The Labor Department reported Wednesday that productivity, the amount of output per hour of work, increased at an annual rate of 2.2% in the first quarter, higher than the 1.5% increase that had been expected.
To see the system at work, look at auction-rate securities, a sort of long-term debt invented in the 1980s.
The Labour Force Survey, which estimates the numbers out of work, puts the unemployment rate at 7.9% for the period September to November last year.
If the moon harbours ice, for example, measuring the amount of it at different depths could enable planetary scientists to work out the rate at which comets smashed into the lunar surface over its history, and that knowledge could then be plugged into models of the formation of the solar system.
The Bank of Scotland Report on Jobs found the amount of temporary work has continued to rise but at a slower rate.
Then they started to use banks of graphics cards that could do the maths very quickly to speed up the rate at which blocks of work were completed.
The Commerce Department said Wednesday that builders started work at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 890, 000 homes last month.
During question time in the Lords on 30 November 2011, Lord Lucas asked the government whether it would require interns who work for an organisation for longer than two months to be paid at or above the rate of Jobseeker's Allowance.
The assessments determine whether applicants are entitled to the highest rate of ESA - for those deemed unable to work at all due to sickness or disability - or are considered "fit for work", in which case they are put on jobseeker's allowance instead.
Workers at the Marikana mine returned to work last month after receiving pay rises far higher than the rate of inflation.
Now, you must work backward to solve the loss of that rule-of-thumb: To earn at those same rate today, you will need more stocks and possibly a venture into lower-grade credit.
These days, software spending is increasing at twice the rate of hardware spending, as businesses struggle to make their new computers work better.
After adjusting for usual seasonal factors, the number of candidates placed into permanent work by Scottish recruitment firms increased in December at its fastest rate since April last year.
Activity at the plant has already dipped below the 400, 000 annual hours of work needed to sustain an economical rate structure.
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They are now rising at a double-digit rate on the back of sales to Asia, where Mr Davies used to work.
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