Lillian Gish plays an impoverished young woman whose musician boyfriend (Walter Miller) leaves to seek his fortune.

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It didn't surprise me that after graduation in 1998, William Jefferson Foster went east to seek his fortune.

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And, given the country's appalling infrastructure and its venal government, many Indians still prefer to seek their fortune in California.

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Rangoon office rents rose by about 150% in the past year, and are set to rise further as more foreign companies come to seek their fortune in one of Asia's last economic frontiers.

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But to gain that market share Alukkas first had to leave the subcontinent and seek his fortune in the Gulf, tapping into the buying power of expatriate Indians, the dominant immigrant community in the region.

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Better to model yourself on Cohen and seek your fortune in what he predicts are the growth areas of the 21st century: the electronic microchip, the cellular phone and Internet, new discoveries in DNA and the mapping of the human genome.

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The overseas tour has inevitably drawn comparisons with Phar Lap, the legendary New Zealand-born stayer who became one of the earliest stars of the television age when he traveled to the Americas to seek his fortune after dominating Australian racing in the early 1930s.

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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.

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He was in the tradition of American industrialists who, having made a fortune, seek to give it away.

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