As for Con Edison, the report says that, among other deficiencies, the company demonstrated chronic problems with emergency preparedness, even during scheduled drills.
It says Mr Bush was "told he could do ET for three months or transfer". ET referred to equivalent training, a procedure for meeting training requirements without attending regularly scheduled drills.
Empty lots near strip malls are scheduled for drilling, and a vacant patch of grass near graduate-student housing on the city's east side bears this sign: "Future Drilling Site".
Curtis Smith, a Shell spokesman, said Monday that the company remained on its planned schedule for drilling this summer.
In addition, because a scheduled lifeboat drill had never been held, the lowering of the boats was often haphazard.
Prior to teaching this lesson plan, find out from your principal when the next scheduled fire drill will be.
(The Titanic had canceled its scheduled lifeboat drill earlier in the day, and the crew was unaware that the davits had been tested in Belfast).
The reading program in these schools, called Success for All, is so structured that teachers are given a literal script and down-to-the-minute schedule, breaking drill-like reading lessons into segments of no longer than 10 minutes.
The American Physicians Fellowship, a Jewish group that maintains a registry of about 400 medical workers prepared to travel to the Middle East, has scheduled a drill next week to see how quickly doctors can mobilize, said I. Kelman Cohen, the group's president.
The regime has also ramped up its rhetoric against both the U.S. and South Korea, warning that U.S. forces would "meet a miserable destruction" if they continued scheduled military drills with South Korean troops.
