Word: todays
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...About 10% of those employed by such firms are 55 and over, notes Richard Wahlquist, executive vice president of the National Association of Temporary and Staffing Services. Some of the biggest industries looking for temporary professionals include law firms, engineering companies and information-technology firms. "It's not uncommon today to see companies looking for temporary CFOs or doctors or accountants," Wahlquist says...
...once sluggish South Carolina economy is high-tech, global and in a hurry today, thanks in part to what Hollings has done during his 50 years of "politickin'." But the shiny new offices outside of Greenville are filling with voters who prefer Republican promises of anti-regulation and tax cuts. Inglis is their man, representing part of the heavily Christian "upstate" region that has most benefited from the boom...
...features ever loaded on as standard equipment--items such as a computerized traction-control system for the Chrysler 300M, and a keyless entry system for the BMW models that also lets individual family members program their own sound, seating and climate-control preferences. (The claim in Detroit is that today's autos pack more computer power than moon rockets did in the 1960s...
STEVIE WONDER People [used] to scream about explicit lyrics in rap music. Today those same people...put explicit information on the Internet for any child to see...I'm glad I'm blind...
...today in his Parkinson's-induced silence, Ali has had time to sift through the Muslim blarney and has returned to the more generous wisdom of the late Malcolm X, whom he regrets having deserted. "Malcolm was a very, very great man," he tells the author in his now halting speech. Odessa Clay's sweetness has manifestly overwhelmed Cassius Clay Sr.'s blather, and there is nothing left about their son not to like. At which point Remnick trips, for the first and only time, on his way out the door by tacking on a routine death-of-boxing editorial...