In Boston, by contrast, only 37% of workers leave unused vacation time on the table.

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But most workers in each city choose to leave vacation days unused especially in San Francisco, where 69% of workers have unused vacation time.

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Last month, workers at Agency.com, a hot Web design shop in New York with a reputation for coddling the help, got a mass e-mail from the office of boss Chan Suh that was supposed to list unused vacation time.

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At the time, we expected the deals to receive regulatory approval considering that the FCC has been trying to get these companies to give up their unused spectrum for a long time.

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That's in part because with a reverse mortgage, the unused portion of the line of credit grows bigger over time.

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Golos says the money entered one of its accounts in December before it had time to decline it, and the sum was later returned unused.

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SpareOne, designed to be an ultimate safety and communication device, provides up to 15 years of battery life when stored unused (off, with plastic tab inserted) or 10 hours of talk time when in use.

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Under South African law as it stood at the time, a company lost its right to the trademark if it languished unused on the books for five years, unless there was a good reason.

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These are either licensed resellers of unused fractional shares, or they are charter brokers who make arrangements with charter companies who sell blocks of time to them, at a discounted rate.

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