We object to high pay for value destruction, high pay for failure, and high pay compared to your peers that is unrelated to outperforming them.
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The standard justification for the high pay of CEOs and other top executives is that the market demands it.
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They go for the high pay, of course, but why was the pay so high relative to other high-skilled professions?
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"If you want to pay for less speed, you'll pay for less speed and consume more, or you can pay for high speed and consume less, " Verizon Chief Financial Officer Fran Shammo said Wednesday.
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It makes perfect sense for companies to do the reverse: scour the world for markets that will pay high prices for their shares, thus reducing the cost of their capital.
Previous governments have tip-toed close to the nuclear threshold, but pulled back for fear of the high price India would pay for breaking the nuclear taboo.
Such treatment, it adds, allows high-dividend companies like Duke to compete for investment dollars with high-growth companies that pay less dividends but that strive for long-term growth.
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The current high pay for government jobs, however, has reversed this effect to a great extent.
Mr. Thompson also proposed higher pay for high-performing teachers who take on new responsibilities, like mentoring newer teachers.
We all pay for high tax states as a result of these deductions.
You have to admit that is pretty good pay for high-school graduates.
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Shareholders don't know what's going on and how these decisions have been arrived at and crucially there isn't a close enough relationship between high pay for people at the top and the performance of the company itself.
For now, investors are being asked to pay a high price for hope and speculation.
Interestingly, historically there was usually a premium built into high-quality company valuations, as investors are willing to pay more for their high returns on capital, strong balance sheets, lower risk, and the certainty of their cash flows.
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Though competition has made life cheaper for businesses that make a lot of long-distance calls, ordinary people still pay high prices for lines and local calls.
The price that we have paid for it and continue to pay for it is just too high.
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The National Union of Students said the state should pay for higher education - but that high-earning graduates should pay more.
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Recently, a 50-year-old friend asked me where to put extra cash he wanted to save for retirement, but was worried he might have to use to pay college bills for his high-school age twins.
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But now their depositors are asked to pay for the high-risk strategies of other bankers.
Not good enough for the high council tax we pay in our area.
Former US Senator John Edwards kicked off a program yesterday to help low-income North Carolina high schoolers pay for college.
The good news is that normally you have to pay up for high-quality companies like that, but today quality is on sale.
Like voters everywhere, they want many impossible things before breakfast, including low taxes and all the things that high taxes pay for.
Better than nothing, no doubt, but for Brazilians who must pay high interest rates partly so that the government can service its own debt, that might seem a poor return.
Because office buildings, bank branches and shopping malls had been rendered technologically obsolete, any price was too high to pay for them, or for the REITs that owned and managed them.
Any professional service that does not require physical interaction (or pay for very high touch service), and which is complex enough to benefit from more than a phone call, is a good candidate.
TfL said every day 36, 000 people board a bus and find they have insufficient funds on their Oyster card to pay for their journey and that at least 500 people a day try to pay their fare with a high denomination note for which the driver does not have change.
For a little while, until I ultimately got fired because no one wants to pay enough for the supposedly high end high quality content I produce.
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Both the United States and Poland will be ambitiously setting forth -- the conduct for the international community so that the Belarusian people do not have to pay too high a price and for too long a period.
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Until now, consumers have had little choice but to pay high prices for these services.
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