Word: overpaid
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Like their American counterparts, Japanese executives cheerfully overpaid for their late-'80s acquisitions. But the Japanese made another fundamental miscalculation, says Gary Saxonhouse, an economics professor at the University of Michigan: "They had a faith in American landmarks, a faith in American blue-chip names...
Defending his character before about 40 citizens last night, Cambridge mayor angrily said it was not his fault that he was overpaid more than $30,000 from the city during the last three years...
...dawned on me: these people on the sidelines, they aren't some overpaid, arrogant, amorphous stars that seem unreal. They're people we know, they're our friends...
...oversight that one city councillor described as a "colossal mistake," Cambridge overpaid its mayor by more than $30,000 during the past three years...
...weeks ago when the absence of baseball from our cultural landscape looked like it would have catastrophic implications for American society, a friend of mine devised the following solution to the strike: replace today's oversensitive, overpaid brat pack of players with the stars of yore...