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However , in the past there were no established salary equivalency guidelines for contracted occupational and speech-language pathology therapy services , and therapists and therapy companies were able to bill providers for services based on exorbitant salaries and other administrative costs , resulting in charges of as much as $ 688 per hour for occupational and speech-language pathology therapy services . The land boom was fed by encouragement from the federal government and the actions of land speculators , who bought up large tracts of land in order to sell it in parcels to farmers at exorbitant prices . As with the earlier sales , Dunbar made various promises of exorbitant returns . The reactionaries are likely to attempt the re-nationalization of Russia 's largest private oil companies , like YUKOS and Sibneft ( perhaps first driving them into bankruptcy through lawsuits centered around exorbitant past tax assessment and retroactive application of tax laws ) . In the fresh air of the outdoors - without walls , fences , or bars - while the cons pour and spread bubbling tar on the roof , Captain Hadley complains bitterly about exorbitant government inheritance taxes that he will owe after receiving money from his rich brother 's estate . When I asked Polish friends how they felt about the current situation , and about the lack of affordability of many products , they were optimistic and felt that having things available , even at exorbitant prices , was better than not having things available at all . In order to obtain food for their families , the poor were obliged to buy on credit and at exorbitant prices . What they exhibit is something more like the commercial imperative of journalism taking pride of place - at exorbitant length - as if a book that portends itself as a criticism of life were itself something to wrap the fish and chips in .