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Example sentences for: temp

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Yes, the GOP presidential candidates debated again last night, and yes, a Florida judge at least momentarily delayed the return of Elián González to Cuba, and yes, the Supreme Court says Microsoft has to let its temp workers in on its good-deal stock purchase plan, but everybody leads with yesterday's surprise announcement of AOL's purchase of Time Warner, the first acquisition of an old media company (co-founded 75 years ago by Henry Luce) by a new media one (only 15 years old), the largest media merger of all time, and indeed, the just-plain largest merger of all time.
Listeria monocytogenes (strain 10403S) were grown overnight in 3 mls of Brain Heart Infusion media at room temp without shaking.
Another factor, says the Journal , is the rise of temp agencies in this country.
College presidents can now be hired from a temp agency.
The confusion caused by such differently or wrongly placed emphasis in a phrase is likely to be short-lived and on a level with unfamiliar prounciations such as congratul at ory, con jure , con temp late, disci plin ary, la bor at'ry, and vag ar y.