He cast off uncooperative executives and lured several hotshots from American Home Products and elsewhere.

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In other words, the hotshots had dizzying growth that they couldn't sustain, and their stocks often suffered.

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For the female Hollywood hotshots who have broken through the celluloid ceiling, flops can lead to high-profile career meltdowns.

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Early in 1998 current hotshots Applied Materials, Intel, Oracle, Qualcomm, Sun Microsystems and Texas Instruments sold at 20 times earnings or less.

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Similar gains have been posted by other net stocks, giving the CEOs of these companies enormous buying power to chase other up-and-coming hotshots.

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These two political hotshots are just part of the story.

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Then, while the flames build and the smoke billows, these hotshots return to private practice, where their law firm represents the respondents and defendants that they had only recently prosecuted.

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While the hotshots in the left lane may cause the value of your portfolio to fluctuate on a particular day, sticking with a sound plan should get you to your goal.

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You'll have to ask the secretaries, middle managers, nannies and limo drivers what kind of man I really was or how I compared to the other effortlessly superior hotshots who roamed private equity's hallowed halls.

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All of that was swept aside starting in the late 1970s, when Wall Street firms began to evolve from closely-held partnerships into giant, global institutions run by hotshots motivated by bonuses, and owned by shareholders demanding ever-increasing profits to support ever-increasing stock prices.

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