When my husband and I were furnishing the house, we were scrambling to pack (I still can picture the movers leaning against their truck, picking their fingernails with box cutters, while we rushed around trailing rolls of bubble wrap and hearing the ticking of the many-dollars-per-hour meter in our heads).

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The men, who were paid by the meter and not the hour, were anxious to keep moving forward.

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You've got one runner coming into a prescribed 20 meter zone at about 26 miles per hour.

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The meter on top of the dash showed that the hour-long, 13-mile pass through congested Brooklyn, running the air-conditioner the entire time and being aggressive on the throttle, drained the battery by about 20 percent.

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In its simplest form, it lets your "smart" electric meter talk back to the utility and record your usage by hour, so you can adjust your habits to take advantage of lower, off-peak rates.

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Less than an hour later, Grenada's Kirani James nabbed gold in the men's 400-meter contest.

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