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...emphasize this point, Demeo noted that after graduating from Princeton she realized that she had no idea how to find a job. Her mother told her to go to a temp agency, and she ended up as the “sample girl” in a grocery store...
Kate adores Jill, a stay-at-home mom dying of cancer, who poignantly captures family life in instructions she leaves for her husband (the water temp for socks, Christmas gifts for the next two years, advice to kiss the boys even when they grow tall). Unlike Jill, though, Kate is a bit player in her own household, which is run by a nanny wielding absolute power. Kate doesn't know her daughter's best friend or how much her son weighs. She's a victim of reverse intimacy; her associates soak up so much time that she stays in touch...
...population will pay the full market rate; 20% will pay up to one-third of their monthly income; and 30% will be former public-housing tenants who also will pay no more than one-third of their income. Harper, who was laid off from her job as a temp at the post office six months ago and is now looking for work, pays $700 a month. As her daughter Shalonda, 10, and son Samuel, 8, play in the apartment, Harper explains that "if you venture a couple blocks away from here, you see the same bad stuff--drugs and gangs...
LIVING ROOM COUCH—At the dawn of summer freedom, I thought that fulfillment would come from an internship or a temp job and a few weekends at the beach. I had no idea that I would also spend the next three months destroying mythical monsters, cavorting with Greek gods and repeatedly saving the world from the schemes of a mad scientist...
...both Safe Horizon and FEMA, local workers were hired quickly in the first few weeks after the attacks, often from job fairs and temp agencies. The former assistance worker says he became "disheartened" by an atmosphere at the centers in which staffers would stuff prepaid phone cards intended for victims into their FEMA aprons and in which computers and other equipment available only to employees turned up missing. This worker, like many among the center staff, was let go when the tide of aid applicants slowed this spring...