Even more powerful than the conductors were the soloists: legendary pianists such as Vladimir Horowitz, commanding staggering fees and performing the same repertoire of works on endless tours, basked in the kind of réclame bestowed on film stars.
A reasonable chance exists that the $27 billion in emergency assistance will be returned, though the full bail-out bill, replete with tax breaks and opaque benefits, may never be reckoned, let alone repaid.Court filings showed that GM paid staggering fees to politically connected investment bankers.
Beware of scams designed to promise a deal in return for staggering fees.
This man entirely lacks real-estate acumen and sense, paying such a staggering fee.
Two of them -- Bernstein Litowitz Berger & Grossmann of New York, and Barrack, Rodos & Bacine of Philadelphia -- were awarded what an appeals court later called a staggering fee in the case Mr. McCall brought against the Cendant Corporation and its accounting firm, Ernst & Young -- by one calculation, more than $10,000 an hour.
Quite simply the staggering fee on offer from Real, the player's own desire to move, and also the prospect that Spurs might actually use that money to emerge as an even stronger, more rounded team with the potency to ensure they do not come up short again in the battle for the Champions League places.
(A very prominent British producer once told me pop soundtrack riches like these induce stunned awe in indie film-makers – only the big studios can pay the staggering copyright fees).
But in this case, because of the ailing economy, Pfizer has agreed to pay a staggering breakup fee, $4.5 billion, if it does not complete the deal under certain circumstances — if, for example, its credit rating drops and it can no longer finance the deal.
If you travel overseas, you may return to a smartphone bill for $5,000 or more, thanks to the staggering international Internet fees.
There are staggering variations in fees across the country, ranging from £350 a week to as high as £750, according to consumer watchdog Which?
The Pew Charitable Trust recently found that banks had a staggering array of fees — as many as 54 — for such things as asking for customer assistance, online transfers or depositing large amounts in coins.
