Word: supersuccessful
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...Youthful supersuccess can be fascinating--and fragile. It's hard to recall the last time that former pop teen sensation Debbie Gibson got any real radio airplay; and it's difficult to forget those photos of Michelle Kwan, 16, slipping in last month's U.S. figure-skating championships. For Rimes, so far, there have been few stumbles. She was born in Jackson, Mississippi, and raised in Garland, Texas, by her mother Belinda, a homemaker, and her father Wilbur, a seismic-supply salesman who peddled drilling rigs, metal pipes and the like before quitting to co-manage his only child...
...Most of the new multimillionaires come from middle-or lower-middle-class families, and few showed much early promise. Several had indifferent school records and drifted until some spark propelled them toward supersuccess. Yet all were independent enough to start or finance a new venture and canny enough to find fields ripe for development. Some profited from high technology and built companies that produce computers, video terminals or computer software. Others found fortunes in more traditional fields such as manufacturing and medicine. Still others turned to Wall Street not to raise money but to capitalize on new ways of analyzing...
Fleet Streeters last week were chattering like a treeful of English sparrows over the supersuccess story of a bird they all knew when. Only eight months ago brash Frank Owen, back from the wars, had gone to work as a high-priced (around $40,000 a year), once-a-week columnist for Lord & Lady Rothermere's London Daily Mail. Now he had been named its editor...
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