"It actually shows the totally ridiculous and confused priorities of the government which is hell bent upon wasting public finances on extravagant schemes like green and yellow taxis, freebie laptops and building the Guinness world record for the most expensive metros in the world".
"Narcissistic personalities abundant among the rich tend to view their answers as the only ones that are legitimate, and they are attracted to extravagant schemes," he says.
But the rhinoceros carcasses kept piling up around them, and it was only after dozens of these hulking, relatively rare animals were dead and their precious horns sawed off that an extravagant scheme came to light.
There was alarm that the dam would stop sea trout from reaching their breeding grounds, so an extravagant scheme was hatched to trap them, put them in lorries and transport them to streams on the other side of the dam.
The railway contracts, awarded following closed bidding, and an extravagant scheme to provide schools with computers are dogged by accusations of graft.The creation of 47 counties, as a result of a new constitution endorsed in 2010, has added a new layer of corruption and taxation.
Your March 21 editorial about Walter Hewlett's opposition to the Hewlett-Packard and Compaq merger, in part because of anticipated post-deal "outrageous executive compensation," should reawaken shareholders elsewhere to hold their directors and compensation committees accountable for extravagant compensation schemes, and particularly schemes not clearly related to executive performance.
It needs oil at about $140 a barrel to balance a profligate budget padded with the extravagant spending schemes of its former president, Mahmoud Ahmedinejad.
They can afford to attend because classical events aren't nearly as expensive as most people assume, especially in comparison with the extravagant pricing schemes for élite pop acts.
Rather, the shareholders were ambushed by WPP's promise in 2013 that the extravagant incentive scheme would be dismantled.
In his five months in office, he has launched a counter-corruption drive, called for an inquiry into the police force and scrapped an extravagant construction scheme.
In the last stagnant days of Habsburg Austria, a combination of imperial largesse for decorative schemes in extravagant public buildings with a cynical rejection of authority by artists who saw no future for the society they decorated, unleashed the dream art of Klimt.
