But few lived up to investors' expectations, and their high-flying stocks plunged.

He left Netscape in 1998, a millionaire many times over thanks to the company's high-flying stock.

These companies cannot pay as high a price for acquisitions, nor can they offer their employees high-flying stock bonuses.

But others said traders saw the selloff as at least a short-term opportunity to buy high-flying stocks.

The fastest job growth is in the financial sector, including people who have grown suddenly rich in the high-flying stock market.

In the 1960's, he used Teledyne's high-flying stock to make cheap acquisitions and raise earnings.

He calls himself a value investor but owns some high-flying stocks that would fit snugly into a growth portfolio.

Nearly half of that money was in roughly two dozen high-flying stocks when the stock market began to unravel in early 2000.

"You run into some of the classic growth problems," said one trader who is ambivalent whether to bet that the high-flying stock will tumble.

IS the high-flying stock market, buoyed by a seemingly limitless tide of pension money, heading for a fall?

The day was toughest on the bears, those equity strategists who have been saying that the high-flying stock market had to be headed for a fall.

But the high-flying stock Global Crossing wanted to use as currency to acquire Frontier has not held up.

"You had all these high-flying stocks.

Analysts said Starwood's corporate structure, and high-flying stock, gave it advantages Hilton could not match.

Millions of people who bought into high-flying stocks at the height of the dot-com bubble are understandably bitter these days.

And he spent a great deal of time arguing that Starwood's high-flying stock would eventually be regarded differently, and less favorably, than it is currently.

Applying the contrarian way of thinking so common on Wall Street, anything that becomes too popular, like a high-flying stock, bears some caution, their views suggested.

The ease of that acquisition and Albertsons' high-flying stock price led Albertsons to attempt expansion on a grand scale.

The disclosure sent Comptronix's high-flying stock into a nose dive, plummeting to as low as $3.75 a share from $22 in over-the-counter trading yesterday.

It's a rare person these days who is not in love with Tiffany & Company and its high-flying stock, which has soared 47 percent since Jan. 7.

But the prospect of getting high stock valuations for such properties is obviously attractive, in part because high-flying stocks can be used as currency in other deals.

But, like others who lived through the 1973-74 bear market, he veered from the growth approach when he saw the severe damage suffered by some favorite high-flying stocks.

NSMC - National Student Marketing Corporation the name of a high-flying stock in the mid-1960s.

Another part comes from Pennsylvania Mutual's lack of high-flying stocks, especially in last year's winning biotech sector, combined with the general slump in small-company stocks.

In the late 1960's, he shot down hundreds of high-flying stocks while writing The Wall Street Journal's trademark Heard on the Street column.