Word: shortcutting
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...commercial success, for contracts, exports and market share. This means the successful nations are trying to steal high-tech secrets from one another. The Third World and former communist states do not have the money to buy or build themselves quickly to prosperity, so they are seeking a shortcut by stealing technological, scientific and commercial secrets from more advanced countries...
Section 158 is a giant shortcut. It bypasses constitutional process. It ignores the logic of citizens rights. It compromises for political expediency the very practical considerations that underlie it. The synthetic, misguided drinking age has turned out to be just another flawed legacy of the Reagan years...
...came upon two brothers, Cole and William Neer, who were taking a shortcut through the park on their way home to supper. He tied them up, molested one, stabbed them both, then fled back to his apartment as police and ambulance sirens wailed in the distance. Dodd wrote about the thrill of it. "I was kind of afraid that I was going to get caught," he told the Oregonian. "And then as I watched the papers, I realized that the police didn't have any clues...
...recently proposed city ordinance would ban bicycle riding on the Cambridge Common, cutting off a popular shortcut for residents of Quad houses and first years living in 29 Garden...
...trek most make at least four times a day. According to an informal Crimson investigation, it takes six minutes and 866 steps to make the walk from 29 Garden St. to the Yard's North Gate. The walk would take even longer if you don't take the shortcut through the Cambridge Common...