In addition, as Clapton notes between songs, Cream "didn't go on for very long - the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune cut us off in our prime" - but their 2 year career was responsible for generating a lot of concepts that leave you wondering whether listening to rock music is such an edifying way to spend your time.
Gay, Roman Catholic, Harvard-educated and the Filipino-American heir to a sugar fortune, Ossorio cut against just about every stereotype of the Abstract Expressionist painter.
The change in fortunes reflected cuts that were imposed over the past two years, a temporary tax surcharge approved by voters in November that expires in seven years, and a general improvement in the state's economy.
By this time next year I will have a fortune, have cut the throats of my best friends, have kicked my inferiors in the pants, have refused to be connected with any strangers except properly identified ones, and be loved and respected by all.
In a bitter irony for Democrats, two of the people who stand to gain the most from the fracas are none other than Charles and David Koch, the Republican billionaires who have tapped one of the world's largest fortunes to cut down Democrats in elections and fuel conservative reforms.
If a series of hurricanes or other catastrophes do not arrive to cut profits, insurers end up competing away their good fortune with price cuts.
Faced with the risk that a ship might be turned back, Brazil's beef barons might decide they cannot afford to send a small fortune in prime cuts across the Atlantic.Ordinary Europeans are the victims in all this.
Family fortune soon faltered; cut losses, sold out after losing billions.
Intelligence services concluded after 9/11 that Bin Laden had no great fortune and had been cut off from any inheritance from his wealthy family by the mid-1990s.
The downdraft in oil prices has cut his fortune some since the 2014 Forbes 400.
