Vinen suggests that collaboration had many shades, even the palest: for example, he cites Simone de Beauvoir's readiness to write near the stove "in the Dôme café in the winter of 1940-41.
To Steven Orel, director of the World of Opportunity Adult Education program here, the competing explanations -- poverty, the pressure of standardized exams and a readiness to write off the most difficult students -- are all true.
"We haven't received anything officially but we believe it is in our best interests to write to them and indicate our readiness to host the tournament (so as) to end all speculation," Nematandani told BBC Sport.
In a job-readiness class, Didria Brown helps a man who can barely read as he fills out a job application, showing him what to write when he sees "MI" or "SSN".
On Friday, the Obama administration confirmed publicly for the first time its readiness to give Israel written assurances on security issues.
"A more self-confident executive would be willing to acknowledge failure, to trust people's ability to forgive those who seek redemption for mistakes and show a readiness to change," he writes.
"A patient who asks a clinician about using the e-cigarette for quitting smoking may be signaling readiness to quit smoking," they wrote in a May 2014 clinicians' brief.
Their Portuguese manager, Carlos Quiroz spoke of the team's readiness to do business – despite pundits writing the team off as the competition's underdogs.
First, Roosevelt, at Casablanca, decided that America would pursue a policy of "unconditional surrender" against Germany and Japan — a declaration, Carroll writes, of "a readiness to embark, if a stubborn enemy so invited it, on a program of total destruction".
Bribe me, or else! His "readiness to go to the brink," Fenby writes, "created an exaggerated impression of power," a power France did not have, never mind the atom bomb acquired in 1960.
Herd had long been interested in both methodology and efficiency in studies conducted for clients, Stocks writes, and his readiness to teach himself whatever he needed to know helped him to excel.
