"They had a help-wanted sign up, and I answered it," she said.

Most places, after all, do not put a help-wanted sign for Santa in the window.

This is the land of the perpetual help-wanted sign.

The busing has become a rare event, and the help-wanted signs are mostly gone.

The help-wanted sign she had seen was actually in the shop next door.

A delicatessen in town had a help-wanted sign in the window.

He passed a couple of help-wanted signs and went inside, only to find both positions filled.

"A local ordinance prevents us from putting help-wanted signs in the windows," he said.

IT is hard to walk into a store these days without confronting a help-wanted sign.

But despite help-wanted signs in many stores, retailers hardly added to their head count.