11.   This menu for entertaining four or six has the added advantage of advance preparation.

12.   Whenever possible, Ms. Garten suggests shortcuts, advance preparation and convenient substitutions, including canned and frozen vegetables and prepared mayonnaise.

13.   With a little advance preparation, a visit can be a pure delight.

14.   Yet even the Vatican has quietly undertaken some advance preparations.

15.   Advance preparations even included military training to cope with a possible gas or chemical-weapons attack by terrorists.

16.   Cantonese grandmother Chan nee Kok Lai Kuen remembers the days when her mother-in-law was alive, and Chinese New Year meant months of advance preparation.