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high-flier

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a high-flier
someone who is very successful at their job and soon becomes powerful or rich. A high-flier in the eighties, he was earning over £200 000 a year.


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This was a year in which Homestore, once a technology high-flier, found itself awash in red ink, weighed down by lawsuits filed by angry shareholders and cooperating with a federal investigation.
Meanwhile investors remain extremely optimistic about this one-time high-flier.
 
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