The commission said that it had found disturbing signs of a cozy relationship between Navigant and the power authority, including "exorbitant" charges for consulting work and unexplained travel expenses.
Mary Alexander, deputy Scottish secretary for Unite, one of the trade unions that will protest against the NPD programme outside the Scottish parliament on Thursday, said the deals tied public authorities into "exorbitant" 25- to 30-year contracts.
Conveying a greater sense of moral authority than simply "unreasonable" or "exorbitant", the word has perhaps been used to emphasise the moral purpose of the project.
Farmers in the province have complained of exorbitant taxes and beatings by the local authorities.
America's highest communications authority has voted to reduce the exorbitant costs of prison phone calls, currently set under a commissions-based contract model with private communications companies that some prisoner advocate groups have long compared to a system of "kickbacks".
Their sometimes exorbitant interest rates, however, caused social unrest, which made public authorities aware of the need for alternative facilities for consumption loans.
The Long Island Power Authority, which came under scathing criticism after its hobbled response to Hurricane Sandy, is facing new scrutiny after a commission found evidence of "highly questionable" billing practices and "exorbitant" expenses charged by a consultancy that was deeply involved in the authority's business, according to a state report released Saturday.
These areas don't actually have a municipal authority, which gave developers free reign to build up the exorbitant hotels and casinos along the Strip.
The study's participants – 743 street vendors from cities in Ghana, India, South Africa, Peru and Kenya – said that local authorities routinely undermine their earnings by confiscating goods, charging exorbitant fees, demanding bribes and imposing a vast array of other costs.
The request was rejected in 1993 by India's Department of Biotechnology (DBT), the authority for monitoring elementary and small-scale tests, because of the exorbitant trait fees and presumed problems crossing an American variety with an indigenous one (Gupta and Chandak, 2005).
Islamabad is running out of water and many residential neighborhoods now rely on water supply through tankers; they charge exorbitant rates for this job that is actually the responsibility of civic authorities.
