Take the fortunes out of one or two fortune cookies.
Though Donald Trump would be wealthier today if he had simply taken the fortune he inherited from his father and invested it index funds, he holds out his business acumen as his chief qualification for the presidency. .
Specifically, we took the Fortune 500 Companies of 2011 and put an edge between two companies for each shared member on their boards of directors.
The liberal church has stumbled, taking the fortunes of Union along with it.
Yet it has taken the fortunes of more recent years — among them, Starkville has grown, and now has a larger population than Oxford — to prompt the town to accept Stark Vegas.
Take the good fortune that half the world speaks our language, which gives our comedy confidence, a global range and potentially global reach.
Did you know, for example, that when you take the list of Fortune 100 companies in 1966 and compare it with the Fortune 100 in 2006, 66 of those companies don't even exist anymore?
There's enthusiasm here, but not overexcitement - this is someone who's seen too much disaster in her career to take the vicissitudes of fortune personally.
After the death of their only son, Leland and Jane Stanford took the family fortune largely acquired from the construction and operation of the railroad and used it to build this university to benefit other people's children.
He also took the family fortune from $250,000 in the 1920s to an estimated $2 billion at his death in 1986.
