Our schedule is tight as we leave the Island Gourmet, and traffic in Hong Kong typically heavy, so the high flier and I head over to the subway en route to his tailor.

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CharityBuzz is the brainchild of S. Coppy Holzman, a founder of Webvan, a high-flier during the tech boom a decade ago.

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His biography so far suggests an efficient bureaucrat of middling talent excellence in German and judo aside rather than a visionary or natural high-flier.

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Perhaps his lack of Hong Kong-high-flier flash comes from growing up in an elite family that nevertheless still expected its children to work hard and stay modest.

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Looks like another case of maturing high-flier syndrome: As its earlier galloping growth begins to slow, investors are starting to wonder what Gilead plans to do for a second act.

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Don't Ground This High-Flier THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES has canceled production of the proposed new F-22 fighter aircraft. (The Senate may try to revive it.) Six of these planes were slated to be built next year.

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The most interesting experiment is being done by Qantas at Sydney and Perth airports with high-tech frequent-flier cards that are embedded with an RFID (radio-frequency identification) chip.

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Previously you could talk about four distinct piano styles at the school for the cognoscenti these were associated with Goldenweiser, Neuhaus, Flier and Oborin, though all of them would probably sound indistinguishably high-powered and romantic to non-Russian ears.

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