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WBR: Vodafone warns over wiretapping 06 June 14

Fri, 6 Jun 14

Mobile communications giant Vodafone has released a report detailing the extent of government surveillance of its networks worldwide. We ask why Vodafone has taken such a step. Also as the US economy creates jobs for the fourth month in a row, we look at a scheme which helps women return to the workforce¹ after a long gap. On the 70th anniversary of D-Day, we look at the financial cost of the landings in the context of the war more generally. And we take a look back at the week's biggest business stories with Vaiju Naravane of The Hindu newspaper in Paris and David Freedman from The Atlantic magazine in Boston

1 workforce   

n.劳动大军，劳动力

参考例句：

• A large part of the workforce is employed in agriculture.劳动人口中一大部分受雇于农业。
• A quarter of the local workforce is unemployed.本地劳动力中有四分之一失业。