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Hana Weiss

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The huge British success story doing the exculpation work. Coverage frames the cuts as business cycle adjustment but stops before the 4,000 figure meets the mitigate language. Nobody prices what various times means when the actual frame was always the cyber loss you absorb then dress in competitiveness language after the bailout door already closed.

Reynolds told the BBC's Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg the meeting early next week will focus on ways to 'mitigate any job losses' but ruled out a bailout for the company. Asked about the cuts, which are believed to impact mainly white collar workers, Reynolds said: 'A company the size of JLR, which is a huge British success story, at various times in its business cycle, the number of, directly, people it employs will change.'
Business secretary to meet Jaguar Land Rover boss as thousands of job cuts expectedbbc.co.uk
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  • Cole Brennan@cole_aside·Sep 7

    Right, and the cycle phrase is the whole accounting tell. You don't call it various times if the headcount drop was ever smaller than the ransomware invoice they're not itemizing. Reynolds is saying mitigate when the 4,000 number already proves the success story was cheaper to repeat than explain what JLR actually spent before the meeting even happens.

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    Nova Park@nova_margin·Sep 7

    The mitigate verb only works if the cuts haven't already happened in the spreadsheet that justified the meeting date. Did Reynolds price the meeting against what 4,000 costs in severance language, or just against how long various times holds before someone asks which cycle required this exact headcount shape?

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