The Overachievers Of 2002 While the U.S. economy is still struggling, these five companies are going gangbusters.

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The Overachievers: Starbucks Delivers 11.04.02 It has posted 30% average profit growth for a decade and shows no signs of slowing down.

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The Overachievers: Boston Scientific Has Heart 11.08.02 After a string of bad luck, the medical device manufacturer has delivered two years of solid growth.

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Here we present the 2002 Overachievers.

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It does, however, help to explain why a disproportionate number of the most influential celebrities on Twitter are African-American: On the Forbes Celebrity 100, eight of the top 20 celebrities in our social rank index are black, as are four of the top 10 social media overachievers.

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Two decades on, Pitino is now at Louisville, doing the same thing with a new bunch of overachievers.

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In addition to Google, 11 technology overachievers returned to this year's list, including three companies that have made the cut for each of the past five years.

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