Word: overpaid
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...world full of overpaid CEOs, Bollenbach is demonstrably worth the money. The day that Hilton announced his appointment as CEO, the company's stock shot up 21%, or more than $750 million. For the Bally Entertainment deal, Hilton anted up $2 billion and assumed $1 billion in debt but paid with Hilton stock, then trading at $113.75--or worth about $1.9 billion more under Bollenbach...
...what do we hate more than lawyers? That's right, jury duty. And big, fat, sleazy corporations with maggoty ad campaigns and overpaid ceos. And shameless, unjustifiable federal subsidies! And corporate legal departments, yes, oh yes, crawling with lawyers with compound eyes and side-mounted mandibles...
...with the notoriously bonkers George III. But they knew there was something inherently wrong with the idea that political power resides in a strand of DNA, or that the fate of a nation--or even just its self-respect--should depend on the sexual proclivities of a handful of overpaid layabouts...
...contenders for the Republican nomination, only one is seizing the issue in a full-throated way. Only one decries the "stagnant wages of an alienated working class" and lambastes overpaid CEOs. Only one is going beyond standard Republican indictments of the "intellectual elite" to attack the financial elite, venturing beyond cultural populism into full-fledged economic populism. And that candidate is Pat Buchanan--not exactly the dream nominee of Gingrich and the rest of the Republican leadership...
...earth, with a murder rate six times that of the U.S.'s. Moreover, some A.N.C. officials have been accused of corruption. Wary foreign investors say that while South Africa has an excellent infrastructure and a sophisticated banking system, its work force -- at least compared with Asia's-is undereducated, overpaid and too politicized...