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Next year Volvo will do something no other company has tried: it will put 100 fully self-driving cars in the hands of customers. Regular folks in Gothenberg, Sweden and in London will test the systems for the automaker.
Volvo's Self-Driving Program Will Have Redundancy For Everything
The cars will have two independent motors to be sure that at least one of…
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James Joyce's Ulyssses was once an article of coveted and contraband smut.
Volvo to cut 3,000 jobs
Swedish carmaker Volvo says it plans to cut more than 3,000 jobs. This is in addition to the 2,000 job cuts announced earlier this year. Volvo said in a statement that while job cuts would mostly impact operations in the Swedish west coast city of Gothenburg, an additional 600 employees outside of Sweden would also be made redundant. As well, contracts with 700 consultants are to be cancelled. Chief executive Stephen Odell said that the company was downsizing its 25,000-strong workforce as the downturn in the global car industry was more drastic than expected. The carmaker is expected to sell 400,000 cars this year compared to more than 450,000 last year.
Of course, other security measures, such as explosive sniffers, can be employed, and often are. But the most reliable alternative to X-ray scanning, hand-searching everything, is slow and expensive. The upshot is that contraband is frequently smuggled in cargo and one day a bomb may be, too.
teeth- gnashing
gnash
tr.v., gnashed, gnash·ing, gnash·es.
- To grind or strike (the teeth, for example) together.
- To bite (something) by grinding the teeth.
[Alteration of Middle English gnasten, gnaisten, possibly of Scandinavian origin; akin to Old Norse gnastan, a gnashing.]
gnash gnash n.gnash one's teeth
Express a strong emotion, usually rage, as in When Jonah found out he was not going to be promoted, he gnashed his teeth. This expression is actually redundant, since gnash means "to strike the teeth together." Edmund Spenser used it in The Faerie Queene (1590): "And both did gnash their teeth." [Late 1500s]
redundant
ADJECTIVE
Derivatives
smutsmʌt
1.
a small flake of soot or other dirt or a mark left by one.
"all those black smuts from the engine"
2.
a fungal disease of cereals in which parts of the ear change to black powder.
"a few bad crop years with smut and drought and frost"
verb
1.
mark with flakes or soot or other dirt.
"the smutted sky"
2.
infect (a plant) with smut.
"smutted wheat"
Urban Dictionary: smut
contraband
adjective
contraband cigarettes/goods
contraband
noun [U]
goods which are brought into or taken out of the country secretly and illegally:
The lorry contained thousands of pounds worth of contraband.
noun
smutsmʌt
1.
a small flake of soot or other dirt or a mark left by one.
"all those black smuts from the engine"
2.
a fungal disease of cereals in which parts of the ear change to black powder.
"a few bad crop years with smut and drought and frost"
verb
1.
mark with flakes or soot or other dirt.
"the smutted sky"
2.
infect (a plant) with smut.
"smutted wheat"
Urban Dictionary: smut
contraband
adjective
contraband cigarettes/goods
contraband
noun [U]
goods which are brought into or taken out of the country secretly and illegally:
The lorry contained thousands of pounds worth of contraband.
noun
con・tra・band
━━ a., n. 禁制の; 禁制［密売］品; 密輸.
contraband of war 戦時禁制品.
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