1.   As the technology-heavy Nasdaq market rose to stratospheric heights, nowhere was the cheering harder than in the investing chat rooms on the Internet.

2.   He became one of the few living American artists whose prices hit stratospheric heights.

3.   Sure, but it was Jordan who propelled the league to the stratospheric heights it enjoyed before the recent six-month lockout began to erode that popularity.

4.   The stratospheric heights of the Dow Jones Industrial Average have not wiped out the misery at the depths of American life.

5.   Banks helped launch most oligarchs to their stratospheric heights, and their huge debts are now dragging them down.