71.   The uproar over Mrs. Contemplacion followed a furor here in January over the execution of three Filipino contract workers in Saudi Arabia.

72.   They also said that Taliban fighters had beaten a number of U.N. contract workers inside Afghanistan, as well as confiscating U.N. vehicles in several cities.

73.   To do that, companies are making ever greater use of contract workers and temps like Davis.

74.   To save money as its revenues slow, Cisco intends to sharply trim its pool of temporary and contract workers.

75.   TWA and other airlines try to prevent problems by screening both their own staff and the contract workers.

76.   USX, which operates U.S. Steel, has idled one of its blast furnaces in Gary, Ind., and laid off contract workers.

77.   Van Ella cautioned employers to check backgrounds of temporary and contract workers as well.

78.   We may have a future where we all will be contract workers, she says.

79.   What makes this work-force flexibility possible is the rise of temporary and contract workers.

80.   When the high-tech sector bounces back, the early hiring may lean heavily toward contract workers, who can be easily shed if the recovery is rocky.