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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
overpay .
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So the next time you're feeling down, or exhausted, or unappreciated, or at the end of your rope; the next time you turn on the TV and see yourself called "overpaid;" the next time you encounter some simple-minded, punitive policy that's been driven into your life by some corporate reformer who has literally never taught anyone anything. ...
Dan Brown: Matt Damon's Powerful Education Speech at the Save Our Schools Rally in DC Dan Brown 2011
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So the next time you're feeling down, or exhausted, or unappreciated, or at the end of your rope; the next time you turn on the TV and see yourself called "overpaid;" the next time you encounter some simple-minded, punitive policy that's been driven into your life by some corporate reformer who has literally never taught anyone anything. ...
Dan Brown: Matt Damon's Powerful Education Speech at the Save Our Schools Rally in DC Dan Brown 2011
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So the next time you're feeling down, or exhausted, or unappreciated, or at the end of your rope; the next time you turn on the TV and see yourself called "overpaid;" the next time you encounter some simple-minded, punitive policy that's been driven into your life by some corporate reformer who has literally never taught anyone anything. ...
Dan Brown: Matt Damon's Powerful Education Speech at the Save Our Schools Rally in DC Dan Brown 2011
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As for the justice thing — the BSO freelancer situation stinks, and I've said so, but the leap from that to the assertion that BSO full-timers are overpaid is not good economics.
In the ballpark Matthew Guerrieri 2009
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Hey Bruce, Let's talk about overpaid - as in overpaid longshore workers (average pay $110,000) if you want to talk about overpaid.
Sound Politics: Guess What? Big Companies Pay Good Executives A Lot, And in Stock. 2006
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And this means that, by making a list, we can easily see which actors are the most "overpaid" - a list that lots of people will want to print, thus advertising Forbes.
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"overpaid" -- as they aptly put it -- $14,518 in just four years of marriage.
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The fact that conservatives want to protect the right of bank executives to defraud their shareholders of huge sums of money as payment for having just nearly destroyed the world economy, while at the same time attacking public employees, of all people, as some kind of overpaid rentiers, is totally ridiculous.
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He was "overpaid" the same as most of our "professional" athletes are today.
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Redstone charges that CBS chief Les Moonves "overpaid" in his acquisition of CNET
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