61.   I love spending vacation time with Lizzie, but I also was looking forward to an hour or two to myself.

62.   If you happen to get laid off, your company is required to pay you for accrued vacation time.

63.   In cutting costs to restore its profitability, US Airways eliminated paid holidays and sick days for passenger-service workers, deducting sick days from vacation time.

64.   In effect, vacation time is shrinking in relation to the time worked.

65.   In response, the maintenance company put the brakes on hiring and cut pay, benefits and vacation time for executives and employees alike.

66.   In fact, some are using vacation time to go.

67.   Instead, they are offering benefits like extra vacation time for new recruits.

68.   It started with Kidd, the guard who reminded Kenny Anderson that vacation time is over.

69.   It will be worth losing a little vacation time to lead such an army.

70.   Linda Bell, an economics professor at Haverford College who has studied labor practices in the United States and Germany, applauded the move toward more flexible vacation time.