It soon became a major success, earning $4.5 million in its first year, exorbitant for that period.
The cost exceeded US$2 million (US$ in dollars) by the end of the production in early 1936, exorbitant for the period, and it was MGM's most expensive film to date after Ben Hur (1925).
The drawing room was built and the main hall enlarged for the occasion, with £1300 spent on the banquet, an exorbitant sum for the period.
With these funds you pay exorbitant fees, endure long lockup periods on your money and often give up a very significant piece of the potential gain from owning stocks.
These cards, issued by specialty finance companies as well as commercial banks, carry exorbitant interest rates after an initial period of zero interest expires — with heavy penalties for late payments.
As mentioned before, data about the maximum density of planted forests are very scarce because the cost of maintaining a series of unthinned, densely-stocked and sufficiently large field plots over long periods of time may be exorbitant.
You get a warm feeling, but no one else notices". Annual turnover rates in this field can exceed 400%: In a typical three-month period, the entire staff quits, creating exorbitant hiring and training costs.
With its ruling at a closed-door meeting on Thursday, the committee sought to end one of the mini-dramas in the saga of "Spider-Man," a show that cost more than twice as much as any in Broadway history and which became a national punch line for its exorbitant expenses, its string of cast injuries and its seemingly endless period of preview performances.
It's important that the granted time (concession period) is calculated in order to give a fair (but not exorbitant) economic and financial return to the private partner (Pellegrino et al. 2014).
When most acquisitions fail to create shareholder value, why do boards continue to approve deals their CEOs want (Boston Scientific buying Guidant at an exorbitant price, leading to $4.5 billion in losses in the subsequent 3-year time period; Microsoft's deal for the weakest part of Nokia in the face of the collapse of Nokia's mobile phone business under the onslaught of Apple and Samsung)?
Schemes that hand bonus shares to executives, known as long-term incentive plans or LTIPs, should also be adjusted to make sure the awards are drip-fed over a longer period, while the variable element of pay should be curtailed to prevent "exorbitant" payouts.
