Most of them thought that Bank of America (BofA), America's third-biggest bank, was being extravagant last October when it agreed to pay $47 billion in shares, 40% above the market price, for FleetBoston Financial, the ninth-biggest and the market leader in New England.
Store owners say they and their middle-class clientele are being threatened by extravagant rents.
Celebrations that once might have been lavish, even extravagant, are being toned down to reflect what some call a new spirituality, said Rabbi Ted Tsuruoka of Temple Isaiah of Great Neck.
You wait until you're taxes are being spent on the extravagant lifestyle of the CEO of a private company doing public sector work - at least you know this fellow can be got rid of - how are you going to dictate the salary of a private company CEO?
The way they are being exploited, however, is an "extravagant extension" of the doctrine of foreign state immunity, the submission said.
"I think taxpayers would be outraged to know that the money they are being asked to set aside for workers is being squandered on extravagant travel," said Marcia Fritz, president of the California Foundation for Fiscal Responsibility, a nonprofit group that supports pension reform.
"I was afraid I was being too extravagant, but now I love it and I think I got just what I wanted," she said.
I'm both a pessimist and an idealist – my ideals of what could be are so extravagant, but I'm also very aware of what's possible, so I guess that's a footprint I've left in these stories.
It was election time in Peru, and extravagant promises were being made.
In Astana, it's more as if an extravagant promise were being made, and clothing it in glass and steel and ETFE will somehow make it come closer to becoming true.
