Word: overpaid
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...published do not add up to that sum, nor do the Harvard Model United Nations books support such a statement unless one in unscrupulous enough to include in this figure such items as speakers" travel expenses, the costs of the faculty receptions, cash refunds to high schools who overpaid their fees, overcharges on hotel bills...
After his team loses its first game, to MIT, Bok lays off football coach Joe Restic. "His plays were just too complicated," Bok remarks, "and his teeth were just too white." Bok also lays off all of Harvard's famed dollar-a-year men. "They were overpaid," Bok quips...
...holds Marge's brief, unsuccessful fling at marriage in daily contempt. Nellie sews dresses at home. Margo works in a munitions factory and drinks-when she can afford to-because she is fiftyish, fat and frustrated. The time is 1944 and the city is full of American soldiers: "Overpaid," as Rita's father (and everybody else) once said, "oversexed and over here...
...delight to read the refreshing article on Reggie Jackson [June 3]. I am glad some light was cast on the humane side of an individual who is too often looked on as an overpaid hot dog. Reggie Jackson is a fine athlete who gives a booster shot to a game that seems to be losing its momentum...
...grossly overpaid U.S. medical service, unlike any other profession, has the power to demand "Your money or your life." At least the roadside bandit has the honesty to admit he is a bandit...