Mr. Greenberg is no stranger to the wild, caroming fortunes of reinsurance; A.I.G. owns 60percentt of TransAtlantic Re, another global leader in the field.
With few people to hold them accountable, pro athletes find it difficult on their own to negotiate their sudden rise in wealth, fame and status, says Carter, author of "Boys Gone Wild: Fame, Fortune and Deviance Among Professional Football Players".
It is, infamously, the last big unregulated industry, full of shady dealings and questionable practices, unwritten and often broken agreements, forgeries and price manipulations, wild tales of fortunes made and lost.
There were a huge, passionate crowd, wild fluctuations in fortune and a climax of excruciating tension.
But in the wilds of Afghanistan, fortunes can change in an instant.
This year they may again do well.Is this just a blip on a continent where wild swings in fortune are common, or the beginning of a genuine economic turnaround?
The other seven players who started the final day of the world series also swelled their bank accounts by $1m after 10 days of gruelling hand-to-hand combat, bad beats and wild swings of fortune.
"And the wild winds of fortune will carry me onward, Oh whithersoever they blow... Onward to glory I go!" It is a thrilling moment in both this 1965 musical and the performance by William Michals, who plays the dual roles of Cervantes and Don Quixote splendidly, with a ringing baritone voice and a fervent manner.
Before long, though, it takes on the coloration of a Theodore Dreiser novel — not quite an American tragedy but a sprawling, richly detailed study of ambition, desire and the wild swings of fortune that are included in the price of the capitalist ticket.
The report is the latest in a wild ride for CDMA's fortunes in China and Qualcomm's fortunes back home.
