Trading high-priced stars for low-paid young players.

If he can't get the stadium, and can't sell the team, he will surely unload a lot of his high-priced stars.

So he began looking for donors to endow chairs, a popular method of drawing in the money needed to snare a high-priced star.

But high-priced stars are, of course, hardly a guarantee of box-office success.

Teams are being forced to trade away high-priced stars left and right.

But once in a while, as happened here recently, a fresh story idea surfaces and touches off a battle between big studios, high-priced stars and prominent directors.

Ultimately, Pasquel's dream faded, as financial realities led to decreased salaries and his high-priced foreign stars returned home.

The Redskins get testy when people say that they are simply a collection of high-priced stars and are the best team money can buy.

But Wilpon apparently came to the conclusion that the Mets' salvation was not exclusively found in high-priced stars.

The Islanders' high-priced stars have gone into hibernation.