In his first thirteen years there, Howells produced three exceptional novels — "A Hazard of New Fortunes" (1890), "The World of Chance" (1893), and "Letters Home" (1903) — that depict a city of chance, fortune, disorder, chaos.
Omitting the few conspicuous instances in which actual earners of money make extraordinary fortunes by exceptional personal gifts or strokes of luck, the existing differences of income among workers are not individual but corporate differences.
For a decade or more eastern Europe has benefited from exceptional (and mostly unforeseen) good fortune.
Tinoco's success in moving from a 2-year college to the scientific mainstream reflects both his exceptional tenacity and his good fortune in meeting the right people.
Exhibiting courage and exceptional resourcefulness, he also experienced amazing good fortune and escaped a number of hazardous incidents without harm; the more superstitious sailors regarded him as invulnerable.
"His desire for the fortune-teller had become the first exceptional event in a life so tawdry and yet so ordinary as to have no texture whatsoever".
Healy-Tangney's teaching of managerial communication has been shaped by more than thirty years in the corporate sector working as an executive coach to improve Fortune 500 organizations by transforming leaders into exceptional communicators.
It had always been possible for exceptional young people to strike out and make quick fortunes.
The week's good fortune also included the discovery of two more "exceptional" white diamonds, an 813-carat stone and a 374-carat stone.
An intelligent young woman with a fiery temper and shrewd mind, Maria Amélia was described by a teacher as having, "without knowing, an exceptional talent for dialectic, an ability that would make the fortune of a young law student".
