fortunes

• “I remember that what we call our fortunes, good or ill, are but the wise dealings and distributions of a”

  Fisherman's Luck and Some Other Uncertain Things

• “Here the artist presents Marxism Today, an installation following the uncertain fortunes of Marxist-Leninist teachers from the former communist East Germany.”

  The Guardian: This week's new exhibitions

• “Generations ago, industrialists and financiers extracted fortunes from the copper and gold mines dug into the canyons near here.”

  POLITICAL HOT TOPICS: September 17, 2009

• “The next few weeks and months could be critical—for both the government's longer-term fortunes and Mr. Gandhi's own political future—with key tests in Parliament and a series of state elections early next year.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Indians Urge Political Heir to Take Top Role

• “As consumers, we benefit as innovators make personal fortunes from the exceptional execution of these shared ideas.”

  The Wall Street Journal: The More Exciting Story of Facebook

• “To say it was not an effort to improve their own fortunes is asking too much of a set of men who have carefully used political influence and control to commandeer the most important resources of their time.”

  Matthew Yglesias » Alan Reynolds Embraces Deflation

• “To answer your question as a critic and not a novelist, the most obvious difference between England circa 1910 and England now is that the sudden drop in fortunes that Leonard Bast experiencesthe free-fall from simply "working-class" to "economic and social oblivion" is not quite as swift nor as absolute as it used to be.”

  A Conversation with Zadie Smith about On Beauty

• “He said the fates of Italy and Spain are intertwined, and integral to the euro's near-term fortunes.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Europe's Debt Still a Focus for Euro Traders

• “The blood of our sons and daughters fighting over the years to give Donald Trump the freedom to amass his fortunes is desicrated by his lying loyalty to this foreign lover of terrorists.”

  Evening Buzz: Gadhafi Tent Controversy

• “The Senate there instead of being elected for a term of six years, and of being unconfined to particular families or fortunes, is an hereditary assembly of opulent nobles.”

  Matthew Yglesias » If The Founders Had Wanted a Supermajority Requirement for the Senate, They Could Have Put One in the Constitution

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