This is nothing new, nor is corner-cutting unique to police officers.

The trouble is that in these corner-cutting times such transactions tend to bypass the viewer who has no vested interest.

She also had a vivid high-vaulting, corner-cutting style in conversation that piqued the curiosity of people all over Europe.

Mr. Bohan complained that the Dinkins administration's program was nothing more than "a cost-saving, corner-cutting idea that's supposed to give the illusion of the city being prudent."

Mr. Mosley has depicted a special locale and a corner-cutting way of life that most readers will find far more riveting than the crime pages of their newspapers.

Warners' super-fast, corner-cutting production methods tended to stereotype actors and McBain's blonde-princess looks suggested upper-class party girls, heiresses and debutantes.

The rap sheet reflects poorly on management and furthers the impression of a corner-cutting culture that Chief Executive Tony Hayward had, until recently, been widely credited with improving.

He depicts his fellow Harvard undergraduates as essentially corner-cutting careerists, busy trying to score the right summer internships that will land them choice post-college gigs in Washington or New York.

He is one of the relative unknowns whose years in the trenches have helped them refine the paper-moving, agenda-managing, corner-cutting art of running a government and who are now moving into positions of authority.

It is a thinly fictionalized account of the life of Boris A. Berezovsky, the energetic, corner-cutting entrepreneur who turned a tax-dodging scheme involving imported cars into a media empire that controlled Russia's biggest television channel.

After just seven horses soared successfully, they returned for a timed jump-off over seven fences, and the Olympic veteran Leslie Howard, piloting a safe but corner-cutting route aboard Jane Clark's Irish-bred gelding Clover Leaf, won the main event with a time of 26.01 seconds.

This tells us one of three things: David Cameron has a very simple, corner-cutting recipe for lasagne, or Sam Cameron does, or one of them knows a shop where you can buy a whole one at short notice, as long as you leave a deposit for the dish.

The inflatables sell off the shelf for $69 to $300, and Gemmy Industries Corporation of Coppell, Tex., which claims to produce the majority of the large figures sighted this year on lawns, porches, terraces and roofs from Long Island to Los Angeles, is not shy about the product's corner-cutting appeal.