Mr. Feinberg's report points to companies that he says paid eye-popping amounts or used haphazard criteria for awarding bonuses, the people with knowledge of his findings said.
"Be it bankers being paid eye-watering bonuses, energy companies charging customers scandalous prices and maybe worst of all, John Major's government".
In Franks' words, managers were paid "eye-watering salaries on the basis that this was what the market required to retain their talents.
But Laurence J. Kirshbaum, chief executive of the books division of AOL Time Warner, who recently paid eye-popping advances for memoirs by the chairman of General Electric, John F. Welch Jr., and the golfer Tiger Woods, said he welcomed the prospect, even if it puts failures on public display.
They are paid eye-popping sums, typically based on a percentage of assets under their management or a percentage of gains.
Foreign students already pay eye-watering fees to study medicine in this country.
Other public posts pay eye-watering sums to the profound discontent of those they manage.
Joining the jet set High salaries are one reason EMBA students, even in today's tight market, can expect to pay eye-watering tuition fees.
She saw the fact that EU citizens pay eye-watering sums in other EU states as an anomaly that needed fixing.
That is not true in Brussels: indeed, many wealthy Europeans, if asked for money, retort that they already do their civic duty by paying eye-watering taxes, says one European think-tank veteran.
For the best views, fans will have to pay eye-popping prices to sit on the field level and in the decks behind home plate in seats angled toward the infield.
