Sentences with word «highflier»

Richards works to enable ethnic minorities and students from underprivileged backgrounds to become highfliers, too.

Prices fell across the board, save for highfliers like IOTA and Dash.

In 2015, more than 10,000 students from KIPP and other major charter - school highfliers will be on college campuses across the United States.

• Although students in the United States scored above the international averages in both 4th and 8th grade math and science, they performed well below highfliers such as Japan and Singapore on the 2007 Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study, or TIMSS.

She rarely bought highfliers, and told me that she would have picked different stocks.

From there, Surace became vice president of network services at General Magic, a highflier in handheld communications.

And guess what: Even those are rarely the highfliers, says Kip Schlegel, chairman of the department of criminal justice at Indiana University, who wrote a study on Wall Street lawbreaking for the Justice Department's research wing.

Ahura is an Inc. 500 highflier — the fastest - growing company in the environmental - services category in 2008.

Often the best mentors — those who provide caring and altruistic advice and counseling — are not the highfliers who have the influence to pull people up through the system.

The deep explication of the role Icarus plays in the poem is in the service of a key thesis: «The myths of these highfliers who fall are further countered in Paradise Lost by the motif of poetic flight.»

He became a highflier and pursued his interest in science and technology undeterred.

It was a highflier, and media darling during the dot - com / technology bubble.

Will there be a correction for the highfliers of this era, or, is it different this time?

That said, the»60s had their highfliers, and the P / Es eventually collapsed amid inflation and higher real interest rates.

In each case, the highfliers outpaced both their peers (by 5 to 8 percent annually) and the Standard & Poor's 500 index (by 3 to 6 percent annually) during their hot decades.

A bonus: highfliers can get there via helicopter, thanks to an arrival pad that's visible from the Sugar Loaf Lounge.

Estimated in the region of $ 25 million, it went for a very respectable $ 21 million to a highflier on the telephone with Sotheby's «Imp & Mod» man, Charlie Moffett.