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The obstacles aren’t just about setting up a business—where officials have recently tried to smooth the path—but also about closing one down if it doesn’t pan out.

"They combine data from sensors, Wi-Fi, mobile networks and 3D building models to produce smooth position estimates that can withstand errors caused by reflections," Mohamadi said.

Despite spending somewhere close to $650 million to assemble their rosters, the two most prestigious franchises in Major League Baseball didn’t exactly have the smoothest summers.

“I have a smoothed and cheerful ‘getting better’ answer that hides how uneven PE recovery is.”

The surface of Lake Superior, Mr. Bacon writes, “spread out smooth as glass, as if nothing had happened the day before.”