Word: overpaid
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Higher phone bills and overpaid bureaucrats are not easy things for lawmakers to defend in an election year. "We did not vote to have the FCC set up a giant bureaucracy headed by someone paid as much as the President," thunders Democrat John Dingell, ranking minority member of the House Commerce Committee. "The era of Kings in this country ended when we kicked out George...
...feel sorry for the NBA, because it did the right thing and lost. People who think of basketball players as overpaid and spoiled can point to this case, and they're absolutely right. Not only would no ordinary person get away with this, he'd probably end up serving hard time...
...whole mess came crashing down in 1991, when Gillett, having overpaid for yet another television station, found himself looking at interest rates for his junk bonds that had spiked above 17%. "When the notes came due, we were dead," he says...
...sure beats working," he always said of acting, and these incidents convey the same message: do whatever the job requires, but don't make a big deal of doing something you're being overpaid for. This was an attitude many great male stars of Hollywood's classic age mastered. But Mitchum, achieving prominence late in that period (with his war- and bone-weary platoon leader in 1945's The Story of G.I. Joe), took self-deprecation to new levels...
...battle could be the last hurrah for the spit-and-polish Araskog, 65, a lanky 6-ft. 2-in. Minnesotan of Swedish stock who still towers over the company he has led since 1979. During that time, he has sought to transform himself from a poster boy for overpaid executives to a self-styled champion of shareholder rights. Yet Araskog, who served the National Security Agency as an interrogator of Soviet defectors in the '50s, can't seem to help treating everyone from Hilton CEO Stephen Bollenbach to ITT shareholders as if they might really be agents of a subversive...