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Kevin Balke, a research engineer at the Texas A&M University Transportation Institute, says that while smart lights can be particularly beneficial for some cities, others are so jammed that only a sharp reduction in the number of cars on the road will make a meaningful difference.

德克萨斯农工大学交通研究所的研究工程师凯文·鲍克说，虽然智能交通灯对一些城市特别有帮助，但有些城市太拥挤了，只有大幅减少道路上的汽车数量才能有效改变拥堵的局面。

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There is even a name for the steady reduction in materials used to make the same goods: “lightweighting”.

生产同样的货物，不断减少材料使用的行为甚至有了定义：“轻量化” 。

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Does this make a difference to the claim of a significant reduction in death?

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Steve Price-Hunt from the union said it acknowledged the West Midlands Fire Service had to make cuts because of a reduction in funding from the government.

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It threatens to undermine their plans to make a steady and systematic reduction in the level of debt outstanding as repaying of coupon and maturing sums fall due.

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