1.   Increased competition has inflated salaries among professional athletes.

2.   So for a moment, forget the greedy owners and the obscenely inflated salaries.

3.   With each move, there were new cars, new bonuses, promotions and inflated salaries.

4.   Congress passed Tuesday a major civil service reform designed to combat inflated salaries.

5.   Generally speaking, over the last ten years people have been promoted too fast, given inflated salaries and fancy titles.

6.   He also hired two stepsons of Gerald McGowan, the U.S. ambassador to Portugal, at inflated salaries.

7.   The final few years of the contract include highly inflated salaries that Favre will never earn.

8.   The Jacksonville Jaguars trimmed more off the top of their inflated salary cap Tuesday by releasing defensive end Joel Smeenge, wide receiver Reggie Barlow and three other players.