1.   At such lofty levels, it was vulnerable to any unexpected piece of bad news.

2.   But their ability to approach that lofty level again is being jeopardized by the disappointing, even dismal, performance of the programming in which the commercials have appeared.

3.   By any measure, stock funds are at a lofty level, Lipper said.

4.   If he performs anywhere near the lofty level of Walker in Los Angeles, the Dodgers got themselves a bargain.

5.   If so, stocks still have much ground to recover to their once lofty levels.

6.   In recent weeks, the stalled labor talks and lofty levels of unemployment have had political repercussions.

7.   Not because she is a woman working on Wall Street, where there are few women at the relatively lofty level she has reached.

8.   On Wall Street, that lofty level of betting is sometimes called nosebleed leverage.

9.   One problem for the stock market is that investors are more attracted to the Russian bond market, where yields are stuck at lofty levels.

10.   Perhaps because they traded at less lofty levels, some European markets have generated equal or greater returns than their U.S. counterparts.