The last thing the fans want to hear is the owners' crying about the problem they created by giving lavish salaries to players of all levels of ability.

To attract such scholars, Mr. Silber has sometimes offered lavish salaries.

Of course actors are hardly alone in Hollywood in collecting lavish salaries.

The banks' managers paid themselves lavish salaries, and expended money based on the banks' nominal profits, completely unrelated to their real profits.

As a short-order cook with plans to marry, paid a fair but not lavish salary, I had needed to save for our future.

He lectures, chats with students and goes out to dinner (on what seems to be a remarkably lavish academic salary), but inside he's roiling with pain.

A couple of decades of free agency and lavish salaries freed the players from the grips of owners but also unbound them from one another.

Mr. Holding is a demanding boss, not known for lavish salaries or lavish praise.

Expanding into other states has led to big losses, and regulators are investigating whether he squandered millions of dollars on lavish salaries and executive perquisites.

Because demand far outstrips supply, companies often feel they must offer lavish generous salaries and stock options to recruit and retain workers.