More than a million vehicles were ordered off the roads of Beijing as part of a test to gauge the city's preparedness for next summer's Olympic Games.
Ironically, we had just digressed from the agenda, to speak about disaster preparedness for 2010.
He added that he hoped that preparedness for this year would not overshadow relief from the hurricanes that had already left their mark on the Gulf Coast.
*The overall targets are based upon the operational plan and early recovery for 2013 IDPs in KP and FATA, continuing early recovery in areas affected by 2012 floods till March 2013 and emergency preparedness for 2013 Monsoon.
When Israel's top leaders were discredited because of the country's lack of preparedness for the 1973 Yom Kippur War, Mr. Peres made a bid for power.
IF MITT ROMNEY, America's Republican presidential candidate, doubted London's preparedness for the 2012 Olympics, what must he think about Brazil's?
In the mid-1970s, Justice Landau served on the Agranat Commission, convened to determine responsibility for what was seen as Israel's lack of preparedness for the 1973 Arab-Israeli war, known as the Yom Kippur War.
It grew out of the lessons from the world's woeful lack of preparedness for the 2014 Ebola epidemic in West Africa, which killed more than 11,000 people and caused at least $2.2 billion in economic losses in the three hardest-hit countries.
We've been in a state of preparedness for the last 10 days.
The former deputy director of emergency preparedness for Westchester County said today that his dismissal this week was unfair and that it was a result of his attempts to design a new evacuation plan for the county that was good for more than show.
The Securities and Exchange Commission said today that it had charged 37 brokerage firms with failing to report on their computer systems' preparedness for the year 2000, as required by S.E.C. rules.
