Athletes trickling into the city were reportedly being put up temporarily in hotels, though international sports officials, who have blasted the lack of preparations, sounded more optimistic on Friday.
If the relationship between the A.F.L.-C.I.O. and Princeton Review makes SAT preparation sound a little like discounted auto insurance, then an announcement last week by Cablevision would seem to put such services in a category previously occupied by the PBS tote bag or the Sports Illustrated fleece jacket.
Through his "careful preliminary preparations and sound tactical knowledge", Mackay contributed to the successes of his brigade and was once more Mentioned in Despatches.
As in any other field, a principal reason why genealogical consultants fail is the lack of preparation and sound positioning.
Worse yet, it models an adult life jarringly out of concert with the drumbeat of college preparation we sound each day.
And Jennifer Dickinson, an anthropologist who provided the pepper-vodka recipe for the column (as well as background information on Ukrainian traditions), came through with a pine-nut preparation that sounds right up my alley: "Place 1 cup untoasted pine nuts in a bottle and fill with vodka.
The lesson from similar operations in Somalia is that sound preparations pay dividends.
John Schreiber, one of the producers of the $4 million show, said yesterday that one performance Saturday evening and two yesterday had to be canceled because of continuing lighting and sound preparations.
— Harry Potter World (@PotterWorldUK) August 30 , 2012Classicists argue that Latin is a sound preparation for learning other languages, and the structure of one's own, and for developing cognitive skills.
He seems to have little enough vanity, and ascribes his own success as a journalist and broadcaster to such homely virtues as sound preparation, good colleagues and an anti-establishment attitude.
