They did not understand what had happend at the once highflying company.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

Some highflying fighter pilot fired a cannon shell into it.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

Adjective : highflying planes. ,highflying ideas about life. ,the highflying glamour stocks.    From Dictionary.com. 

"Well! I shall see big Davey, perhaps, but don't you think 'highflying' would suit me better, although I know little about it?".    From Wordnik.com.  [Six Years in the Prisons of England] Reference

Mr. Scrushy was once the poster child of highflying CEOs.    From Wordnik.com.  [Judge Orders Scrushy to Pay $2.88 Billion In Civil Suit] Reference

A number of last year's highflying ETFs are now in a slump.    From Wordnik.com.  [How to Know When to Hold, When to Sell] Reference

The same might be said of highflying U.S. corporate earnings.    From Wordnik.com.  [Economic Slowdown Is One for the Textbooks] Reference

The rapid fall in oil has hit the once-highflying sector hard.    From Wordnik.com.  [Margin Calls Spark New Wave of Sales] Reference

Some formerly highflying counties actually saw population fall.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sunbelt Sees Slowing] Reference

COLLINS: An annual tradition, but is it a highflying celebration?.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Nov 23, 2006] Reference

In 2000, he sold Zond to Enron, then a highflying energy company.    From Wordnik.com.  [Alternative Energy's Fortunes Shift With the Winds] Reference

To highflying Fidelity, this was not only boring; it was irrelevant.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Light Went On] Reference

"The room is filled with highflying big thinkers," Mr. Axelrod says.    From Wordnik.com.  [After Jabs at Cheney, Biden Pursues an Activist Role] Reference

JASON CARROLL, CNN CORRESPONDENT: It is a highflying celebration, Heidi.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Nov 23, 2006] Reference

Some previously highflying funds are sustaining declines in the double digits.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hedge-Fund Sluggers Strike Out] Reference

But it fell far short of the highflying performance craved by hedge-fund investors.    From Wordnik.com.  [Citigroup to Close] Reference

Many formerly highflying companies looked to be on the verge of becoming penny stocks.    From Wordnik.com.  [In Year of Rally, Bullishness Paid Off] Reference

And people here are just a little shaken up by the sudden demise of a highflying company.    From Wordnik.com.  [Collapse of SemGroup] Reference

He then took a job at Quokka Sports, a highflying Internet company during the dot-com boom.    From Wordnik.com.  [Savings Strategies] Reference

And he said UBS won't compete for talent by offering guaranteed bonuses to highflying bankers.    From Wordnik.com.  [UBS's Risk Aversion Hits Result] Reference

So that brings me to another trend, which is just highflying Asian food, fantastic and expensive.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Nov 26, 2005] Reference

Applications had dropped off in the mid-1980s-a reflection of the values of those highflying times.    From Wordnik.com.  [Future Shock For Med Students] Reference

Ritchie, once a highflying fund, was founded by Mr. Ritchie, a former college football star, in 1998.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ritchie Capital Settles Late-Trading Case] Reference

Whether owned by Eastern, Pan Am or Donald Trump, the shuttles have been viewed as highflying cash cows.    From Wordnik.com.  [For Sale: The Shuttles] Reference

Formerly highflying markets, particularly those dependent on commodity exports, took particular punishment.    From Wordnik.com.  [Global Markets Are in for a Tough Slog] Reference

Analysts increasingly talk of a possible bubble forming in China's highflying asset markets, including stocks.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fervor Greets China IPO, Spurs Bubble Talk] Reference

Perth, Australia The demise of a formerly highflying brokerage firm is vexing one of Australia's largest banks.    From Wordnik.com.  [Failed Broker Haunts] Reference

That included a position in a highflying fund run by manager John Paulson that bet against subprime-mortgage debt.    From Wordnik.com.  [Small Kresge Foundation Teaches] Reference

Investors had to cover losses elsewhere or didn't see formerly highflying markets as a safe place to be in a storm.    From Wordnik.com.  [Truly a world-wide dive] Reference

Thenceforward for nineteen years a more highflying Tory than Mr. Peel was not to be found within the walls of parliament.    From Wordnik.com.  [International Weekly Miscellany - Volume 1, No. 7, August 12, 1850] Reference

On the other hand, the highflying math required to do even basic work in finance is beyond the grasp of most psychologists.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dismal Science Grabs A Couch] Reference

As the "Nutcracker Prince," he displays an indelible buoyancy and plasticity, as well as a highflying command of the stage.    From Wordnik.com.  [An SFB 'Nutcracker' on TV and DVD] Reference

We could just hop on today's highflying investments, such as gold stocks, commodities and inflation-indexed Treasury bonds.    From Wordnik.com.  [Falling Down the Market Rabbit Hole] Reference

Once highflying corporations known for generous executive pay, Fannie and Freddie have become more like government agencies.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mortgage Plan Isn't Cutting Rates] Reference

As bets on a second-half rebound look increasingly dicey, the highflying transports could succumb to another force: gravity.    From Wordnik.com.  [Are Transports Flashing False Signal?] Reference

Seamico issued a "buy" last week on Amata Corp., which operates industrial estates in Thailand and its highflying neighbor, Vietnam.    From Wordnik.com.  [Big Potential, Big Risk in Thailand] Reference

Weigel moved to the Town Creek home not because of its highflying past but because it is on a dead-end street of homes on large lots.    From Wordnik.com.  [Where We Live: Town Creek, in Maryland's St. Mary's County] Reference

In early 1998, Mr. Anwar was a highflying deputy prime minister and finance minister, and was considered Dr. Mahathir's heir apparent.    From Wordnik.com.  [Malaysia Opposition Leader] Reference