They sell on rights to broadcast media conglomerates for extraordinary fees.
Similar questions may arise for the dozens of banks and hedge funds around the world that reaped extraordinary fees for steering investments to Mr. Madoff over the last decade.
The county's performance was particularly bad in 2002 because of the liquidation of a number of contracts that created extraordinary fees.
This year, the N.R.A. incurred extraordinary fees in pursuing a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act, also known as McCain-Feingold after its Senate sponsors, which bans the large donations to political parties known as soft money and restricts advertising.
"I want America to know that they might have lost their home or they might be getting these extraordinary fees, but it's not the common workers' fault," he said.
Ours is a toll-booth economy, unchallenged by any major party, in which companies which have captured essential public services – water, energy, trains – charge extraordinary fees we have no choice but to pay.
Last year, you may recall that I wrote a column detailing the extraordinary entrance fees that corporate executives pay for the opportunity to do matchmaking in the Alps.
The resulting publication of extraordinary consulting fees further raised questions regarding the commitment of participating surgeons to exercising independent medical judgment.
"I speak for a generation of disadvantaged students who may never even come to Oxford, deterred by the extraordinary leap in fee level and by the parents for whom £27,000 is more than they earn in a year.
Having said since he took over at St James' Park on 9 December that Carroll would not be sold in the January transfer window, Pardew said that "extraordinary circumstances" – the fee and Carroll's request for a new contract – had meant that the club had changed their mind.
