Absent a strong dose of fiscal discipline, that astonishing figure will doubtless include spending on rampant cost overruns, an overstuffed Pentagon bureaucracy, and exorbitant salaries among arms industry executives.
Martin-Hill believes that the exorbitant suicide rate among First Nations youth – five to seven times that of other Canadians, according to the federal government – is directly related to the lack of drinkable water.
But conditions remain dire, and locals say food brought by the regime is often sold at exorbitant prices or simply divided up among loyalists.
Max Wheeler, Mr. Johnson's attorney, has said repeatedly that the two men were being made scapegoats for participating in what had become a common practice among bid cities of providing exorbitant favors for members of the I.O.C. in order to secure their votes.
They also tend to be set at high levels, like the price "freeze" for the HIV drug Isentress, which caused a stir among HIV patients because of its exorbitant cost compared to competitive products.
For most of his 12-year tenure, the franchise more or less gave up on cultivating its own talent, instead paying exorbitant salaries to free agents, many of whom (Alex Rodriguez, Rafael Palmeiro and Ken Caminiti, among them) would later be exposed as steroid users.
Among the issues he listed were inflation, exorbitant house prices, land appropriations and house demolitions by the government and rampant corruption.
Presidential candidate and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, among others, said in September that the exorbitant increase to the cost of Daraprim amounted to "price-gouging".
Among biased exonic regions there is an exorbitant false positive rate.
He knows that soda is the new tobacco and that nickel on a can fees can help the cash-strapped city start to pay the exorbitant medical bills racked up by the obese and diabetic among San Francisco's uninsured.
