1.   And many executives of the nonprofits are salivating at the prospect of stock deals that could create overnight millionaires.

2.   Comparing portfolios became an exercise in status seeking and it seemed for a time that anybody could become an overnight millionaire with a hyped-up initial public offering.

3.   If multiple-choice tests are good enough to turn game-show contestants into overnight millionaires, they just might work as a national curriculum.

4.   International mergers seem to occur every week and successful start-ups are making overnight millionaires of people who have not gone the traditional routes.

5.   The interest is perhaps strongest in Silicon Valley, where overnight Internet millionaires are especially eager to cash out some of their holdings.

6.   The tech industry has been wonderful for high-skilled workers who can work for the highest bidder, becoming overnight millionaires along the way.

7.   The waiter sees an end to the overnight millionaire and an end to the over-hyped medium we call the Internet.

8.   Communists detest the program, which created thousands of overnight millionaires and ended the supposed social equality that existed during the Soviet period.