They were over achievers and, all things being equal, will fall back to earth in 2012.

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Disney, which was flying high last week with Up and The Proposal, is expected to fall back to earth.

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It became stuck in Earth orbit after its launch in November and will probably fall back to Earth next month.

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But at some point in time, without a real economic recovery, even Wiley Coyote has to fall back to earth.

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The ISS has a tendency to fall back to Earth over time as it drags through the top of the atmosphere.

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The problem is that the rocket ships almost always disintegrate in the atmosphere on their ascent to the heavens and fall back to earth.

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Yet both will fall back to earth in 2013 as unit growth decelerates, margins come under pressure in response to intensifying competition, and earnings growth drops into the low single digits.

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That superhuman status set Armstrong up for the hardest kind of fall, and he has plummeted back to earth.

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