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• A Day Off So you want a day off. Let's look at what you are asking for.
  There are 365 days per year available for work. There are 52 weeks per year, in which you already have two days off, leaving 261 days available for work....
• The following appeared in the letter to an editor of a Myrian newspaper.
  "Under Governor Winslow's leadership over the past four years, Myria has enjoyed unprecedented prosperity....
• According to information recently reported in the Eliottown Gazette, the number of people who travel to Eliottown has increased significantly over the past several years.
  So far this year over 100,000 people have arrived on flights to Eliottown's airport, compared with only 80,000 last year and 40,000 the year before....
• The following appeared in a letter from a firm providing investment advice to a client.
  "Homes in the northeastern United States, where winters are typically cold, have traditionally used oil as their major fuel for heating....
• It seems there's this magician working one of the luxury cruise ships for a few years.
  He doesn't have to change his routines much as the audiences change over fairly often, and he's got a good life....
• enured graduate student n. One who has been in graduate school for 10 years (the usual maximum is 5 or 6)
  a `ten-yeared' student (get it?). Actually, this term may be used of any grad student beginning in his seventh year....
• enured graduate student: n. One who has been in graduate school for 10 years (the usual maximum is 5 or 6)
  a `ten-yeared' student (get it?). Actually, this term may be used of any grad student beginning in his seventh year....
• oftware rot n. Term used to describe the tendency of software that has not been used in a while to lose
  uch failure may be semi-humorously ascribed to bit rot....
• The following appeared in a memo from the president of a company that builds and sells new homes in Steel City.
  "Over the past five years, the population of Steel City has increased by more than 20 percent, and family incomes in Steel City have risen much faster than the national average....