Word: temp
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...team up to ceonvince him that the website has come alive in a conspiracy to destroy him. When Michael receives a chatroom invitation in lieu of being invited to the website’s V.I.P. launch party in New York, he and Dwight embark on a mission to put temp-turned-corporate manager Ryan in his place. Best Line: Andy, “They say you should never mix business with pleasure. So then explain to me how a putt-putt golf company operates.” —Nayeli E. Rodriguez is a sophomore in Currier House...
...internships. In 2005, more than 55,000 Chinese entered Japan under this scheme. But last year alone, the program, by the government's own count, suffered from 4,639 cases of worker-rights abuse in which unscrupulous employers took advantage of uninformed immigrants. Hikaru Morita, a senior consultant for Temp Staff, a temp agency that began offering Japanese companies highly skilled Chinese office workers in 2004, acknowledges: "Chinese are seen as working harder than Japanese, but the visa situation does make things difficult...
...step in determining whether the property should be made a landmark and saved from demolition. The preservation charge is spearheaded by a young woman who might have caught Bukowski's wandering eye back in his days at De Longpre, the setting for his racy novel Women. Aspiring photographer and temp worker Lauren Everett, 26, has been a Bukowski fan since her childhood, but she probably understands him now more than ever, explaining, "I'm an office temp, so I definitely identify with his idea of 'stick-with-it-you-don't-have-to-kill- yourself-even-though-your...
...much for one weekend a month, two weeks a year. Since Sept. 11, nearly 425,000 National Guard and reserve troops have been deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan. Like temp workers with no benefits, however, these citizen-soldiers find that when they leave the reserve forces, they are not entitled to the same tuition assistance as regular Army veterans...
This is a typical Baghdad love story. Sameera Ubaid had a temp job last summer, supervising examinations at an engineering college. In the exam hall one day, she met Salaam Ali, a lecturer at the college. They made small talk while ensuring that the students didn't cheat. When the exams ended, they went their separate ways, promising to call but, Ali says, "never expecting to see each other again...