"It is an issue of readiness for the American armed forces," says Representative Zoe Lofgren, the Democrat from California who leads the House subcommittee on immigration.
While Mr. Bush's remarks were guaranteed to resonate in a region where many military people live, they also reflected his campaign's belief that the issues of military readiness and stewardship of the armed forces would benefit Mr. Bush nationwide, especially among men.
The current IAT has been very challenging from multiple logistic aspects: recruitment and coordination of biocurators that can properly evaluate the systems; selection of datasets; issues of system readiness and data collection, formatting and processing.
For children in particular, there is also an issue of psychological readiness.
Mr. Cheney, the Republican vice-presidential nominee, has been campaigning hard on the issue of military readiness.
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Still, Mr. Bush, the Texas governor, has been struggling with the issue of his readiness to be president since the campaign began, and it is a matter that his advisers say he will try to put to rest in the first of three encounters with Mr. Gore.
To help address the issue of job readiness for underserved youth, Gap Inc. created This Way Ahead in 2007.
As institutions of higher education continue to roll out online courses and programs, issues of undergraduate student readiness on the one hand, and the challenges surrounding the design and development of pedagogically-sound online experiences that are also accessible to students with disabilities on the other, remain of concern.
