I have worked for one company that had first deploying T/Rs, thus instigating auto spoiler deployment, as it's SOP, but every other Boeing operator I know of uses the Boeing reccomendation of manually deploying Speed Brakes first.
Also, Becker makes the statement that "If you are with a MEL released aircraft with one reverse thrust inoperative and you have a failure at the other engine during take off, you will have no reverse thrust during RTO."- Not so. There is no restriction on using the one operative T/R during an RTO. The assymetry is easily delt with by rudder and nosewhell steering.