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...typical employee relate to the $20 million to $30 million annual salary that a company executive may earn? The long-ago TV quiz show Dollar a Second provides a clue. With 60 seconds in a minute and 60 minutes in an hour, at a dollar a second the overpaid CEO makes $3,600 an hour. Since he might put in a 12-hour day regularly, his daily rate is $43,200. If the CEO works a six-day week, his weekly rate is $259,200. And if he takes an annual four-week vacation, he still works 48 weeks...
...Will Win: Gooding. Overpaid Hollywood loves that a character can be charming, talented, outspoken, in love...and still command an $11 million contract...
...Sure we're overpaid," she said. "But [the networks] are giving it to us because we make huge money for them...
...comforting to know that even in America's out-of-control legal system with its overpaid lawyers, justice can be found." ABHAY GEORGE Aarhus, Denmark...
STEVE WULF, TIME's sportswriter, usually covers pampered, overpaid athletes. At last week's Westminster Kennel Club show, however, he found himself covering some pampered athletes of another species. As Wulf watched a Gordon setter and a Brittany spaniel finish one-two among sporting dogs, he found himself reliving childhood memories of Troy, New York, where his family kept two dogs--a Gordon setter named Beau and a Brittany named Brill. "They were like George and Lennie from Of Mice and Men," remembers Wulf. "Brill was a small but brilliant hunting dog. Beau was big and not very bright...