True, a rejectionist stance could sometimes pay mighty dividends, as in the case of the private finance initiative (PFI), where Welsh policy-makers called it correctly in refusing to saddle Welsh taxpayers with a mountain of exorbitantly priced future debt.
The danger, says Victor Gilinsky, an energy consultant and former member of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, comes in basing energy policy on technologies that may never work and, if they do, will be exorbitantly costly.
Earlier in the summer people's imaginations had been fired by a lone consumer's successful Facebook-driven countrywide boycott of cottage cheese which, thanks to a cartel, was exorbitantly expensive.
Off icials are troubled by the Federal Reserve's loose monetary policy and by America's rapidly rising public debtThe divide between the exorbitantly privileged and the original sinners was especially deep after the East Asian crisis of 1997-98.
Whereas demand for exorbitantly priced works by Modern artists, such as Kasimir Malevich, has evaporated, the appetite for contemporary works is spreading.
Though the iPod was derided by some as exorbitantly expensive at the time of its launch in 2001, it has amassed some two-thirds of the world market for hand-held music devices.
Japanese shoppers consider it their patriotic duty to buy from protected and exorbitantly priced domestic markets.In this section Yen and yuan Wrongs and Renong Small beer Trouble ahead Beyond the valley Health check Waving or drowning?
THE small-claims court is a rare success in the sorry tale of Britain's exorbitantly expensive, delay-ridden civil justice system.
Moreover, there is a good chance Mr Levenson will be selling near the top of the market: a series of recent disputes regarding exorbitantly priced television sports networks suggest that a bubble in franchise values may be about to pop.
That could put an end to persistent blackouts and boost local manufacturing, which has withered on unreliable and exorbitantly priced electricity.
In Japan, where housing remains exorbitantly expensive, the multiple is 26.1, though this is down from 67.4 at the peak of the Japanese property bubble in 1989.
