Word: overpaid
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...value of the Canadian dollar has plummeted from $1.03 U.S. to a spindly 840 in the past 23 months. The federal government is running a deficit that is expected to reach at least $11.8 billion this year, and Canadians, like many Americans, are worried about a bloated, overpaid federal bureaucracy...
This former Marine Corps master sergeant, with voluntary service in two wars, felt nothing for the financial plight of our little vacationing soldier boys in Germany. The U.S. military is totally overpaid and pampered. I've had occasions to observe our soldiers' behavior in Germany, both married and unmarried; and in most cases, if not plain ignorant, it's shabby. Many Germans are totally fed up with the ill-disciplined, prideless people we call the military...
...thus the once happy sports world of York began to crumble. No one was winning and all the superstars were leaving. The scribes, once so favorable, now wrote bad things about how players were lazy, and overpaid, and how they fought with each other. This especially hurt the Yankees, who were the most overpaid. But they were also the only winning team...
...empire declined and even the great Olympics would not come to the Golden Apple, scared away by all the nasty news of which the scribes wrote. And the city that once loved its athletes and praised its winners, now called its only winners "hostile," and "troubled," and "overpaid." It was a dark turn of events for the once great empire of York, and rich King George was the target of most of the anger. But still he could look out at the people and say, "I have brought you winners. Remember their tasks on the field, and let their lives...
...John Fowles runs several risks, chief among them being another question: Should anybody care? And Fowles is far too thoughtful a writer not to have anticipated this reaction in advance. His novel raises and then rubs constantly against the doubt that any single life-particularly that of an overprivileged, overpaid clerk in the bureaucracy of mass entertainment-is truly worth caring about amid all the wreckage, the past and potential dooms of the present century...