For the roughly 2, 800 citizens of Leadville, the sudden reversal of fortune has proved disappointing.
In a sense, he has: Bristol-Myers Squibb's fortune has taken a massive turn for the worse.
This hostage to fortune has not survived the appointment of Michael Portillo as shadow chancellor.
Fortune has three businesses: home and hardware products (57% of sales), spirits and wine (27%) and golf products (16%).
The reversal of fortune has been abrupt for former magnet states such as Florida and Nevada (see chart).
While many a fortune has been made scavenging the wrecks, it is a pastime best left to the professionals.
His fortune has really come from his turnaround, and eventual buyout, of Andritz.
The Duke family fortune has been subject to legal struggles like these ever since James Buchanan Duke died in 1925.
And fortune has given us a leader who will defend that freedom.
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Berezovsky's fortune has reportedly been on the decline in recent years, and it took a huge hit after he lost the case against Abramovich.
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The fortune has been divided several times over the generations, but the part that Kumar inherited from his father is by far the most prosperous.
To some degree, ill fortune has dogged Benitez, but mistakes have also been made and they they can no longer be swept under the carpet.
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.
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The drop in his fortune also has little to do with his political spending.
For now, Fortune Brands has plenty of spare capacity and isn't envisioning new plants.
Fortune magazine has roughly 5, 000 subscribers, according a person familiar with the matter, while the magazine has an average print circulation of nearly 866, 000.
Sadly for Dr Gruys and his team, their project looks like being a victim of the downturn in fortune that has overtaken Monsanto in the wake of scares about genetically modified crops intended for human consumption.
The rate of return on assets of US firms is one-quarter of what it was in 1965, Life expectancy of firms in the Fortune 500 has declined from over 50 years to 15 years, and is heading toward 5 years, if nothing changes.
The foundation, directed by Sir Patrick Fairweather, a former British ambassador to Albania and to Italy, and financed mainly by grants from David Packard, heir to America's Hewlett-Packard fortune, has been leading the attempt to ensure that Butrint's development is adequately financed and sensitively handled.
Call it proof that there's a global wireless karma equilibrium, if you will, that needs to be maintained: China Unicom has warned that its net profit for 2009 will be down a whopping 50 percent, while one of its doppelgangers across the Sea of Japan -- NTT DoCoMo -- has encountered exactly the opposite fortune on news that it has posted a 48 percent year-over-year improvement in black ink.
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The only CEO in the fortune 1000 that has ever been pregnant while being CEO.
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Consider that the average Fortune 1000 company has 10 years of data sitting in its databases.
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Since making his fortune, Khan has focused on giving back in his adopted home of central Illinois.
The fortune that Thiel has since accumulated has given him an influential role in Republican Party politics.
Almost immediately, people worried that her fortune (which has been valued at differing amounts, from 15 to 30 million dollars), would pass to her ex-husband, Blake Fielder-Civil.
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"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.
The reclusive magnate from Denver - dubbed "the richest American you've never heard of" by Fortune magazine - has a reputation for sinking money into failing businesses and turning them around.
Police have yet to declare the death a suicide or murder, but newspapers immediately speculated that it may have been linked to the fight for control of the family fortune, which has left three members killed and one missing over the last three decades.
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