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The next year, a wave of enthusiasm among individual investors like Cheney propelled the stock’s meteoric rise.

Nasdaq, with its meteoric rise as the NYSE’s rival and incubator for generations of high-tech companies, has been at the center of the economy’s booms, and busts, since its inception.

Investors’ ultimate fear is a mixture of high inflation and slow growth similar to what fueled gold prices’ meteoric 1979 rise.

Consider the meteoric rise of Chomps, the jerky maker.

Critics fear that Shein -- whose meteoric rise has been a bane for traditional retail fashion companies -- will further hurt stores in France that have had to lay off staff or close.

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