Unless you have carefully arranged for cooperative family or friends to occupy properties with spare rooms in alluring parts of the world, then you presumably have to pay for accommodation.
This could have all been avoided if the organisers had let people pay with a MasterCard or American Express - but Visa was presumably prepared to pay a vast sum for exclusivity.
But by the time the contest has reached its conclusion, the cops have hoisted the kid on their shoulders and are presumably planning to pay his way through college.
In that spirit, the mattresses used to demonstrate bed making were not from Sleepy's but Hästens, the luxury brand that, according to the company's Web site, stuffs its bedding with natural materials like horsehair and wool "from the forests of Sweden," something that its customers are presumably happy to pay as much as $36,000 for.
In his introductory piece on the U2 website, Bono refers to Songs of Innocence as the first instalment of a two-album set – "if you like Songs of Innocence," he wrote, "stay with us for Songs of Experience, it should be ready soon enough" – which makes it sound suspiciously like an interstitial release, with an album proper, that you presumably have to pay for, to follow.
(Think of the fees!) Plus, weren't we presumably going to pay the rent with checks?
One such renter was Leo Lowenstein, who held a seat on the New York Stock Exchange and could presumably afford to pay market rates but wound up with a rent-controlled unit anyway.
Many companies would, presumably, be willing to pay a high price for access to the most elite new talent pool in New York's technology world, but they will not have to.
The deal would also enable Comcast to turn the Time Warner Entertainment stake into cash eventually and that would presumably allow Comcast to pay down some of the debt it will incur in the $47 billion takeover of AT&T's cable division.
If the Mets somehow managed to lure Jeter away from the Yankees, it would be a coup, and even if they failed, their presence in the negotiations would presumably force Steinbrenner to pay far more than the $175 million he might have to pay today.
