21.   Boeing and Microsoft, for example, can pay high salaries partly because of the immense foreign demand for their products.

22.   Both industries also tend to recruit nationally and pay high salaries for high skills.

23.   Both have high salaries.

24.   A year ago, with dot-coms offering stock options and high salaries, applicants for any job there were few and far between.

25.   All three were unloaded because of their high salaries.

26.   But despite high salaries and generous perks, they said, key positions are going unfilled.

27.   But even management people acknowledged that a high tax would potentially inhibit clubs from signing players to high salaries.

28.   But he also credited them with working behind the scenes to make it possible to hire Neuheisel at such a high salary.

29.   But in several of those cases, the high salaries have not provided the county supervisors the top performance they were looking for.

30.   But the USFL shot itself in the foot by paying high salaries and trying to compete with the NFL head to head for stars and air time.