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Whether Asian economies are up to that long-term challenge is something on which fortune tellers might usefully comment.

However, the bulk of Gaddafi's fortune seems to be tied up in the Western banking system.

But he never forgot the land of his birth, or the duty to share his fortune with others.

After growing a small nest egg into a real estate fortune, Allen decided to share his powerful system.

The discovery that ginger would be an effective lure was the result of a bit of good fortune.

There he took what little money he had, said good-bye to his mother and his step-father and started out to seek his fortune.

More quietly, many people wonder how much of a fortune there is to inherit.

I believe that my own good fortune brings with it a responsibility to give back to the world.

He made his fortune through a network of pubs before founding a successful mining company, which he later sold.

'He gets more done in a day, ' Buffett told Fortune, 'than probably I get done in a week, and I'm not kidding. '

But this stance will not always get you to plan B for less significant, but nevertheless inevitable, reversals of fortune.

What Mr. Radcliffe does not seem to possess is the arrogance or petulance that typically comes with such fortune and fame.

"Rihanna likes to pioneer new styles but it's costing her a fortune, " one of her entourage told the Daily Mail.

If you and I learn how to manage the business and the lands right here, John, we'll make a fortune that will stagger the ship owners.

But if you decide to be strong, the hardship will turn out to be a fortune on which new hopes will arise.

It lives in the far wilderness of Rus and is often sought by heroes for its ability to bring good fortune.

"I had the fortune - though at the time I deemed it the misfortune - of rooming with him on one occasion, " he smiles, wryly.

After the fortune is written to the user buffer, I increment the next_fortune index by the length of the last fortune written.

By means of its good aspects a naturally malefic Planet will produce a certain success or fortune in the midst of moderate difficulties.

Stored in an underground vault at Gringotts in London was a small fortune that his parents had left him.

Oh! single, my dear, to be sure! A single man of large fortune; four or five thousand a year. What a fine thing for our girls!

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Dragons are referred to as the divine mythical creature that brings with it ultimate abundance, prosperity and good fortune.

Profits were up and, thanks to its sales, the company once again climbed to the top of the Fortune 500.

How much are these potential fortune makers worth?

The inheritance came out of the blue as a stroke of good fortune.

The flower shop charges me a fortune to deliver them on the day but it is worth the smile that she will meet me with tonight.

Peace be with Burgundy! Since that respects of fortune are his love, I shall not be his wife.

It was the last expression of the despondency of a broken spirit. He lacked energy to grasp the better fortune that seemed within his reach.

His mother had inherited a small fortune, and his father had acquired several businesses, including a popular chain of cinemas.

But his vast wealth testifies to the uncompetitive nature of the Mexican telecoms market in which he built his initial fortune.

The character may have stockpiled resources up over the years, and is thus able to weather small crises or unexpected turns in fortune.

The bureaucratic capital is one of the main capital sources to help salt merchants gain fame and fortune in Qing Dynasty.

Had not my effects miscarried, I might have had fortune good enough to him to have kept us from being parted in this manner.

The cycle of good and bad fortune is like the rise and fall of a roller coaster: What goes up inevitably comes down.

Everyone said that he was born with a silver spoon in his mouth, but actually he acquired his fortune through many years of hard work.

"Our strategy was that diesel sales around the globe are going to outpace gasoline, so we did something different, " Heminger told Fortune.

'I hoped it wasn't going to be a valiant effort wasted, ' recalled Coppell, 'but we had our bit of good fortune with the second goal.

Treasure was buried for many reasons: to keep it out of enemy hands, to "bank" a fortune, to serve as a votive offering.

In stories, the doomed hero is usually saved at the last minute by some stroke of fortune, but almost always his sense of values is changed.

The poor man inherits a great fortune and dies of a sudden illness soon afterwards, which really is one of life's ironies.

In proportion as leisure came to him with fortune, he seemed to take advantage of it to cultivate his mind.

Much of Mr Romney's fortune, which some estimate at $250m, is thought to come from his stint in private equity, but no one knows how much.

But what I did not get was that how I was supposed to make a big fortune with that job and that income.

Amazon would not disclose numbers, but a spokesperson told Fortune that its Cloud Reader had the best first week of any Kindle app to date.

The advertisement referred to "an opportunity for a well educated and motivated man to earn a fortune in the academic field. "

I told her, that as she had a good fortune, she had no need to stoop to the disaster of the times!

We got a bit of fortune early on but you need that but I don't think there was anything lucky about the result or the performance.

It was a thin strip of paper form a fortune cookie. "You will be married within a year, " it said.

Diligence is the mother of good fortune, and idleness, its opposite, never brought a man to the goal of any of his best wishes.

It even occurred to me that fortune did not favor me and my life was done.

To put the point bluntly, there exist more or less useful ways of making a fortune.

He had the immense good fortune to be recruited when the company was still offering generous stock grants to all new hires.

If the press-shy Larson, 44, was a big deal when I wrote about him in 1999 (see fortune. com), he surely is a bigger deal today.

A woman she did not know came and offered to tell her fortune with the abandoned cards.

But if Mr Pickens wants to use his own fortune to sell the general public on the idea of wind power, that is all to the good .

On her father's death, she came into possession of a vast fortune.

Pittsburgh, where he made his fortune , was given a music hall , a museum, an art gallery , and a public library.

It would make his fortune, he thought, as he hoisted his patched sails and set his course toward the southwest.

and said he, "I foresee that you will soon work this man out of his business, and mark a fortune in it at Philadelphia. "

That stake has since been sold, for an estimated $400m (Mr Paulson has said he would put his fortune into a charitable trust).

Her fortune had been made at a stroke, without her having the least idea of the source from which it had so unexpectedly materialized.

And in his mind he began composing the words he would use to tell his beloved Svetlana about their unbelievable good fortune.

It is all part of plans Buffett kicked off in 2006 to give away the bulk of his vast fortune to charity.

Wearing her fortune, from gold threads in her sari to a priceless heirloom headpiece, Nagavi sits with family on her wedding day in India.

She did not seek prosperity, not for fame or fortune, only willing to man is really just love her.

'Our life was home and factory, and this was the great fortune of the company, ' Bertelli says.

your profession was that of an artist , magician or fortune teller.

Not so long ago every country felt it had to have its own steel giant, even if it was government-owned and losing a fortune.

The good fortune that his mother had once assured him of had not lasted long.

I have had a misfortune in my recent years CEO to have to tell two CEOs of Fortune 100 companies they service is no longer needed.

"Rather than trying to revise history afterward, I'm going to make it and get something done. It may not be perfect, " he told Fortune.

And a couple years ago, you could've bought me with that big fortune of yours.

they had not trifled with fortune, but had fulfilled all the requirements that belong to the business of treasure -hunting .

No matter how he made his claimed billions, a part of his fortune depends now on his celebrity.

for the remaining moiety of his first wife's fortune was also secured to her child, and he had only a life-interest in it.

Yesterday I had my fortune told to see if I would make a fortune or if my fortune could change better.

He was one of very few Russian men of power who lived very modestly until the end of his days, not having amassed a personal fortune.

I'll love you just like a swan cherish its feather . I seem to be expended all my fortune to change with you at the dawn.

With the introduction of the tomato and a bit of culinary innovation, Heinz capitalized on the public's taste for sweets and made a fortune.

All her life, Marie had demonstrated the truth of this simple principle: happiness will not come from worldly possessions or fortune.

here you go. On any other day, it would cost me a fortune, but it's on special offer today.

Yet as we celebrate our good fortune to be born at a time of such astonishing material wealth, the toaster should give us pause for thought.

China has had the great fortune of good timing, too, with its reforms coming at the start of a great wave of globalization.

The Agnelli family are ready to dip into their fortune to help Juventus fast-track their return to the top of European football.

It was an affluent life, though the source of Joseph's fortune has never been wholly clear.

But a neighbour reminds him to donate half of his fortune as he had vowed many years ago should his wife recover.

There was a bit of good fortune involved in Hungary but they still deserved the win.

She was content to lie on the shore where fortune had stranded her and you could see that the career of this old couple was over.

The son, a steady respectable young man, was amply provided for by the fortune of his mother.

Potato Head etc. : We made a fortune. There is a fortune in here for you, and the bank deposit books are in them too!

The fortune teller told Jane there was good luck for her just around the corner.

The traveler left, rejoicing in his good fortune. He knew the stone was worth enough to give nim security for a lifetime.

The Part of Fortune is the one part which has survived in general use, though the method of calculation is often incorrect.

When he died he left the Moonstone to his sister's daughter, Rachel, in an act of revenge, passing on his bad fortune to her.

When Pisanio had provided her with her new apparel, he left her to uncertain fortune, being obliged to return to court.

What was he going to do? Let me told you . He wanted to send the parrot to the King. Maybe the King would give him a large of fortune.

Take a moment to let the goodness of life touch your spirit and calm your thoughts. Then, share your good fortune with another.

Just as it was possible to experience good or evil fortune, so one could be guided by a good or evil genius.

The young man decided to leave home to try his fortune in the city.

They are at Brighton now, you know; in one of the best houses there, as Mr. Rushworth's fine fortune gives them a right to be.

Tzu Chi is promoting the period commonly known as the "ghost month" as a time of joy, gratitude and good fortune.

He made a fortune swindling old ladies out of their life savings.

I also strongly encourage you to reflect on our good fortune in that none of our colleagues have been harmed.

Can be seen that the wind is the finish line, just as people's fortune.

However do not expect earth to amass one a fortune or to provide one a dream come true circumstance all of the time.

I account it a piece of good fortune.

Your speech last night in the school auditorium was one of the MOST instructive. It has been my good fortune to hear.

It's very easy to get carried away when planning your dream wedding, and before you know it you've spent a small fortune.

Harry died abroad, in a third-rate hotel, with Bess weeping as hard as if he had left her a fortune.

Harry died abroad, in a third-rate hotel, with Bess weeping as hard as if he had left her a fortune.

I beg him on my knees to renounce his claim to his mother's fortune.

Then you take this stick to a fortune teller and he tells you what this number means corresponding to what you were thinking of.

His mother had told him his fortune and she said luck was forthcoming.

That was the next morning, which Rebecca thought was to dawn upon her fortune.

He said it would tell my whole fortune if I wanted it to.

He began to be interested in finance because he thought he would be able to inherit the family's fortune.

and if he had the fortune he ought to have, I should think you could not do better.

Readers include mostly the young academic generation who have come to recognize that neoliberal fortune promises did not materialize.

He said that if I marry without his consent, I shall not inherit a penny of his fortune. He made a great point of this.

He said that if I marry without his consent, I shall not inherit a penny of his fortune. He made a great point of this.

Fortune recently sat down with Quigley to discuss his concept of leadership and his outlook on American competitiveness.

Fu Lan Qi boutiques "win-win Fortune" elite investment plans with you to work together to build international brands!

Money itself is always money, money together can be a fortune. Business itself is always business, outside of business can be success.

Fairy jump to the prime culprit fortune for a GuiYu should be to have to LiMengLou encase Broadway hotel room at the door, he hit on.

To maintain a currency policy that it is all things to all people, Beijing is going to need even more good fortune.

He gave all his fortune to the poor children in Africa.

A fortune teller remembers an old prophecy that the son of her erstwhile lover must be bricked up alive in order for the fortress to stand.

This project, which he had masterminded with a couple of his associates, got a lot of publicity in Fortune.

Sometimes I just hold you, too caught up in me to see. I'm holding a fortune that heaven has given to me.

Sometimes I just hold you, too caught up in me to see. I'm holding a fortune that heaven has given to me.

He's a bit of a dark horse; he was earning a fortune, but nobody knew.

And a select few warlords, who have sat down and figured out how to profit off the anarchy, make a fortune.

It is usually the degree or sign ascending, although for particular purposes the Sun, Moon, or Lot of Fortune may be used as well.

Banyan tree as long a symbol of good fortune. Ronghuafugui implication means. It was the best birthday gift!

Lauren has earned a fortune as a pioneer of what became known as lifestyle merchandising, or what the company calls 'merchantainment.

mr . weston was a man of unexceptionable character , easy fortune , suitable age , and pleasant manners.

Thank you for your help. May the new spring bring my blessings to you. Wish you a good health and a good fortune.

Because he doesn't have children and is unmarried, he is planning to leave his fortune to a personal foundation and an art museum.

I mean, you could just work your way through thousands of things doing trials and cost a fortune and it would be extremely uneconomic.

He had already accumulated considerable wealth of his own before marrying an heiress to the Wal-Mart fortune.

Your name is Dave. You have been an unknown adventurer who wants to try his luck and gain a little of that fortune so far.

While she could have stuck beside the cheating Woods and all his fortune, she decided to go her own way.

Mr Paulson plans to leave much of his fortune to environmental causes.

In short, they entertained me, not like what I was, but like what they thought I had been, namely, a widow lady of a great fortune.

The British press was never keen on Mills, even though McCartney denied she was a " gold-digger " chasing his fortune.

Many of them owed their good fortune in life to the Don and on this intimate occasion felt free to call him "Godfather" to his face.

At the end of the operation, someone was going to owe a small fortune -- and the insurers were insisting that it would not be them.

With your treasure of knowledge, a sound body and mind, and strong self- confidence, you are fully prepared to make your big fortune.

This works wonders in the case of the hard working Capricorn who could be vying for a rise in fortune through the chosen career.

If the direction of the "fortune deity" is at the "ill position" , people will choose to receive "happy deity" or "noble deity" instead.

Thus I got over the fraud of passing for a fortune without money, and cheating a man into marrying me on pretence of a fortune.

On her father's death, she came into possession of a large fortune.

He is once said to have decided to change the direction of traffic overnight [as a result of a fortune teller].

However, fortune is fickle, Sally left us forever, every time I thought of her and saw the old picture, I felt sorrowful and cried.

The fortune-teller predicted that I would marry a woman, who must be younger than me and whose name must be in two characters .

He drew as much as two thousand francs a year from it; this constituted nearly the whole of his fortune.

We start with Sherman in a Chinese restaurant , who gets a fortune that he's about to get caught by a trawler , which he does .

It was my good fortune to be linked with Mme. Curie through twenty years of sublime and unclouded friendship.

Fortune teller Kang Pan-seok, however, says 2007 is not the super lucky event it's been hyped up to be.

He lost his fortune and his home and lived out his life on the generosity of his sister-in-law and Yale.

Morocco Even for that I thank you , therefore , I pray you, lead me to the caskets to try my fortune .

It's costing me a fortune to run this thing all day.

The wheel of fortune did not favor him in the end.

Recently, he put advertisements in newspapers to find someone to "look after" his wife and his fortune after he dies.

Not so long ago, the young men in the village could make a living out of fishing not a fortune, but a living.

With perseverance and nerves of steel he made a fortune selling jewelry boxes, lost it all, and gained it back 20 times over.

As a Fortune 500 company with over 120 years of history, PPG regards its responsibility to society as one of its key company values.

Those quarters and halves can add up to a small fortune for a moderately active trader.

If you feel a sort of squashed up within a regular square and you want new sensations and twists of fortune, this game is made for you.

Many Chinese consult the fortune tellers to see whether particular names will bring them good luck or not.

After this experience, I never went with my friend for fortune telling again, but she continued to go occasionally.

He could not have bought that house if he had not inherited a big fortune from his father.

Looking at the sky, ancient Chinese divination by the stars good or bad fortune, the number of meteors this dark Xu wish.

The grandson of a shepherd, he made his fortune from a leveraged buy-out of a property developer, Nexity, in 2000-01.

He hatched plans to leave his fortune to charity and his art collection to a new museum in Berlin.

Fortune had smiled upon me to that degree, and I had thriven so much.

She was an opium addict who had numerous affairs and gambled away a lot of her family fortune.

That may be for the best, though; a year on Gliese 581 c lasts just 13 days, so we'd have to spend a fortune on calendars [source: Sample].

Trevor has been able to live off the fat of the land since he inherited his father's fortune.

In the years that followed, he made a fortune in real estate, buying undervalued homes and selling them for profit.

It really is her great fortune to have a good parents as you are, a sound growing environment and a nice sister.

The character is able to weather extended crises or disastrous changes in fortune, and survive anything less than a concentrated attack.

Fortune-telling of the general will say that when you make a fortune, it is clear this person is not telling the general public.

Simian Lv is a famous historian of modern China, His whole life was indifferent to fame and fortune, and he had been teaching for a living.

I feel as if the Fortune-teller was coming true, dear Pa, and the fair little man was turning out as was predicted.

The foundation claimed Ms Wang had wanted to leave her fortune to a charity and establish a Chinese Nobel prize.

There was a lazy man in the country of Chu. All day he was thinking of how to make a big fortune without much effort.

By some good fortune, the universe grants me at least one of those a day.

Fortune knocks at every man's door once in a while, but in a good many cases, the man is in a neighboring saloon and does not hear her.

Companies in search of the much-vaunted fortune at the bottom of the pyramid have to start not with consumers but with non-consumers.

He gave away most of his fortune to the poor.

He did not stumble into one single monopoly position, and his $62bn fortune was only amassed with remarkable skill.

As a result of some Chinese characteristic's reason, he finally and did not have the good fortune, to recall the swallow hugely to be big.

It is a truth well known to all the world that an unmarried man in possession of a large fortune must be in need of a wife.

He demanded openly and unequivocally the disfranchisement of every Negro no matter what his education or fortune.

But wild living exhausted his fortune and a severe famine reduced him to working for a pig farmer.

In a few years Francis dissipated his large fortune inherited from his grandfather.

Francis dissipated his large fortune inherited from his grandfather in a few years.

One example of this was an informal lunch with the editors of FORTUNE Magazine in New York.

I was very fortunate to see this, but in a way I created this fortune as I was always out there.

A single man of large fortune; four or five thousand a year.

It had been put together by lawyers and executives who supervised investigations at Fortune 500 companies.

lil poison is beginning to earn a fortune from tournaments , commercial sponsorships and celebrity endorsements.

And you know there is generally an uncle or a grandfather to leave a fortune to the second son.

Had he been in his right senses, he could not have thought of such a thing as begging you to give away half of your fortune.

If you come up with the goods to qualify for a promotion or land new business for the company, accept your good fortune.

By good fortune Hunter pulled a good oar. We made the water fly; and the boat was soon alongside, and I aboard the schooner.

Not in the least will she inherit fortune from her grandparents.

I also had the good fortune to be in those lectures, up in the balcony.

And big companies that face stagnant markets in the West are increasingly fascinated by the "fortune at the bottom of the pyramid" .

He was indifferent to his father's fortune, which was significant; it had been acquired through the process of vulcanizing tires for cars.

This seems to be some deep meaning behind the three dream, born on the second day of her fortune went to the dream.

Normally, an investor with an estimated $52bn fortune would not be a natural recipient of Christmas compassion.

His namesake, his great-uncle Anthony, was an alcoholic who made a small fortune smuggling Canadian whisky during Prohibition.

Thank you for your visit and wish you to companies and individuals, good luck and great fortune.

His aunt died and he came into a huge fortune.

Using that as a stepping stone, he made his next fortune buying and selling interests.

'I wish I had blue eyes and fair hair like him! I wish I behaved well, and was going to inherit a fortune! '

We would reject an arrangement that allowed some to enjoy financial good fortune if that good fortune did not serve the benefit of us all.

The littlest knight couldn't believe his good fortune until he was fully halfway across the ravine, balancing like an acrobat.

A man and his wife had the fortune to possess a goose which laid a golden egg everyday.

Though Mr. Romney has had no role in Bain's operations since 1999, his fortune is still closely linked to the company.

John Olson first found fortune as a 13-year-old when he volunteered to sit apart from his classmates on the airplane during a class trip.

She was in no condition for a standing fight, but she must manage one, or she would lose control of her own life, and her fortune.

If you know how to trade and want to make a quick fortune, futures are the place to be.

But good fortune did not last long. The King had daughters in plenty, one prettier than the other, but he had no son.

Her husband expend most of his fortune trying to cure her.

I felt like such a plonker. It cost a fortune and I knew my girlfriend would kill me.

It cannot be denied, but outward accidents conduce much to fortune: favour, opportunity, death of others, occasion fitting virtue.

He made a pretty fortune by selling all his land.

The Fortune 500 doesn't merely have lots of money, it concentrates lots of money where it's relatively easy to get at.

He made a fortune by means of industry.

Let him first be a man_; Fortune may remove him from one rank to another, as she pleases, he will be always found in his place.

Most entrepreneurs dream of turning their start-ups into giants (or at least of selling them to giants for a fortune).

"I cannot give a better idea of this operation than comparing it to a baker working and rolling his dough, " Fortune recalled.

His fortune went down the drain when he began drinking heavily and gambling in casinos .

A case to be heard next week by the Court of Appeal will determine the fate of the huge offshore fortune of John Charman, a financier.

Since coming to your country, the sole piece of fortune I have had was to tumble on a man like you.

He made a fortune, but lived a simple life, and although cheerful with company he was often sad in private.

All I will need is a sack and a pair of boots for my journey and I promise to bring you good fortune.

The character should have reasonable stockpiles of supplies, and is able to weather major crises or extended downturns in fortune.

In today's fast-paced city life, our hearts impetuous, and the disdain the pursuit of fame and fortune, we have been a lot, and lost a lot.

But Gates who made his vast fortune from a love affair with a machine, was not born to help the poorest people on the planet.

The happiness and unhappiness of men depend as much on their turn of mind as on fortune.

I hope, with all my heart, the young man may be a Weston in merit, and a Churchill in fortune.

James' s crops never paid for the expense of raising them, and he found that he had improved away every shilling of his fortune.

Reached by phone in his home province of Henan, Hao said he lost a small fortune, more than $3, 000, after being forced into the deal.

It took me three years to grasp the roots of my interest: My quest to understand the fortune cookie was really a quest to understand myself.

Clive lost a fortune on the stock market, but he went into it with his eyes open and remains quite philosophical about it.