing there with his sleeves pushed up and his cloth over his shoulder and his look of readiness all this made me smile, and the smile that came back to me seemed to stream out of the glass and into my arms, my chest, my face, my blood.
In terms of college readiness, 28% of those who took the test did not meet any of the four ACT readiness benchmarks in English, math, reading and science.
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With millions of military spouses, parents and children sacrificing as well, the readiness of our Armed Forces depends on the readiness of our military families.
Military leaders have warned of impaired readiness of U.S. forces.
But, of course, that -- I think in the beginning, of course the concern and the readiness of the country will be another issue that we can work parallely, by the way, by using, like the capacity-building and also the readiness of the things.
Mr Koizumi will soon have been in office for a year and there is little sign of a readiness to confront the longstanding troubles of the banking sector.
"Additionally coalition forces will realign battle space as necessary based on the composition of the coalition, the readiness of the Iraqi security forces and the threat situation, " Matern said.
Mr Brewer takes care not to disguise the local communal nature of much of the violence nor the readiness of some Greek leaders to make shifting local alliances against their co-religionists and fellow countrymen.
Following the success of the communication test exercise of 10 August 2011 involving 31 National Tsunami Warning Focal Points from the region, a full-scale exercise named NEAMWave12 is planned in the fourth quarter of 2012 to test the readiness of the system and of the Member States.
Do you maintain a California base in a state of constant readiness for your return?
Children of all ages build empathy and a storehouse of emotional readiness through vicarious experiences gained while reading.
Even so, the market recovery means we are holding our own, if not exactly roaring ahead, in terms of retirement readiness.
With Labor just one seat away from losing its majority, war is imminent, and he is therefore in a state of maximum readiness.
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I've arrived for the ride in varying degrees of physical readiness.
In terms of our readiness for self-sacrifice, we have no equals.
"Deterring irresponsible use of alcohol is essential to the readiness of our fleet and ensuring the health and safety of our service members and units, " Adm.
Pending the outcome of a series of flight readiness meetings in the coming weeks, this successful flight sets the stage for the next Soyuz launch, planned for mid-November.
These actions more likely reveal a failure to realize just how dire the Army modernization needs are and a lack of understanding of how readiness and modernization interrelate.
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Whether your talent leaves to achieve their aspirations elsewhere or your talent stays but with unlocked potential, the result is lower levels of productivity, engagement, and lack of talent readiness for the future.
The latter item is especially costly, since most of the life-cycle costs of jet engines are incurred after production, as parts are repeatedly repaired and replaced to keep the engines in a state of high readiness.
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In a report published Thursday by the World Economic Forum and the French business school INSEAD, Sweden placed first in a global ranking of countries in terms of their readiness for tech business, compared with a second place ranking in 2009.
Yes, the listeners to the webcast were certainly not a representative sample (not that any survey nowadays is based on a representative sample) but the honest answers may have given us a good indicator of the state of IT readiness for big data.
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