Minting more than $3 billion in three months, so soon after its own near-death experience in the wake of Lehman Brothers' demise, will enhance Goldman's reputation as Wall Street's overachiever.
The full version of the system is now supposed to be functional by 2006.London's anti-congestion scheme, by contrast, is an overachiever, at least when it comes to traffic management.
In any other family, Nicholas Cowell would be the overachiever.
LeMay wasn't a Strangelovian maniac; he was an Air Force superstar, an organizationally gifted overachiever.
Timmis was a hard-charging overachiever from a working-class Irish Catholic family in Detroit, who had made a fortune in high-risk business transactions.
The mystery of what will matter, how the pieces will in hindsight fit together, is equally pressing for the overachiever and for Deresiewicz's risk-seeking soul person.
The director, Edward Torres, shaves the gory fable of drama's most murderous overachiever down to a breathless hundred minutes, during which the limber eight-member ensemble plays some thirty characters.
Its author, at first sight, would appear to be an exhausting overachiever: born in rural Bangladesh, educated at Oxford, Cambridge, Munich, and Yale, he has worked, the publisher's note tells us, as "an investment banker on Wall Street and as an international human-rights lawyer".
This fearless overachiever — "Everyman," as the Rays' manager, Joe Maddon, called him — was a blue blood, too, the second cousin (once removed) of the ex-Lehman Brothers chief Richard Fuld.
"He was also the most unusual personality, probably the outstanding overachiever, maybe the brightest student, and definitely the scariest individual").
