After a guest finishes his or her coffee, a host may turn the cup upside down, allow the grounds to cool and then tell a fortune by reading the grounds.

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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

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

After she got the news, Ms. Bartz accused Yahoo Chairman Roy Bostock of reading from a script, according to an interview on a Fortune magazine blog Thursday.

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