1.   Head coach Larry Robinson and assistant Rick Green also were missing so they could get an extra vacation day in.

2.   I think I have four vacation days left.

3.   You could take a sick day or a vacation day.

4.   Spent the vacation day just messing around.

5.   And sure enough, there we were again on a rainy vacation day, not willing to think about either fat grams or Roger Altman.

6.   And yet, there they were, a small but visibly youthful contingent choosing to celebrate their vacation day at Belmont Park playing the ponies.

7.   And this time I got my vacation day at the beach house and an ovation.

8.   As they use the vacation days, the firm reduces the liability, increasing its reported earnings for the period.

9.   Asked how they would like to spend their ideal vacation day, respondents allocated two hours for making love.

10.   At Intel, the chip-maker based in Santa Clara, Calif., interns receive health insurance and vacation days.