Mr. Young tries mightily to disguise his achievements, but fortune insists on smiling.
But the fall out from Dunne's cocaine binge would tortuously but relentlessly, destroy the achievements, the fortune and the entire reputation of a man who was once frequently compared to the legendary, romantic IRA leader Michael Collins.
But football doesn't work like most of the rest of the world, with small fillips of achievement and good fortune and incremental rises in income.
Mr. Meyer opens with Gibbon's words about how the vicissitudes of fortune defeat the most magisterial human achievements.
In 2010 he was awarded the David Packard Medal of Achievement and was named by Fortune one of the Top 50 People in Business as well as one of the Smartest People in Tech.
In 2008, the Department of Interior Office of Inspector General released a report titled, "Interior Misstated Achievement of Small Business Goals by Including Fortune 500 companies".
They were often showered by good fortune, but relied at crucial moments upon achievements of individual will.
That's quite nice, but I'm not sure if that's an achievement or just a stroke of good fortune.
The ASBL was forced to file suit after the agency refused to release information on contracting officers referenced in a July 2008 Inspector General (IG) Report titled, "Interior Misstated Achievement of Small business Goals by Including Fortune 500 Companies".
It's a frankly stupendous achievement, born out of a bit of good fortune.
