And that is kind of the least of the shortcuts that we use." He says shortcuts like buying prepared foods for the holiday are part of a bigger trend in America.

VOA: special.2010.11.23

"We are prepared to go to Nigeria. We have been talking about Nigeria since two years ago when I came over here,"

VOA: standard.2009.10.22

"We are prepared to put more troops into Afghanistan, there must be burden-sharing among the alliance,".

VOA: standard.2009.11.13

"We can accelerate the seasonal flu vaccine, which we are doing right now to be prepared for what we know will hit this fall and winter.

VOA: standard.2009.05.03

"It may turn out that H1N1 runs its course like ordinary flus, in which case, we will have prepared and we will not need all these preparations,"

VOA: standard.2009.05.01

We have to continue to be prepared to confront them when they arise.

VOA: standard.2009.04.13

And we have to be as prepared as best as we possibly can."

VOA: standard.2010.02.21

We must be prepared to change the minds of our people and educate them to understand where do we want to take this country to, not through violence."

VOA: standard.2010.04.04

"We have been talking about Nigeria and we are going to go to Nigeria. It is a lot of words about moving,moving, but we are prepared to go to Nigeria.

VOA: standard.2009.10.22

With the success of The Dark Knight we were in a position where the studio was prepared to put a lot of faith in us and trust us to really do something special."

VOA: standard.2010.07.16

"That's going to require a lot of restructuring. We're prepared,as a government, to help that process if we believe it is going to provide the basis for a stronger industry in the future.

VOA: standard.2009.03.30

"Our view is we're going to get the events off, but we felt that we were not prepared to create a situation that, in fact,could begin to encroach on the field of play."

VOA: standard.2010.02.16

"I have actually led the way I saying that we are prepared to make the additional troops available for the Afghanistan strategy so we are able to show people that we have a strategy for the time ahead as well,"

VOA: standard.2009.11.10

"We want to reintegrate those people who are today perhaps part of the insurgency but prepared to abandon violence and prepared to join the political process and we want to ensure that the Afghan government is free of corruption and therefore able to be a strong authority against any Taliban insurgency in the country."

VOA: standard.2009.11.10

"So it is a broad scenario, it allows our soldiers to work together, and what we call basic blocking and tackling, and if the eventuality comes where we have to work together with India,with Thailand, with the other nations in the region we work with, we will be better prepared to work as partners together,".

VOA: standard.2009.10.26