The Spanish conquistadors declared coca a tool of the devil, until they saw how it improved the work rate of the Indians they sent down the mines.
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.
Instead, he put out a plan that is all candy and no vegetables, making a promise of a 25 percent rate without doing any of the hard work on the tax base.
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.
The combination of work-rate and basic technique make Sorin indispensable to Argentina's World Cup quest.
" By contrast the current show, says this dealer, has "a lot of second-rate work.
These interest-rate expectations work in favour of the dollar and against the yen.
The four have combined for five pay-per-view matches since last year's WrestleMania, the kind of work-rate wrestlers on a punishing 200-day-a-year schedule could appreciate more than any five-star match.
Anyone with a copy of Microsoft Excel can quickly work out that the average real rate of economic growth overwhelms every other issue, even if all you care about is federal government finances.
Rooney usually finds a way to contribute even when he's not playing well, mainly because of his prodigious work rate.
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The unemployment rate is a reflection of those seeking work over the past four weeks divided by the total workforce.
McCourt is a hugely talented footballer but criticisms of his work-rate have led to him being described as a "luxury player" by some commentators.
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Mr DeVoretz calculates that the rate of return for a doctor who gets an education at a first-rate Canadian university and then goes to work in the United States is around 45% on the direct costs of his or her education.
Mr Black also called on the Welsh Government to make representations to the UK government to reduce the rate of VAT on building repairs and improvement work to existing buildings from 20% to 5%.
The new inductees included Gordon Moore, the co-founder of both Fairchild Semiconductor and Intel (and most famous for his Moore's Law, which predicted the rate of semiconductor progress), and Carver Mead, who did much of the work that made it possible to pack tens of thousands of transistors onto a single silicon chip.
Those of us who work with athletes must consider both potential rate increases and deduction limitations when planning for the end of 2012 and going forward.
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The amount of private work being taken on had not increased, it found, the rate of decline in productivity had slowed, the ratio of full-time consultants to total staff in the NHS had risen and pay rises not linked to performance had slowed.
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.
In other words, too low a rate of unemployment or too few Americans out of work, is bad for the economy because it would lead to too much inflation.
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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.
Though the unemployment rate for people over 55 is just 5.9%, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, several points lower than the overall rate of 8.1%, when older workers lose their jobs they are out of work for a long time, according to the AARP Public Policy Institute.
An experienced worker laid off when unemployment is at 9% faces a reduction in lifetime earnings nearly twice that of someone sacked when the rate is 5%: a loss of 20% on average, according to new work by Steven Davis and Till von Wachter.
He said a stubbornly high youth unemployment rate underlined the need for all levels of government to work together.
The Commerce Department said Wednesday that builders started work at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 890, 000 homes last month.
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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Transocean uses two safety criteria to calculate executive bonuses: the rate of incidents per 200, 000 hours that employees work, and the potential severity of those incidents.
According to Mr Bryan, who runs the college's architectural stone conservation course, the structure is sound but work is needed to slow its rate of decay.
Going poorly, although figures out on April 7th did show that the number of Germans out of work in March was down from 4.8m to 4.6m, a rate of 12.1%.
His likely Republican opponent this November, Mitt Romney, has criticized his handling of the economy, and on Friday Republicans emphasized that the tick down in the unemployment rate was largely due to people dropping out of the work force.
Young adults between the ages of 16 and 24 who are looking for work now face an 18.9% unemployment rate, which is nearly three times the jobless rate of workers 55 and older. 1.3 million fewer young adults are in the workforce now than when the recession began two years ago.
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