A spokeswoman for the Office of the Secretary of Defense said last week that this rate measures only the readiness of planes that are not in depots for repair and noted that the F-22 program and the Air Force traditionally focus on a separate measure of the fleet's availability for missions.
As a nation we seem to want to defend ourselves but cannot decide on just the right amount of readiness for that defense.
Similarly, we have long urged Member States to be at a higher level of readiness so that we don't have to "build the ship while sailing it ".
This paper examines the impact of four Web site interface features on the cognitive process that trigger online shoppers' emotions, operationalized as mental states of readiness that arise from appraisal of events and considered as direct antecedents to approach or avoidance behaviors.
Nevertheless, many of those companies had also reported that there were limits to the degree of readiness that was feasible in the face of the range of possible outcomes in that scenario.
"Many of those companies had also reported that there were limits to the degree of readiness that was feasible in the face of the range of possible outcomes," the Bank said.
In the absence of globally accepted measures of district RI operational capacity (Godiskine and Jose 2012), we established an illustrative set of indicators of RI readiness that reflected essential immunization programme components (U.S. Agency for International Development 2009).
In addition to the reasons for the lack of "readiness" that have been discussed already, the role of strong intellectual, political, and administrative leadership is especially important in shaping public and professional opinions (Brukas and Weber 2009).
Since the early days of the Cold War, the United States has been keeping its land-based ICBMs in a state of readiness that allows them to be launched within minutes, at least in part to avoid having them destroyed by a surprise nuclear attack.
Although federal, state, and local public health plans for responding to bioterrorism contributed to a state of readiness that would not have been possible only a few years earlier, the response to the 2001 anthrax attacks required venturing into unfamiliar territory for many public health and law enforcement officials.
