He has a local software partner available at a per hour rate in case he needs any technical support.
While the rate per hour that Ford paid his assembly line workers was high enough to steal them away from competitors, the rate he paid per car was actually a lot less.
And, according to eBay and PayPal, iPad2s were moving at a rate of 250 per hour from 12am to 8am PT.
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If and when the promised power is taken offline, Enernoc gets paid again, at a market rate per kilowatt-hour, sharing that with clients, too.
The AA had gone to more than 11, 000 breakdowns by 1730 GMT, with calls peaking at 1, 200 every hour - about twice the normal rate.
The jobs pay low wages: 65 cents an hour, a quarter of the rate at factories across the border in Israel and slightly less than in Mexico.
If I pour in at the rate of one gallon per hour, that total volume is a megawatthour (MWh), or 1, 000 kilowatthours (kWh).
After a certain threshold of about 24 hours of continuous use, the bill accumulated at by-the-hour or by-the-minute rate typically exceeds the cost of otherwise paying a flat daily rate on a traditional car rental.
Working with the beats helps me move faster, increasing my piece-rate pay by a dollar an hour.
Then, in 1996, America Online opened the floodgates by introducing a monthly flat rate instead of charging by the hour.
If all goes well, the system could check up to 1, 200 passengers every hour at a single gate -- a rate quick enough to prevent a logjam at even the busiest terminals.
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.
At its height, the storm heaped snow on Connecticut at a frenzied rate of four to five inches an hour.
At its height, the storm heaped snow on the state at a frenzied rate of 4 to 5 inches an hour.
The 58-year-old manufacturer produces a device that can stuff cereal boxes at the rate of 5, 000 boxes an hour without cracking a single cornflake.
You see, U.S. productivity, which is a measure of employee output per hour, is now increasing at an unusually high rate of 4%, the fastest pace since leaving the depressed recession of 2002.
The International Atomic Energy Agency reported today that the level of radioactivity at the Daiichi plant has fallen sharply from a rate of 1, 190 millirem per hour to 60 millirem per hour with a span of 6 hours.
When a human wearing the EEG cap was introduced, the number of false alarms dropped to only five per hour, out of a total of 2, 304 target events per hour, and a 91 percent successful target recognition rate.
Hopefully the infrastructure will have grown by then as well -- Tesla's already working on DC "superchargers" compatible with the Model S and capable of recharging its batteries at a rate of 300 miles of range per hour of charge.
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At one point Friday night, for instance, Connecticut's emergency management agency warned on Twitter that "a wide ban of extremely heavy snow" was moving through the central and eastern parts of the Nutmeg State, dropping snow at a staggering rate of 4 to 5 inches an hour.
Labour productivity continues to grow, with non-farm output per hour increasing by 1.1% at an annual rate in the second quarter.
For 10 titles, a nearly 100-hour work-week and a six-figure annual rate, moms may be the most valuable workers in the country.
The ideal arrival rate into Miami International is 72 aircraft per hour.
The evening commute could be especially treacherous, with snow predicted to fall at a rate of 1 to 1.5 inches an hour in some areas.
Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster counted sales in an Apple Store (just as he's done every year since 2008), reporting that iPads and Macs were leaving the store at a rate of 14.8 and 10.1 per hour, respectively.
Those that offer "life care, " or Type A, contracts typically charge the same monthly rate for an independent-living villa or for 24-hour skilled-nursing care.
It is offering hydro-powered electricity at a very cheap rate: two U.S. cents per kilowatt-hour compared to four cents in the United States and seven cents in Germany.
Or the high school kids who stop for a minute, rate it high on the coolness quotient and stick around for an hour.
Under flat-rate pricing, the price paid for electricity is the same for any hour of the day or season of the year.
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