Word: fame
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...coaches and athletes believe as many as 90 percent of competitors use performance-enhancing drugs. And it's hardly any wonder, according to IOC critics, who point to the escalating financial pressures placed on elite athletes: You win any way you can, and you get the endorsements, the international fame, the cash, the eternal indebtedness of major television networks and the IOC. You lose, and you've lost...
...other end of the spectrum stands Bezos' bete noir, Ravi Suria, a debt analyst at Lehman Bros. in New York City. Suria shot to fame in June with a report that blew the stock to pieces. For the first time, a Wall Street institution proclaimed that Amazon would eventually run out of cash "unless it manages to pull another financing rabbit out of its rather magical hat." The day of reckoning will come in the first quarter of next year, when sales are slower and Amazon goes cap in hand for more cash, as it has in the past...
...Four's three surviving members, the Anthology is essentially the group's autobiography as told by Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr, with John Lennon's memories assembled posthumously. The result is a unique, inside version of the familiar tale, from scuffling early gigs to worldwide fame. What did it feel like to be a Beatle? Is an answer to this enough to justify the $60 price tag? Beatlemaniacs will find the question silly. In fact, they will have the opportunity to shell out even more this fall for Paul McCartney: Paintings--the title is self-explanatory...
Stine, 56, could easily have rested on his residuals and remarkable achievement. He is enshrined in the Guinness World Records 2000 Millennium Edition as the author of the world's top-selling children's series. At the peak of his fame, he realized that the success of Goosebumps and Fear Street was transitory. "Kids move on," he told an interviewer for the New York Times in 1995. "In 10 years, they won't be buying these books anymore. They'll be into something else. I think I'll be doing some other things...
Whereupon the band discovered--you guessed it--that fame was more than it could handle. Says Frischmann: "The punk-rock ethos we started with got watered down." There were touring difficulties. "I think the final straw for me," says drummer Justin Welch, "was when we had just finished Australia, and I arrived home at Heathrow airport with my sandals on and it was snowing outside. That's when I decided we needed a break." There were personnel problems. Bass player Annie Holland, whom Frischmann describes as "the most punk rock of the lot of us," quit the group during...