1. The unreadiness of governments to put money where the minister's mouth is, however notorious, not the issue.

2. In reaction to his own unreadiness, Bush immediately overreached for an answer.

3. In creating this state of unreadiness, the role of free-market ideology cannot be ignored.

4. Because of public unreadiness to support true battle training we could not hope to turn out masses of toughened fighting men.

5. Here are a few measures, drawn from my book Ready or Not, Here Life Comes, that parents can take to prevent what I call "work-life unreadiness".

6. Six years later when Milton writes Lycidas, he's employing the same fiction of unreadiness and filled with all of the same anxiety of under-preparedness.