On the one hand, for many exporters the pound is still eye-wateringly high against the euro.
He described Beijing's opening ceremony as "extraordinarily, eye-wateringly spectacular" and that of Athens 2004 as "incredibly beautiful".
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With that bombastic statement began the quest to track down the most eye-wateringly expensive tipple of all.
At the same time we have had persistently, eye-wateringly high numbers of British born people stuck on welfare.
It has a fantastic capacity to innovate, produce great hardware and offer a few surprises, but its decision-making is eye-wateringly suspect.
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Maersk's move to raise funds through a bond issue in September rather than through bank financing, which is still eye-wateringly expensive for shipping firms, is probably another sign of its resilience.
Since September, spreads on telecoms bonds have narrowed sharply, implying that they are perceived to be less risky, though they still remain eye-wateringly wide by the standards of other industry debt.
Everything was so affordable that I gorged on the local salty, bread-like oscypek cheese, eye-wateringly cheap cherry vodka and Polish Mountain Tea (tea with a double shot of spirytus, 190 proof and 95% alcohol).
Highlights: truffle surprise (a nugget of pt de foie gras, wrapped in a glistening skin of shredded black truffle, nested in a ball of gele), and one of the most mouth-wateringly delicious chocolate souffls ever served in a New York restaurant.
Spanish banks like Santander and BBVA hold more than 40% of the outstanding sovereign debt of Portugal (valued at about 60 billion euros), which carries an eye-wateringly high interest rate reflective of the risk that the county will default on some of its payments.
While the number of courses has quietly tripled in the last decade to over 600, golf is still very much a minority sport and even though significant growth is expected with the expansion of a middle class predicted to have doubled its 2010 level of 52 million by 2015, the sport is still eye-wateringly expensive.
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