George, it reminded me of something, too:

The upshot of all this is that [University of California] officials cited market forces and “price creep” when they hired Marye Anne Fox at $100,000 more than her current salary ? which is $70,000 more than what that position paid. UNC folks are now sounded remarkably like UC folks, offering the next chancellor potentially $163,000 more than what Fox was just earning.

All this when UNC budgets are cut to the bone with only the “essentials” left. Right. And if “global warming” happened as fast as chancellor “price creep,” the movie “The Day After Tomorrow” would be airing not in theaters, but on The History Channel as “The Disaster Back Then.”