1.   And companies like Manpower, the huge temporary help agency, nudge women into working more hours.

2.   For most workers, an often fruitful route into a permanent job is the temporary help agency, which has displaced the old Main Street employment agency.

3.   Often, too, these veteran employers now use temporary help agencies.

4.   Temporary help agencies rarely gave the workers they sent to a company the go-ahead to join a union at the company.

5.   The biggest falloff was in the service category that includes office work, computer processing, ski resorts, amusement and recreation, health care and temporary help agencies.

6.   The temporary help agency released no news.

7.   They work in health services, private schools, hotels and temporary help agencies.

8.   The biggest decline was in business services, a category that includes temporary help agencies who have been hard hit by the slowing economy.