Word: shortcut
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Laura Parker, chief of the Washington Post's Miami bureau, took the shortcut principle even further in filing a piece about mosquito and grasshopper infestations in Florida. She lifted most of her reporting from stories by the Miami Herald and the Associated Press, including direct quotations from people she had not interviewed. She presumably saw little point in the donkey work of calling the quoted sources, or hunting up counterparts, to provide innocuous remarks. In the mind of her editors, however, she broke an implicit contract with the reader, in which the newspaper vouches that all its facts, especially those...
...some pre-existing medical condition. Predicting and detecting such problems, argues Dr. John Tupper, president of the American Medical Association, "is not something one learns in a quickie course." Tupper and others believe that only full medical-school training could prepare psychologists to prescribe drugs safely. "There is no shortcut," he says...
Filing a federal income-tax return used to be cheap but slow: 25 cents for the stamp and as much as eight weeks for the refund check. But now most U.S. taxpayers can take a high-tech shortcut. For anywhere from $25 to $75, filers can get their money in as little as two weeks by having their return sent electronically by one of 18,000 tax preparers and transmitters. After a four- year test run, the Internal Revenue Service for the first time is making its electronic filing system available in all 50 states this year...