first years

Mark to market is a business rarity - an accounting term that draws reactions from people who don't know spreadsheets from bedsheets.

Mark to market, which we'll call MTM, evokes images of Enron's made-up profits and the other corporate scandals that marred the first years of this decade.

Not pretty.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics reports that one-quarter of workers in the United States get no paid vacation at all.

And non-union workers get more time off than union workers during their first years on the job, though the union workers start getting extra vacation after 10 or 20 years on the job.

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