Rather than pay extortionate sums to private landlords to shelter those in need of emergency accommodation, it's setting up a property company to buy and do up homes.
More and more people are waiting for Hollywood's new releases to come out on DVD or Blu-ray Disc so they can experience them in the comfort of their own homes, rather than pay extortionate prices at a local multiplex for the dubious privilege of viewing them on the silver screen.There is nothing new, of course, about television's impact on the cinema.
To name and shame rent-to-own retailer Brighthouse, whose hire-purchase consumer goods schemes verge on the extortionate, in front of more than 200 audience members felt courageous and important.
But it is impossible to see Apple's repair pricing for the backs are any less than opportunistic and extortionate.
'It's really difficult and my mortgage is extortionate - the payments have more than doubled,' says Joanne Gower, 43, who moved from Lytham St Annes, in Lancashire, to a hilltop village development near Mojácar two and a half years ago.
As evidence of that, another co-operator "is expected to testify that, following the heist, he saw the defendant regularly at a local track betting larger amounts than usual and extending extortionate loans", the government said in court papers.
Even then, he deflected responsibility to the private sector, calling the cancellation "a mistake". The real mistake here was that the American president, apparently preoccupied with such projects as embracing Cuba, ever let North Korea get away for more than a split second with extortionate threats against Americans.
(The extortionate twenty-dollar admission price will force everyone with more than a feeble interest in art to buy a membership, for seventy-five dollars).
Churchill River from the air So we're taking a private SUV taxi for an extortionate price that is, just let's say, $350 more than the air fare for both of us - and the driver, Paul, only has one leg.
But if you've experienced it, you know it offers clearer sound and more channels than regular analog radio, and for nothin' — except the extortionate rather high price of HD-capable radios.
