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traffic| Vehicles using public roads. Traffic moves more slowly in London, New York, Tokyo and other cities around the world than it did when horses were used. Britons spend the equivalent of five-and-a-half days a year in traffic jams, while congestion costs the USA $40 billion a year in lost production. |
| In 1998, American motorists had the lowest number of deaths for miles driven in their history, according to a report released by the National Highway Safety Administration in May 1999. The report also said that nearly 70% of American motorists now wear seat belts. |
| The world's first traffic signal, erected in Parliament Square, London, UK in 1868, exploded and killed the police officer operating it. The first vehicle-activated traffic signals introduced in the UK in 1932 also exploded. By 1993 about half of London's traffic lights were computer-controlled. |
TRAFFICtraffic| In computing, messages sent over a network such as the Internet. |
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| While the fiery and magnificent Spaniard, inflamed with the mania for gold, has extended his discoveries and conquests over those brilliant countries scorched by the ardent sun of the tropics, the adroit and buoyant Frenchman, and the cool and calculating Briton, have pursued the less splendid, but no less lucrative, traffic in furs amidst the hyperborean regions of the Canadas, until they have advanced even within the Arctic Circle. Freighters have other landing-stages at various lower levels, to within a couple of hundred feet of the ground; nor dare any flier rise or drop from one plane to another except in certain restricted districts where horizontal traffic is forbidden. Everything there is regulated by resident partners; that is to say, partners who reside in the tramontane country, but who move about from place to place, either with Indian tribes, whose traffic they wish to monopolize, or with main bodies of their own men, whom they employ in trading and trapping. |