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Fortune
noun
Destiny, especially favorable.
Exact(60)
First-round opponent: [10] Andrea Petkovic (GER) Let's reiterate, with 17 women in the women's singles draw, all but three unseeded, there was a pretty good chance fortune wasn't going to favor most of them.
Wood, the multimillionaire who made his fortune founding travel and accommodation service Wotif.com, is the founding investor but does not hold shares or board membership.
That meaning is clearly emerging – but only as "possible" rise of fortune; a dream, not a promise.
Von Furstenberg's life story is a biopic waiting to happen: the self-made millionaire who married into (and then divorced from) German royalty, partied with Andy Warhol at Studio 54, lost her fortune and won it again, got namechecked in a Dolly Parton song (Working Girl) and is still, at 66, having a high old time as a grand dame of New York.
If McLean was hoping for a similar piece of fortune, he was to be disappointed.
Paulson is renowned for betting against an overheated housing market before the financial crisis netted his fund $15bn and cemented his personal fortune, estimated by Forbes at $11.2bn.
Related: All 68 NCAA tournament schools ranked by coolest alumnus We could hardly believe our good fortune when, for the first time in history, each of the four No1 seeds made the Final Four.
I wanted Labor no longer to be a hostage to fortune but to have a policy that could last.
"You'd pay a fortune for this in a hotel," said my partner, trying not to get the mud on her lips.
If the deal goes ahead, the students' new landlords will be Mikhail Fridman, Russia's second wealthiest man, worth an estimated £9.3bn; German Khan, said by Forbes magazine to be worth about £6bn; and Alexei Kuzmichev, with a fortune of about £4.5bn.
A 45-year-old suburban Minneapolis man wasted little time Thursday in claiming one-third of a $448m Powerball jackpot, coming forward only hours after realizing he had won to reveal his good fortune to the world.
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