Miller visited a Texas gas company that has successfully applied formulas based on ant colony behaviour to "optimise its factories and route its trucks".

米勒参观了一家德州天然气公司，该公司成功地应用了基于蚁群行为的公式来“优化其工厂和卡车的路线”。

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This is only at certain times and on condition that they are processed at factories based near Japanese ports.

只有在特定的时间和条件下，他们才会在设在日本港口附近的工厂进行加工。

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Honda, for example, temporarily reduced production at its North American factories and said it would review the situation based on the availability of car parts.

例如本田，暂时减少了其在北美的工厂生产，并表示将继续关注汽车零部件的供应情况。

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When we transitioned from an economy based on farms to one based on factories, and workers needed new skills and training, our nation set up a system of public high schools.

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We rejected 14 factories based on initial evaluation.

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If you mine the newspaper archives for last year, or the year before (well, not exactly, you need for Chinese New Year, which being based on a lunar calendar is a movable feast) you will see many a story about how factories were desperately short of the labour they needed in the big Chinese manufacturing towns.

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