TV companies the world over pay exorbitant amounts for the rights to broadcast sporting events.
We think that the payday lenders charge vastly excessive amounts for the loans they make.
The hurricane center predicted 5 to 20 inches of rain for Jamaica, and slightly lesser amounts for the Cayman Islands.
For instance, you can see people paying different amounts for the same thing: phone bills, cable bills, haircuts, gym memberships.
Settling for less than President Obama's requested amounts for the agencies would be acquiescing in the derailment of Dodd-Frank.
Still, Mr. Hauswirth said that corrections officials had been unaware that John Doe I was dyslexic or that he had changed dosage amounts for the condemned.
But this year, Congress became much more explicit, saying, "The conferees include the following amounts for the following projects and activities," and it then listed hundreds of projects.
Both Mr. Tauzin and Mr. Oxley have raised hefty amounts for the House Republican campaign committee and individual members who faced tough challenges.
In the 1980's, when the Reagan administration budgeted huge amounts for the Strategic Defense Initiative, the Soviet Union was this country's obvious antagonist.
They wind up paying different amounts for the same book, just as airline passengers pay different amounts for a seat on the same flight.
A broad swath of psychological and economic research has argued that people will pay different amounts for the same item depending on who is providing it.
