"It's by the book – we are prepared this time.
"We are better prepared this time," Mr. Nagin said.
"We couldn't be better prepared this time around, whereas the last times have been brutal".
In Connecticut, Gov. Dannel P. Malloy reminded the state's utilities to be better prepared this time.
Ms. Warren was better prepared this time on questions about her legal representation of corporate clients than she was in the first debate, when she barely defended herself.
India's subsequent early exit from the World Twenty20 saw a fresh chargesheet prepared, this time for having sold the national team down the river in the quest for riches.
"It is never easy to play India at home, but we are better prepared this time," said Australia's captain, Michael Clarke, a member of the team beaten, 2-0, on its last visit to India, in late 2008.
You should have added that the C.I.A.'s Office of the Inspector General prepared such an authoritative report after 9/11 that has never been fully released to the public, and that President Obama's failure to appoint a statutory inspector general virtually ensures that such a report will not be prepared this time.
An industry that has learned the lessons of previous epidemics — the avian flu crises in 1997 and 2004 and the outbreak of SARS in 2003 — is better prepared this time around, while improved communication on the progress of the disease means that travelers are less inclined to panic, the air transport group said.
Amy Shuler Goodwin, director of communications for the office of Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin of West Virginia, said "without question we are better prepared this time around than last time," referring to the freakishly powerful "derecho" line of storms that slammed across 700 miles of the Midwest and the mid-Atlantic in July.
