Word: overpaid
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...hands high-wire act as he searched for a fresh vantage point from which to look down on presidential politics. Though there are backstage meetings and tense strategic debates, What It Takes is not Theodore White's Making of the President series revisited. For one thing, Cramer views the overpaid and overpraised parade of pollsters and media advisers as a comic chorus to be irreverently dismissed as "wise guys," "Big Guys," "killers" and (his sobriquet for the Bush team) "White Guys." Unlike the sainted Teddy White and the current crop of political reporters who grew up on his mythmaking, Cramer...
...Overpaid? No way. Every resident tutor delays the completion of his or her dissertation by at least one year, if not two, by living in a house. That's a pretty expensive price, but good tutors sacrifice that time...
...body of knowledge that doesn't apply to women," laments Smith. More than 600,000 hysterectomies are performed in the U.S. each year, half of them unjustified, in Smith's opinion. "That's over $1 billion in physician fees alone," notes Smith, who contends that doctors are overpaid and undersupervised. "No wonder they don't have a lot of motivation to develop alternative treatments to the excuses used for hysterectomies...
Sperling and Eisenson, while declining toelaborate on either the old or new systems ofcompensation, denied that they were ever overpaid,or that their investments were held at inflatedvalues...
...poetic about Fenway the way I could about Memorial Stadium, because it's just not my home. Roger Clemens charges money for an autograph. Repeat: he charges for a signature. At each game, I hear a new complaint: "Jody Reed sucks!" "Mike Greenwell's an overpaid bum!" "Find me a relief pitcher...