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...always last," he says. "Even great stars like Schwarzenegger have had some very rough spots in their lives and their careers." The stand-up comic who went from Mr. Roseanne to Mr. Who? has more reason than most to heed that lesson--even from the top of the heap...
...NASA engineers are also portrayed in this can-do light. At one point in the movie, as Odyssey begins of fill with carbon dioxide, a group of engineers is gathered together, and a heap of what appear to be spare parts is thrust before them...
...Shift, as well as in the director's later features Gung Ho and The Paper. "He can make cold, hard decisions when he needs to. It's not like he rolls over. He does anything but roll over." Says Howard: "I'm not real neurotic, so I don't heap pressure on people unnecessarily. But if we're falling behind schedule or missing something artistically, it doesn't take a hell of a lot for me to let that be known...
...dismay, but they are hard put to come up with any solutions. "What can you do?" asks Gerald Chaleff, past president of the L.A. County Bar Association. "Socialized lawyers? You can't bring everyone down to the lowest denominator." Perhaps the impetus for reform at the top of the heap, as well as at the bottom, will only come after cases such as O.J.'s demonstrate that too much money doesn't just subvert the justice system, it can stop it in its tracks...
...recently surpassed Bill Gates as the nation's richest human. Like many of us, Buffett started with a modest bankroll, only he managed to turn his into $13 billion-plus. We've seen oil magnates, real estate moguls, shippers and robber barons at the top of the money heap, but Buffett is the first person to get there just by picking stocks...