. >> reporter: elizabeth wade is the director of operations at clarity, the staffing agency quick is using. wade says it's not just a seasonal slowdown. >> because we did see the surge of growth at the beginning of the year. people are just pulling back a little bit. we wanted to see where q2 reportings were. we wanted to make sure-- even what's happening in a global economy. >> reporter: in south florida, joan cifferi, president of david wood personnel, has also noticed the slowdown. she says many clients could hire but won't. >> even if they have open positions, they just seem to be waiting. one reason is they are getting more with less out of their own employees, and i think they are waiting to see what's happening in the economy-- in the government. >> reporter: temporary hiring is considered one of the best leading indicators of job growth. that's because at the early stages of an economic recovery, companies often hire temps before committing to permanent positions. many economists are hopeful there will be a pick-up in temporary hiring-- including drew matus. >> if you are tre

. >> reporter: elizabeth wade is the director of operations at clarity, the staffing agency quick is using. wade says it's not just a seasonal slowdown. >> because we did see the surge of growth at the beginning of the year. people are just pulling back a little bit. we wanted to see where q2 reportings were. we wanted to make sure-- even what's happening in a global economy. >> reporter: in south florida, joan cifferi, president of david wood personnel, has also noticed the slowdown. she says many clients could hire but won't. >> even if they have open positions, they just seem to be waiting. one reason is they are getting more with less out of their own employees, and i think they are waiting to see what's happening in the economy-- in the government. >> reporter: temporary hiring is considered one of the best leading indicators of job growth. that's because at the early stages of an economic recovery, companies often hire temps before committing to permanent positions. many economists are hopeful there will be a pick-up in temporary hiring-- including drew matus. >> if you are tre

i reported a story about what happened on elizabeth murdoch's pen night when she was this back of a limo with various celebrities and rebecca wade as she then was. and they were all a bit worse for wear and they spotted a pap on a motorbike following them, and liz got a little bit nervous. i call her liz not because i've ever met her -- [laughter] and she conveyed this nervousness to rebecca who said don't worry let me take care of this ask called up the "news of the world "picture desk, rattled off a description of this cyclist, and within a minute someone had called her back with his name and telephone number. she then called him and told him that the limousine he was following contained not only the editor of "the news of the world," but the daughter of rupert murdoch and if he didn't immediately execute a u-turn he'd never work in this town again. forgive me for reporting that. but i think just to add to the list of papers that might not exist, at least not in their present form be, if it hadn't been for rupert murdoch, i don't think the independent would exist. i think by challenging the power of the print union, he made it