• The obvious plan is therefore to keep the congressional Republicans out of the public gaze, give as few hostages to electoral fortune as possible and, above all, avoid embarrassing George W. Bush, the Republican presidential aspirant.

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  • The film stars Justin Timberlake, as an heir to a fortune of extra time who flees the corrupt police force known as Timekeepers.

    NEWYORKER: In Time

  • Others, like Lyndon Johnson and Andrew Jackson , used government service as a springboard to personal fortune.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • Rainwater is suffering from progressive supranuclear palsy, a brain disease referred to as PSP, Fortune reported in November, adding that he requires 24-hour care.

    CNN: SHARE THIS

  • While Spurs received the more favourable decisions in terms of the penalties, they made the most of their fortune as to win a compelling and enthralling game which certainly lived up to a landmark in their history.

    BBC: Tottenham 4-1 FC Twente

  • 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.

    WSJ: Steve Finch: Burma's Boom Time Property Crunch

  • That even as it spends a fortune to gain resources in the emerging nations, it may need to commit similar energies to galvanizing a rehab of its most critical market's infrastructure.

    FORBES: Bare Shelves?

  • Essien rose above the Hammers defence to head Chelsea's first from a corner and their second goal owed much to good fortune as Matthew Upson's clearance hit Kalou and looped into the net.

    BBC: Avram Grant says West Ham 'not a team for relegation'

  • When William Wrigley settled on gum as the way to make his fortune in Chicago at the end of the 19th Century, he had no idea that the brands he created - Juicy Fruit, Spearmint and Doublemint - would still be growing, more than a century later.

    BBC: NEWS | Business | The chewing gum war

  • He began his finance career as an analyst of consumer companies at Goldman Sachs, and went on to make his fortune at Omega as a traditional stock-picker.

    NEWYORKER: Super-Rich Irony

  • 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.

    FORBES: Where To Get Rich

  • How childless Milton Hershey came to make MHS sole beneficiary of his fortune is a story that owes as much to syphilis as to cocoa.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • Speculation about Berezovsky's cause of death ran the gamut from suicide to heart attack with some pointing to his declining fortune as a possible clue.

    CNN: Russian tycoon's death 'consistent with hanging'

  • Mr. Obama's favorite billionaire, Warren Buffett, plans to shelter his fortune as a tax-exempt foundation, even as he argues for higher death taxes on everyone else.

    WSJ: Review & Outlook: Death Tax Made More Deadly

  • In Salzburg in the mid-1930s, he had the good fortune to work as assistant to two of the day's top conductors, Bruno Walter and Arturo Toscanini.

    ECONOMIST: Saluting Solti

  • Mr Leggett knows both sides of the street: a geologist by training, he made a fortune as a consultant to the oil industry before he got green religion.

    ECONOMIST: Oil and the environment

  • "I hope it brings him peace, luck and good fortune as it has to all of us who have preceded him, " Littrell typed on a page in the front.

    WSJ: Prayer book has 150-year history with NY warriors

  • His employer, a private university, offers the same health insurance to employees' gay partners as to spouses (as did most Fortune 500 companies, for the first time, last year).

    ECONOMIST: Lexington

  • She relates that in her experience as a consultant to a range of Fortune 500 companies, the number one reason women leave their jobs is that they feel their work is undervalued and their strengths are overlooked.

    FORBES: Career Women And The New Definition Of Success

  • Nine years later I moved to DC and, after failing to score a job with USAID as my intention had been, I had the fortune to land a position with a private company who was hired by the U.S. government to help train the Afghan National Army.

    FORBES: 11 Years After 9/11: Looking Ahead At The Youth Of Afghanistan

  • However, he added that celebrities already had "far too much protection - and I say that as someone who is paid a fortune to protect them all the time".

    BBC: NEWS | UK | Naomi Campbell wins privacy case

  • In contrast it is those leaders who have the courage to demonstrate vulnerability and an open heart in challenging situation who win the devotion of those with the good fortune to have them as bosses, teachers, mentors, leaders.

    FORBES: Lead with Your Heart

  • In essence, just as the Fortune 500 must relearn how to manage so as to generate continuous innovation, the health care system also needs to learn how to manage in a radically different way so as to generate reliable and affordable care through continuous innovation.

    FORBES: Saving Medicare (For Real)

  • Her power has boosted hundreds of small businesses from obscurity to fame and fortune and companies increasingly vied for product placement as ferociously as audience members tried to get tickets.

    FORBES: Oprah Says Goodbye, Retailers Weep

  • Coventry worked hard to shut down their opponents and showed excellent determination to resist an increasingly rampant Ipswich, but there was a hint of fortune as Westwood saved a Martin strike with his legs close to the final whistle.

    BBC: SPORT | Football | Championship | Coventry 2-1 Ipswich

  • The allure of fame and fortune has attracted many to the world of entrepreneurship, but for as attractive as the siren of fortune may be, its sole pursuit can sow the seeds of destruction for any new venture.

    FORBES: What Drives The Best Entrepreneurs? Hint: It's Not Money

  • Foreign energy producers would not believe their good fortune as they would only stand to benefit from such action.

    CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: DOD_CO2_patrol

  • Because technical analysts read stock charts and look for patterns in closing prices, sophisticates like to portray them as no more than cheap fortune-tellers reading tea leaves.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • And because technical analysts read stock charts and look for patterns in closing prices, sophisticates like to portray them as no more than cheap fortune tellers reading tea leaves.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • Security is increasingly in the fore of Gandur's mind, especially as his empire and fortune have grown large enough to make him a target.

    FORBES: Trouble Is My Business

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