But the loss was hardly indicative of Mr. Granelli's season or his career, and, as he stated in the lawsuit, his salary was anything but commensurate with his lifetime achievements.
Concentrating on the crisis to the exclusion of much else, however, seems only to shrink still further the likelihood that the 27 nations of the European Union, so proud to proclaim themselves the world's largest trading bloc, can punch with anything like commensurate political weight in the global ring.
Soon enough, he suggested, "the payroll will be commensurate with anything we've ever done, because we can do it".
He also said that "the payroll will be commensurate with anything we've ever done, because we can do it".
No one has been able to demonstrate that these enormous variations have anything to do with commensurate variations in quality or that price discrimination in health care is efficient, let alone fair.
It is difficult to argue that such shares, to say nothing of major changes in the distribution of income like those recorded in recent years, have anything to do with a commensurate contribution that might merit extraordinary compensation.
The "finest wines known to humanity", as Withnail memorably intoned, will often, like anything of good quality, also carry a commensurate price tag.
Some are burdened with paying down school loans, and many of them are still struggling to find jobs commensurate with their college-grad degrees that pay anything decent.
Anything that obstructs Hockney's instincts is intolerable: as Kasmin put it, "David's ego is so large his self-pity is commensurate".
