Put simply, the dollar-yen exchange rate has been artificially depressed because of a gigantic repatriation of Japanese investments from Europe and the U.S. The dollar will soon soar higher.

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At the time, sales were booming, and Mr. Ringel thought the company had the potential to soar even higher, if it implemented systems and processes that would better organize and dispatch the contractors.

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Its shares are likely to soar even higher, now that the exchange is getting into energy and gold trading in a big way, with a 10-year agreement to trade the most popular oil, gold and other benchmark contracts of the New York Mercantile Exchange through its Globex electronic trading system.

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After a so-so training session, he tersely told her that she just wasn't jumping "anywhere near her potential" and that she could soar so much higher if she just believed in herself.

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But our heroine's delusional optimism has already peaked: How much higher can she soar?

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Recent headlines blare like warning sirens: oil prices soar to pre-recession heights and proceed relentlessly higher.

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Virginia saw temperatures soar the highest past normal levels in July, four degrees higher than average.

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As the euro has taken it on the chin, investors have flocked to dollars, sending the 30-Year Treasuries higher, and in turn making this leveraged ETF soar about 42% in the last three months.

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With the fundraising has come higher debt-to-equity ratios, which will likely soar to an average of almost 50% for the three companies this year, Bernstein Research senior analyst Neil Beveridge said, from around 20% in 2007.

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