Seasoned chefs will often say that there's no such thing as a shortcut in cooking.
Often I view an acquisition as a shortcut or a quick fix to some problem that a company has.
Some companies use off-the-shelf statistics or highly generalized data on city rankings as a shortcut for the complex analysis needed to accurately prioritize and cluster locations.
Technology--it's not a bad thing, but what is bad is some of the programs are meant as a shortcut to learning the actual art of deejaying.
Even when they lend, banks often rely on the personal credit scores of business owners, a rough proxy for solvency, as a shortcut for due diligence.
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Other Chinese companies are taking a different approach to grass-roots brands like Accelera, opting instead to scoop up foreign yacht brands as a shortcut to global success.
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It can be described as a shortcut to umami, the so-called fifth flavor (in addition to sweet, sour, bitter and salt), which in turn is often described as savory or meaty.
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We do not want to lower the bar so much that others are encouraged to try to jump up and reach it particularly those who see nuclear weapons as a shortcut to global influence.
Mr Thaksin seems to have sensed this shift in the balance: although he used political barons as a shortcut to the top, he was also careful to stock his party with fresh-faced activists and respectable technocrats.
If the user wants to then hop to an application that provides more in-depth information, Windows Phone has another new feature called App Connect that acts as a shortcut to that app, removing the need to do a separate search for it.
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Thankfully, there's a helpful option to disable the background and replace it with a yellow sticky-note backdrop. (You can also save and share these jottings, of course.) Basically, the company's crafted this as a shortcut, albeit a convoluted one, that's meant to bypass the lack of any function keys on the actual stylus.
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The defendant described the descent as a "shortcut" claiming it was quicker than coming down using the Watkin path.
Companies outside the tech sector are coming aboard, too, seeing online programming puzzles as a welcome shortcut to the wearying rituals of traditional technical recruiting.
The 28-year-old woman, who works at Mains of Taymouth, stumbled into the hole as she took a shortcut across ground at the rear of the caravan park at about 01:30.
As well, showing the videos of diverse and familiar local people playing pool, built buzz and provided a mental shortcut to motivate buying.
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