Born to great wealth in Germany, he ended up in Dachau, only to be released when he signed over the family's great fortune for a single mark.
Dos Santos, 73, has been president since 1979 and has been accused of presiding over one of the world's most corrupt governments, amassing a great fortune for himself, his family and friends, while two-thirds of his country lives below the poverty line.
It was Mr. Reagan's great fortune for most of his life and presidency to be popular, and the outpouring of tributes in the 10 years since Alzheimer's disease left him adrift in a world of his own suggested that his popularity only grew with time.
Years ago, when I was first working in the film business, I had the great fortune of being an assistant for the most brilliant editor, Jan.
* * * I've had the great fortune of having my bathroom schedule synced with Maria for over two years.
I have the great fortune of having a great mom.
Noreena Hertz (writer and academic) The Pearl by John Steinbeck, One of my favourite childhood books, it's the simply written story of a Mexican pearl fisher who finds a pearl worth a great fortune, only for it to bring him tragedy and evil.
But it is our great fortune that for the last five years or so, I've been traveling to a neck of Elizabeth's woods and my daughter Blair's hometown San Francisco at least once a year, and we get to hang together, eat and drink, and tell our sacred stories.
As an undergraduate at Princeton University, I had the great fortune to play for Pete Carril, the Hall of Fame coach, who kept telling us: "Life or basketball, it's all the same".
Mae can't believe her luck, her great fortune to work for the most influential company in the world — even as life beyond the campus grows distant, even as a strange encounter with a colleague leaves her shaken, even as her role at the Circle becomes increasingly public.
Of the Circle's protagonist, the book's blurb says: "Mae can't believe her luck, her great fortune to work for the most influential company in the world -- even as life beyond the campus grows distant, even as a strange encounter with a colleague leaves her shaken, even as her role at the Circle becomes increasingly public.
