Possible Clues:

• Cuts corners
• Cuts corners to quickly read front page and sports on the back
• Economizes
• Pinches pennies
• Is a skinflint
• Reads quickly through a page in: works perfunctorily
• Doesn't do enough
• Politician, runners held, is cutting corners
• Take the top off the afterthought is one saves too much
• Cuts it fine and misses about a million