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...breed of temporary worker is jumping into the U.S. labor market: the temp professional. In growing numbers, lawyers, doctors, engineers, computer experts and college professors willing to punch in and out for up to $150 an hour are being snapped up by firms and institutions eager for their services but only for a while. Professionals now account for an estimated 11% of the 800,000 Americans who work each day in temporary positions. The top-drawer temps, whose numbers are increasing about 10% a year, are profoundly changing the $6 billion temporary-service industry...
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Because it nets less than three cents on every sales dollar, Chrysler needed to build up its cash position, partly to finance refitting of the Belvidere, Ill., plant, where the new cars will be assembled. In 1976 the company sold its Air-temp air-conditioning division to Fedders for $47 million; the sale has now become the subject of lawsuits. Last month the real estate division sold several shopping centers, a hotel and some office buildings for $50 million...
...Philadelphia because someone told me that Phillie radio plays David Ruffin all the time. When Ruffin left the Temptations, I figured their die was cast. Now Kendricks has split, and the chief consolation is that he intends to continue performing on his own. All the striking falsettos in the Temp's harmonies were...
...October, 1946 and February, 1947, Merleau- Ponty published his response in Les Temp Modernes, a review started by himself and Sartre in order to provide a Left, united by memories of the Resistance, with "a reading of the present... as complete and as faithful as possible ... " (quoted by Sartre in Situations. p. 168). Humanism and Terror consists of these articles woven, with other material in pursuit of the same themes, into a study of what he called the Communist problem. Koestler raises such a problem for us. says Marleau-Ponty, but he did not understand it. Indeed, Koestler...