"I never thought about anything like this, but it was a big fortune, " said Ms. Ambat, who is 57 and works in business development for nursing homes.
What we have now are the generic manufacturers and Big Pharma making a fortune by agreeing to delay competition that would bring lower priced drugs to market.
They may not be the biggest payers, but defender and captain Chris Hope and big striker Leo-Fortune West have been lured out of the League to add weight to what looks a balanced squad.
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Like many of his fellow tycoons, Mr Tanti has seen a big chunk of his paper fortune blown away in recent weeks on a storm-tossed stockmarket.
Mr Esteves is only 41, giving him plenty of time to oversee the push into the big league and to make a fortune twice.
Armstrong's personal fortune had sustained a big hit days earlier.
We acknowledge the big things, like family and good fortune, and a chance to be together.
And Vivek Nair, age 23, is solving a big problem with carbon emissions through his company, Damascus Fortune.
Novell already does business with 83% of Fortune 1000 companies, and its sales to big customers are growing faster than its business as a whole.
The consulting firm Deloitte predicts that by the end of this year, over 90 percent of the Fortune 500 companies will have at least some Big Data initiative underway.
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But what does matter is you believe you have come up with THE BIG IDEA. The one that could make you a fortune, or make you a hero at work or in your community.
Both the FT and Chris Redman writing in Fortune raise questions about what the overall value of big exchange mergers will be worth given the competition from electronic venues such as BATS, Direct Edge and Chi-X.
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There is a funny American myth that you have to go to big places such as New York or California to make your fame and fortune.
He says he prefers it that way on the grounds that he has no wish to attract attention and risk being accused of being a "big-time Charlie" for deserting his homeland to seek fame and fortune on the other side of the Pond.
For context, consider that back in 1995 Fortune published a story questioning whether venture capital was getting too big and institutionalized to do what it did best: generate big returns for investors by finding an entrepreneur in a garage with a good idea, and giving him the money and support needed to grow.
In a wide-ranging talk with Kaskade last week, I got the impression that this could also be the planned exit for Infochimps and the main reason for putting Kaskade in charge of communicating the value of what Infochimps offers to Fortune 1000 enterprises and its unique position in the rapidly evolving big data landscape.
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The electronics business is so big that if it were an independent enterprise, it would be on the Fortune 200 list of major corporations.
He was given a big chunk of restricted stock units, a rich compensation package that promised great fortune and 416, 479 vested Facebook shares by the fall of 2012.
"Everyone thinks we've got a fortune hanging around, but in actual fact the company's got a big debt, " he said.
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Adenuga made his first fortune at age 26 in the 1970s by distributing lace and other materials, but he hit it big when the military regime of former President Ibrahim Babangida gave him a contract to build Army barracks.
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