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Roadside tea vendors routinely accept dropped calls from nearby mom-and-pop stores as a nudge for service; newspapers use it to urge customers to renew subscriptions; and bank balances can be requested the same way.The practice dates back over a decade to when exorbitant calling rates forced customers to find a smarter way to communicate.
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In December, a war of words broke out as she accused Yunus of "sucking blood from the poor borrowers" through the bank's allegedly exorbitant interest rates, calling for the government to launch an inquiry into claims of misappropriation.
Still, Mr. Quadrozzi criticized the union's wage demands, calling them exorbitant.
Even phone calls become difficult and rare because of exorbitant telephone rates.
The sale of the Philadelphia papers was one of a flurry of deals made in the two years before the recession began, with buyers — many of whom had no background in the field — paying prices for newspapers that were called exorbitant even at the time.
The Labour leader wants to crack down on what he called "exorbitant" interest rates charged by payday lenders.
The late Peter Drucker, an influential management consultant and author, believed that a company's CEO should not be paid more than 20 times as much as the average employee, and he once called exorbitant CEO pay "a serious disaster".
And that leads to the apparently endless, plaintive articles submitted to local newspapers by businessmen calling the current 21-cent fee "outrageously unfair and exorbitant".
But when the cost rose to $10 million, many legislators called it exorbitant and voted to send the proposal back to the budget committee for reconsideration.
The suit spotlights the board's decision Feb. 15 to increase ZelnickMedia's management fees and bonuses to what it calls "an exorbitant" $16.5 million, from $3.8 million, in the event the company were sold.
He attacked what he called the exorbitant growth of corporate executive pay and the practice of some American companies moving operations overseas, suggesting that President Bush has not done enough about either.
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