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The woman was piling up fortunes right along , the man was spending them-- spending all his wife would give him a chance at, at any rate.

Observers have expressed skepticism over whether the company's fortunes can be turned around by a new CEO, but the market reacted favorably.

Either out of work or soon to be, they were all seeking a way to turn their fortunes around.

Before, they were all farmers who came to the factories to look for opportunities, or to provide good fortunes for their sons.

In her better fortunes, as in her old days of dependence, wherever she went she seemed to take sunshine and gladness with her.

An action-packed blend of humour and intrigue, following the fortunes of a gang of expert cons on the loose in London.

' That's because investments of a few million dollars apiece could no longer make a material difference to Berkshire's fortunes.

Even at the height of his private suffering, the international position of the United States took the precedence over his personal fortunes.

To help turn around his financial fortunes, Jackson was planning a major comeback in London this summer, 12 years since his last tour.

McKinna said he would be keeping a close eye on the Mariners Hyundai A-League fortunes as the season progressed.

One branch of big media whose fortunes may not be lifted by an Apple tablet, at least initially, is the TV business.

Twitter, however, was able to turn its fortunes around and is now just about as stable as any other online service.

They dressed in costumes typically made of animal heads and skins, and they played games of prediction, trying to tell one another fortunes.

At the top is a Daoist temple, with a few Daoists ready to give fortunes to visitors for a donation.

He made fortunes the moment the farmer found oil in his land.

That yen battle is far from over, and the fortunes of Japanese exporters like Sony, Honda and Toyota are up in the air as it plays out.

What could have caused such a precipitouschange in fortunes in just a matter of months?

He dared not to compete with me in forces, but often showed his outside help and fortunes before me to cause my appetite and saliva.

One of the best places toreflect on the city's changing fortunes is just across the road from the racecourse at the Happy Valley cemetery.

"The prosperity of the American people is more important than the political fortunes of any politician or political party, " he said.

The movie centres on a couple of gamblers who head to Las Vegas in an attempt to turn their fortunes around.

I have been disappointed in some of the performances recently and for your sake I hope that he is able to turn our fortunes around.

The fortunes of a certain Web site, in other words, might depend on how much it could pay network providers, rather than on its popularity.

He said the fates of Italy and Spain are intertwined, and integral to the euro's near-term fortunes.

In the surest sign that the neighbourhood's fortunes may be turning, private-sector property developers are beginning to move in.

As domestically rewarding as it may be, brinkmanship over Davis imperils the long-term fortunes of Pakistan's government.

But this means the bank's fortunes are increasingly tied to his own.

And with quiet determination and steely resolve, Coe began to turn the fortunes of London "s bid around. "

The investments in the Western banks mark a stunning reversal of fortunes that few would have predicted as little as a year ago.

Once upon a time there were three little pigs and the time came for them to leave home and seek their fortunes.

As the IOC's fortunes multiplied, Mr. Samaranch demanded he be referred to as 'your excellency, ' and insisted on lavish surroundings.

As the global economic recovery picked-up in 2010, the steel industry saw a reversal of fortunes as well.

Not even the gift of an injury-time penalty was enough to help Chelsea turn their fortunes around.

A tie-up with Coke, though, could well have provided Huiyuan with the added expertise needed for a real sea change in its fortunes.

Jonathan Loynes, chief European economist at Capital Economics, said the difference reflected the sudden shift in Europe's fortunes.

Such visions of amassing fortunes for earth are only illusions that the dark perpetrate to cause one to fail upon one's path of ascension.

In fact, the only emerging pattern is one of wildly see-sawing fortunes, as coastal towns change hands with almost metronomic regularity.

The fortunes of illegal enterprises over the past decade have been helped by the fact that they were low on the law-and-order agenda.

"The old man is in good health, but at his age anything can happen, " says a heir to one of the region's great fortunes.

It seems fitting that it was the acquisition of an Indian firm that sealed the turnaround in Mr Sarin's fortunes.

Through all his changing fortunes, he never lost courage.

They were quickly followed by chancers and adventurers who were able to make fortunes by devising their own version of the South Sea Bubble.

The tidings of my high fortunes having had a heavy fall , had got down to my native place before I got there .

Times Square - first known as Long Acre Square - has spent the past century under strongly fluctuating fortunes .

Much of it has been more recently created, and many families are still much more closely connected to the source of their fortunes.

This section was dropped from the biog once the company's fortunes dived and now no mention at all is made of financial results.

Wagoner has been criticized for his handling of G. M. 's declining fortunes, but he has said he intends to stay on.

Oh, that salvation for Israel would come out of Zion! When God restores the fortunes of his people, let Jacob rejoice and Israel be glad!

Is money wealth? The number of men and women who can now be laying away small fortunes is almost incredible.

When the cheetah cubs are about 18 months old, they're old enough to leave their mother and seek their own fortunes.

In the years since 1968, the club's fortunes had not only declined but, worse, those of its greatest rival, Liverpool FC, had risen.

In the long term, the country's fortunes are closely tied to its banks and, by extension, to Greece's unfolding fiscal woes.

Long experience has taught me that the crux of my fortunes is whether I can radiate good will toward my audience.

But our views are blurred by the whirlwinds of markets, as firms and fortunes, the commercial "empires" of this era, are lost and made.

Having spent fortunes on branding, credit-card firms and banks do not want to see other payment systems gain ground.

Mr. Obama knows his political fortunes depend largely on the resilience of the U. S. economy and its ability to generate jobs.

The division was placed front and centre by Mr Hayward in his effort to transform the company's fortunes after the departure of Lord Browne.

As he and Mr. Buffett give away more of their fortunes to charity, the individual Waltons could well wind up cracking the top five.

Reversals of Fortunes : Carrie stands in front of her original apartment closet ; not the coveted walk -in closet of the film .

The recession and, in particular, the financial crisis are at the heart of this reversal of fortunes.

As the fortunes of his various potential challengers have waxed and waned, Mr Romney has maintained a statesmanlike indifference.

Her fortunes became the subject of a tussle between Wang's family and feng shui master Tony Chan, who was also her alleged lover.

In a few years' time, the relative economic fortunes of America and the euro area could be reversed.

The Detroit firms' fortunes are even more closely linked to the general health of the economy than competitors'.

That change in thinking has led to a dramatic shift, not only in the fortunes of Monterey Bay, but other places around the world.

Forbes' wealth team will be watching closely as she looks to turn HP's fortunes around.

They farm opium and get a few hundred dollars, while across the river, fortunes are made.

And just like many Greek islands, that bit of China has a long memory of sending its brightest sons overseas to seek their fortunes.

Naturally, we have no friends, we have egotistical lovers who spend their fortunes not on us, as they claim, but on their vanity.

In a country where tales of overnight fortunes abound, Mr Huang's story is one of the most remarkable .

Since Michael Dell returned in 2007 to the helm of the company he founded, he has overhauled its operations in a bid to revive its fortunes.

The outcome of that bitter 1960 showdown altered the economic fortunes of tens of thousands of film actors.

"By contrast, " says Mr Beresford, "many of the British-born rich have seen their fortunes clipped back as the economic outlook worsens. "

Yes, in so many words; and it must BE so, for the abb knows correctly the amount of all the largest fortunes in Europe.

Roosevelt could also have talked about how legitimate fortunes can be made out of goods and services associated with vice.

Many banks wasted fortunes trying to get there.

He is ready to do anything on earth to better his fortunes .

In any case, their fortunes seem to be changing.

Vast fortunes were spent to ensure that corporations were allowed to operate without profit-stunting restrictions.

But in the early 1990s, a reversal began to occur in the fortunes of the two countries.

These methods worked, and made investors fortunes for a few years while the market was booming.

It was Huizhou merchants who, generation after generation, accumulated large fortunes and then spent them on the land of Huizhou.

The varying fortunes of Britain and America reflect the peculiarities of each market. There have been fewer forced sellers in Britain.

A few businessmen who borrowed money against the security of their assets have seen their fortunes almost disappear.

Ostler gives an account of the fluctuating fortunes of other major world languages.

And almost a quarter of the 2006 rich owed their fortunes to the finance sector, compared with less than a tenth back in 1982.

After amassing fortunes, early employees start walking out the door.

A Chinese recession combined with a European slowdown will not augur well for the fortunes of workers anywhere.

Pundits are at a loss to explain football's shifting fortunes, but much of it can be ascribed to just one factor -- last summer's World Cup.

Their fortunes may be returning, but they have lost their sense of stability , control and trust in institutions.

Nobody can imagine that it was the mirrors that helped Lao Krib amass great fortunes.

But Mr Milner is nevertheless excited to link his fortunes to those of one of his inspirations.

Analysts and fanboys continually promise or hope that a revival in fortunes is just around the corner, but it never comes.

Such a turnaround in fortunes explains Bruno Alves's frustration on the pitch last Sunday night.

Yet many managers are under pressure to turn their firms' fortunes round fast. Hence the predilection for swift and sizeable lay-offs.

In later life I have seen how a literature has been built up on the subject of fortunes to be made out of the raising of chickens.

In recent decades, members of several industrial dynasties have spent parts of their fortunes on a conservative agenda.

It used to be that marketing to the masses cost a fortune, or sometimes, two fortunes.

The children of some of China's leaders have amassed huge fortunes in murky ways.

So Mr Sarkozy's fortunes might revive, but only if he has something to say that distinguishes him from the left.

No wonder the public feels that Wall Street's current fortunes are a case of heads I win, tails you lose.

Everyone knows you are the one who will fail first, and worst, if the three of you set out to seek your fortunes.

The big theme of his new book is the interplay between Hitler's personality and Nazi Germany's fortunes on the battlefield.

The investment firm, which bought Simmons in 2003, has pocketed around $77 million in profit, even as the company's fortunes have declined.

Tycoons: self-made adventurers who enliven the business landscape; as opposed to despots who have stolen their fortunes from the poor.

Legrottaglie has often stated that his change in fortunes on the football field were down to his faith in Jesus Christ.

I shall borrow their example and wish everyone happiness and good fortunes!

On the fortunes of the dynasty of care concerns, in Kang's poetry shows that the psychological state of deep depression.

Some of the first European Americans had come to the new continent to worship God in their own way, others to seek their fortunes.

But the ruse became increasingly difficult to maintain as the company's fortunes dwindled.

This tale of two bond auctions is a parable for the contrasting fortunes of near-stagnant rich economies and fast-growing emerging markets.

As the economy growth rapidly, fortunes concentrate in personal hands opening opportunity for the emerging of private-enterprises.

I have meditated more on the conditions and fortunes of Lucullus, Metellus, and Scipio than I have about many of our own men.

Dietmar Hamann today insisted Rafael Benitez remains the right man to turn around Liverpool's fortunes.

Globalization, in other words, allowed China and Japan to amass the fortunes they have been lending to the United States.

Can you think of some other Americans who have given away a large part of their fortunes to support a worthy cause?

Fortunes can swing wildly over these last three holes, making it one of the most interesting closing stretches in the game.

The island's fortunes sank as it lost business to its arch-rival, Singapore.

In the aftermath of the Great Recession, the divergent fortunes of the western and Asian powers have become an overarching theme.

Almost overnight, the Facebook Class fired up the careers and fortunes of more than two dozen students and teachers here.

Over the past two years Western banks have made fortunes on minority investments in Chinese banks.

The differences over the timing of budget cuts reflects in part the different fortunes of the economies on either side of the Atlantic.

Online advertising is picking up, encouraging firms that have hitched their fortunes to it.

The room was most dear to her, and' she would not change it for the fortunes of the world.

But no one anticipated the iMac, the computer that kickstarted Apple's fortunes and propelled the company to where it is today.

The airline indicated its fortunes may have improved as it announced a Rmb981m profit for the first quarter of this year.

I simply wrap next_fortune to the beginning when all fortunes have been read.

He made two fortunes and lost them, dying a poor man.

In this interview, we ask Hively about the fortunes of his magazine and the state of the illustration field.

The train and bus stations of Victoria, where many migrants arrive to seek their fortunes, are even closer.

Microsoft is hoping its new mobile phone software, to be launched in October, will revive its fortunes in the market for smart phones.

Black- eyed gipsy girls , hooded in showy handkerchiefs, sallied forth to tell fortunes .

This was it, I thought -- the moment of truth, the secret to our fortunes.

More than a few fortunes have been built on corruption, and their owners stay in the shadows.

He hope that this circumambulation could bring back good fortunes for his family.

If the trend spreads, it may trigger a destructive price war that sends everyone's fortunes in a steep downward spiral.

They are obstinately holding on and having their last gasps hoping for some revival of their fortunes, but it is not to be.

And for many of us, our fortunes do indeed lie at the bottom of the pyramid.

They have to be aware that the people who come to the ground spend fortunes in relation to what they earn.

I wear no uniform and wave no sword and the fortunes of the Confederacy mean nothing at all to me.

Outrageous fortunes, gigantic egos and persistent scrutiny by the media all conspire to doom even the strongest of Hollywood relationships.

Presenter Steve Leonard follows the fortunes of a plucky pack of African wild dogs for new series Incredible Journeys.

Next, we turn to one city's solution to the economic crisis. Toledo, Ohio has seen its fortunes fade as the auto industry has declined.

With Microsoft's Windows 7 scheduled to launch in late October, that could bode well for the company's fortunes.

at the beginning of the year, how many of you out there has the habit of checking out your fortunes for the coming year? ?

Now, as investors gain confidence in an economic rebound, the fortunes of individual commodities are diverging.

Fortunes have been made by being a cash buyer at the end of a bear market.

Red is considered an auspicious color among the Chinese, and an essential component of feng shui, the Chinese belief of improving fortunes.

But today, a disruption to family fortunes can no longer be made up with extra income from an otherwise-stay-at-home partner.

One day one of God's messengers descended to the world and happened to meet an eminent monk who was telling fortunes for two boys.

The decision to review the initial determination in the Kodak investigation shows that fortunes can change at any stage of an ITC process.

Last week, in Tucson, a bunch of billionaires, led by Warren Buffet and Bill Gates, gathered to talk about giving away their fortunes .

In time, Adrian Cheng will likely inherit one of the largest fortunes, and real-estate-to-retail empires, in Asia.

The currency policy boosts the fortunes of export companies by keeping prices lower than they otherwise would be.

The Hurun report notes that healthcare fortunes are on the rise, "primarily due to increased market share in traditional Chinese medicine" .

Yet it is only a matter of months ago that fortunes were reversed.

Yet Bulgari is betting that the city of 4m people also now boasts many new fortunes waiting to be spent on luxury watches and jewels.

He'd made several fortunes as an engineer and inventor; he founded and then sold his first software company while he was still at MIT.

However, the reversal of fortunes is not forecast to be mirrored across Wall Street.

But if it fails, more Republican lawmakers will decide that they can no longer bind their electoral fortunes so closely to Mr Bush.

"Mamma, " said one of Misses Gray's daughters. "Please read our fortunes in the tea leaves! Tell us about our futures! "

Both Sony and Panasonic partly blamed the appreciating yen for a reversal of fortunes in their businesses.

But since then Mr Pandit has moved several former Morgan Stanley colleagues to key roles in an effort to restore Citi's fortunes.

During his tenure, Samaranch helped revitalize the economic fortunes of the IOC through global sponsorship deals and marketing of TV rights.

However, it was also in Vienna that Lanner and Strauss made their fortunes as bandleaders and composers.

With dreams of improving their lives and finding their fortunes, thousands of farmers flooded into Beijing.

Yet Britain's economic fortunes are pinned on small, export-oriented enterprises of this kind, often found in unlikely places.

Those who do not make fortunes nor get promotion complain about their bad luck.

The literature written in England during the Middle English period reflects fairly accurately the changing fortunes of English.

But the fortunes of his constituents depend on the casinos, where one in four residents is employed.

of persons used to large fortunes- Edith Wharton; reckless squandering of public funds.

Mr. Schultz says the company has turned its fortunes around, allowing it to now shift its attention to international markets.

There is a direct correlation between a nation's cultural soft power and the state of its political and economic fortunes.

But people are more resentful when bankers are rewarded for failure, or when fortunes are made by rent-seeking rather than enterprise.

When others say that you will be constantly showered with good fortunes, don't take it seriously. Use give, feel, begin, and expect.

After this, she had led a wandering life both in England and Scotland, sometimes under color of telling fortunes.

In Life times (1994), another film by Zhang Yimou, the spoiled son of a wealthy family gambles away all of his father's fortunes.

I have several Mavs' fans who get very angry at me when I group the Mavericks fortunes together from the last 5 years.

Sports stars have had mixed fortunes when returning to competition after a break.

China's booming economy has lifted the financial fortunes of most of its citizens, but some have gained far more than others.

As a youth in a large family, he suffered many insecurities due to the family's constantly changing fortunes.

There's nothing like a risk-off day for the dollar's fortunes; the greenback is up over 2% against the euro.

So broad is the ownership of stock shares that owners can easily follow the fortunes of the market on a daily or even hourly basis.

However, sailing experts say many are also being bought by young entrepreneurs who have made fortunes taking their companies public.

The fortunes of the petroleum industry have since been propelled largely by the popularity of the automobile.

Facing south on behalf of the sky, many fortunes, good Feng Shui.

Patrick McGovern, T. Boone Pickens, Dennis Washington and Sheldon Adelson all started off slinging newspapers before making their fortunes.

Thus China and emerging-market economies cannot fully decouple from the fortunes--or misfortunes--of the advanced economies.

However , in its latter years, when economic fortunes turned south, the LDC was constrained by three major hindrances.

Predicting economic fortunes is not much more certain than predicting football results.

The fortunes of New Orleans have always been tied to the river, but the river can also pose a threat.

The fortunes of his business empire are bound up with his political life.

Are the vast fortunes being made in emerging economies the result of productive entrepreneurship or of rent-seeking?

Before gambling, the fortunes of Indian tribes depended on being as far from non-Indians as possible.

"The old warrior king was . . . ruminating on his gloomy fortunes" (Washington Irving).

This insistence on ideological purity may explain why the fortunes of the party have disappointed of late.

Gates and Allen have both taken the "pledge, " among 60 or so of the very rich who've made a public vow to give away most of their fortunes.

Teaching location plays a role in the fortunes of business schools as they increasingly take programmes to clients.

In fact, the fortunes of China bobbed up and down with corruption levels of government officials.

Germany's recovery in cost competitiveness has been crucial to its reviving fortunes.

But like the heirs to many family fortunes, he has turned cautious and conservative.

That Obama's fortunes rose as the markets sank shows how central temperament has become in the homestretch of the presidential race.

Can they really turn around the economic fortunes of the West?

The move would represent an astonishing turnaround in fortunes for the striker, who was relegated with Newcastle United only six weeks ago.

The group's fortunes were even harder hit by the capture in 1999 of its leader, Abdullah Ocalan, by Turkish secret agents in Nairobi.

Yao told me these young players suddenly start to earn enormous salaries, but have no training in how to manage their fortunes.

Wether we like it or not, all of our fortunes are tied together. We are truly interdependent.

Such diverging economic fortunes are complicating inflation-fighting efforts in the developing world, economists say.

They also gathered to relish their changing political fortunes, courtesy of the Obama administration.

But each year thousands also seek to make their fortunes in a middle-income country growing only half as fast as China.

The move would tie Mr Obama's fortunes to Afghanistan much as those of his predecessor, George W. Bush, were linked to Iraq.

In the long run, big fortunes are difficult to hold on to.

When God restores the fortunes of his people, let Jacob rejoice and Israel be glad!

After the swap, Sacramento's fortunes changed almost immediately, and they would make the Playoffs in each of the next eight seasons.

The fortunes of insurgent groups wax and wane, their support base shrinking and expanding depending on how vulnerable sectarian groups feel.

Technology has upended the business models that built the fortunes of the museum's founding partners.

story to illustrate, fortunes change, the strong alternating there will also be needed when the weak.

The story of the fortunes of banks and bankers during the following decade is an altogether different one.

A third and equally significant development has drawn less attention, namely the surging fortunes of South Korean automaker Hyundai.

The striker recently told LFC Weekly he is expecting his fortunes to vastly improve under Kenny Dalglish over the second half of the season.

Finally, they must head beyond the ends of the Earth. They will fight a great battle to decide their fates and their fortunes.

Tonight I speak to you at your firesides wherever you may be, or whatever your fortunes are.

The Japanese will be hoping for the same bounce back in their own fortunes.

Emerging-market plutocrats are nervous about keeping their fortunes at home, lest the political winds change.

Hustle follows the fortunes of a gang of five expert con artists let loose on the streets of London.

Their changing fortunes reflect major currency movements during the year.

This growth of private fortunes is the result of several factors.

But by its decision to file the civil suit, Jakarta has revived efforts to track down the Suharto family fortunes.

Continuing power cuts are a big reason for a recent dip in the government's popularity and a revival in the Socialists' fortunes.

"There's a tremendous turnaround in the fortunes of the PML (N), " newspaper editor Rashid Rehman told Dawn Television.

The decline in the fortunes of Nintendo's products has contributed to an overall gloomy picture in the traditional games business.

However, AOL's fortunes in advertising are worryingly dependent on its declining access business.

These days a revival in the fortunes of manufacturers is widely regarded as essential for a sustained export-led recovery.

Status Offline American fortunes in Iraq are ever more dependent on feuding Iraqis who seem, at times, almost heedless to American appeals.

He was at the zenith of his fortunes.

The rapid shift in fortunes reflects a change in the forces powering the global technology sector economic post-crisis.

That has not stopped them amassing ever bigger fortunes, although the global downturn has taken a toll.

Consumers say they're not in despair because, despite the dreadful headlines, their own fortunes still feel pretty good.

It also likely boosts the fortunes of those spending, making the higher debt level more manageable.

The web-based retailer's decision to enter the music market could bolster the fortunes of the largest record companies.

It was clear that the Varnum fortunes were at the ebb, but the two women did what they could to preserve a decent dignity.

Even large fortunes can dissipate after a generation or two.

Charity has grown only recently in China, where the number of billionaires is growing but personal fortunes are a relatively new phenomenon.

Here you can create silly and sometimes meaningful fortunes and share them with your friends online.

The fortunes of companies from Detroit carmakers to Brazilian iron miners depend on spending by China's consumers and corporations.

We'll sit on the stair landing like we did at the last ball and get Mammy Jincy to come tell our fortunes again.

Traditionally it is an important occasion when people offer sacrifices to the "Kitchen God" who looks after the family's fortunes.

And over the centuries Venice's glass industry experienced changing fortunes.

Many have been ruined by their fortunes, and many have escaped ruin by the want of fortune.

WORKERS waiting at airports: some flying off to seek modest fortunes, others returning to poor homelands whose main export is people.