• Allowing speculators to make fortunes from the junk debt they had bought, often from destitute revolutionary warriors, rankled.

    ECONOMIST: Charlemagne

  • These entrepreneurs are using technology to unleash power and make fortunes, and it is these folks who will likely help jump start the American economy again.

    FORBES: Inside The List: Facts And Figures

  • But, rather like the internet, it may disappoint many investors who hoped to make their fortunes.

    ECONOMIST: Internet access

  • To make three fortunes starting from nothing, means that I lost two fortunes.

    FORBES: The Arrogance Of The Obama Administration Will Bankrupt Us

  • Fujian has always exported its young people to make their fortunes in rich Asian cities like Singapore, or in America, or increasingly in Britain.

    BBC: More

  • Founders of high-tech firms, who once hoped to make their fortunes with an IPO, now pray that a big firm such as Google will buy them.

    ECONOMIST: Red tape and scissors | The

  • Suchen had continued watching from afar while couples their age began to have children, and when Lei had joined the other overseas Chinese returning to the mother country to make their fortunes she had not accompanied him on his trips.

    NEWYORKER: Alone

  • Politicians and their staffers can make or break fortunes by slipping a rider into a "must pass" bill or dispensing billions of dollars in subsidies to favored constituencies.

    WSJ: Tom Daschle's Washington

  • Private-equity firms frequently buy distressed companies, aiming to reverse their fortunes and make them profitable before reselling them or taking them public.

    FORBES: McGraw-Hill Sells Education Unit To Apollo: Bellwether For Educational Publishing?

  • Wealth managers, psychologists and financial advisers say the age of high-beta wealth requires new financial and psychological tools to make and preserve family fortunes.

    WSJ: The Truth About Wealth

  • When ventures fail, a new generation of capitalists can enter the fray to make the next generation of fortunes.

    FORBES: Give Creative Destruction A Chance

  • The dream is to make a fraction of the fortunes made from early deals with China startups Baidu and Tencent.

    FORBES: eBay Tries Vietnam After China Bust

  • Few MPs are convinced that building a new runway at Heathrow would boost the economy quickly enough to make a difference to Tory fortunes.

    ECONOMIST: The politics of Heathrow

  • Hon Hai relies heavily on a fairly small number of customers: In the tech industry, a single product line can make or break a company's fortunes and, in turn, the well-being of a supplier.

    WSJ: The Forbidden City of Terry Gou

  • Even the reluctance of Lebanon and Iraq to apply full sanctions will be unlikely to make a big difference in Syria's fortunes, especially as international pressure continues to mount.

    CNN: Syrian isolation marks regime's nadir

  • Even this matters: with the economy currently close to zero growth (second-quarter GDP figures will be released on July 25th) tiny changes make a big difference to headlines and political fortunes.

    ECONOMIST: The economic impact of the games

  • Executives at the majors argue that selling declining assets frees scarce managers to concentrate on the biggest and most productive projects, which will make the most difference to the company's fortunes.

    ECONOMIST: Oil companies: Improving their fieldcraft | The

  • The Conservatives will make much of the collapse in Labour's fortunes over the past month but they will begin their conference with Mr Hague's personal ratings, according to the poll, at minus 33% - having fallen from minus 25% in August.

    BBC: Has Labour's poll slide halted?

  • Fortunes will be made and lost by the decisions that businesses make on the technology they use for their digital storage needs.

    FORBES: Storage System Trends for 2013 and Beyond

  • We have to make sure that we're looking at Sunday first and foremost and turning our fortunes around there, then we worry about the next game after that.

    BBC: Ashes: Ricky Ponting keen to end to Aussie 'doom'

  • With every thought you create, you make a new decision on whether you want to concentrate on your misfortunes or your fortunes, on lack or on abundance, on fear or on love.

    FORBES: 5 Steps To Transform Your Life - Step 5

  • To make room for a future middle class, policymakers need to abandon the idea that the fortunes of the economy turn on rising home prices rather than the reverse.

    FORBES: How Is Federal Housing Policy Populist When Prices Are Rising?

  • For the Lib Dems, the political dynamic between now and the next Assembly elections in 2016 will therefore largely be governed by the fortunes of the party at a UK level, rather than the ability to make any sort of game-changing move in Wales.

    BBC: State of Play 3 - The Lib Dems

  • The gadget craze has created several fortunes, making billionaires of William Cook of Cook Group, who used a blowtorch to make an early catheter, and John Abele, cofounder of Boston Scientific.

    FORBES: On The Cover/Top Stories

  • However, it acknowledges that introducing a legal obligation for companies to make payoffs proportionate to performance would raise practical difficulties, as directors often step down for reasons unconnected with the fortunes of the company.

    BBC: 'Fat cat' pay proposals: At a glance

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