For 11 years, Annita Rucker watched the man she married -- the dreamer, the achiever -- struggle to maintain his optimism while grappling with a shrinking housing market and a growing body.

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These are the common characteristics of the entrepreneurial achiever.

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The high-achiever may soon make more history by becoming the first Latino governor of Texas.

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Chicago fans have taken to calling him Carlton, after the diminutive high achiever in television's Fresh Prince of Bel-Air.

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Casper Van Dien and Denise Richards are the principal characters, All-American Johnny Rico and the over-achiever girl he loves more than she loves him, Carmen Ibanez.

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Only this week, The Economist judged Melbourne, that great over-achiever, to be the world's most liveable city.

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The previous government's onerous tax and regulatory policies reduced British Columbia to an economic under-achiever through most of the 1990s.

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Manager Wallace Weitz is a star achiever, and another of his funds, Weitz Partners Value, joins the roster for a second year.

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But Obama is a high achiever who didn't intimidate her husband, says Mbaya, a native of Zimbabwe who is the advocacy director for World Vision's Africa's region.

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