At a Department of Motor Vehicles office in Jersey City, Sam Aswad said that even if the cutbacks led to shorter hours, fewer clerks and longer lines for drivers like him, it would be worth the inconvenience.
It took almost five months for Ms. Gentle, who earns $9.99 per hour as a clerk, to save up enough money for a new apartment.
At the One Stop Career Center in Trenton last week, Kareema Leary said she had waited more than an hour before a clerk helped her get the paperwork she needed.
As we waited in the lobby for almost half an hour, and a clerk studied my credit card and passport, I began to wonder at the Burj's reputation for service.
"She says, 'I know I look like her, but I want both sides of my face to look like hers.' " Ms. Lopez, 44, makes about $15 an hour as a clerk in the accounts receivable department at the Bronx-Lebanon Hoftenal Centakesbut often takes days off to care for her daughter.
Tsarnaev, 21, thin, tousle-haired and lightly bearded, stood in the federal courtroom in Boston for half an hour as the clerk read all 31 pages of the jury's verdict form in a steady, droning voice, reciting the word "guilty" over and over.
We performed 62 hours of nurse observations, 58 hours of physician observations, 55 hours of respiratory therapist observations and 57 hours of unit clerk observations.
I already had two part-time jobs and I needed some more money, so I took a job that paid $3.50 an hour for law clerks.
Within hours, the county clerk's office in Salt Lake City began issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples, after an order from a district attorney.
The couples, some of whom had lined up as early as 6 30 a.m., two hours before the clerk's office opened, were hardly disillusioned.
Hundreds of employees were evacuated from a nuclear power plant for several hours because a clerk at a nearby convenience store misunderstood a comment by a new plant worker.
