[Ads-l] undecimate
James A. Landau
JJJRLandau at NETSCAPE.COM
Wed Jun 13 19:54:40 UTC 2018
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/06/12/tesla_undecimates_its_workforce_but_everythings_absolutely_fine/
Headline "Tesla undecimates its workforce but Elon insists everything's absolutely fine"
The story reads "Tesla is cutting nine per cent of its workforce in a "comprehensive organizational restructuring", according to an internal email sent by its CEO Elon Musk on Tuesday."
Google gives 55K hits but most of them seem to be a technical term in physics. I wonder, had Tesla decided to lay off ten per cent of its workforce, would the headline have read "Tesla decimates..."
- Jim Landau
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