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The effect is the same for search phrases like "poverty," "wealth distribution," and of course, those unfortunate fortunates, the "1 percent."
Denver Nicks: Occupy the State of the Union Denver Nicks 2012
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The effect is the same for search phrases like "poverty," "wealth distribution," and of course, those unfortunate fortunates, the "1 percent."
Denver Nicks: Occupy the State of the Union Denver Nicks 2012
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Doctors, high-priced attorneys, Wall Streeters, patent holders, professors with lots of savings and good pensions, corporate chiefs, wealthy widows, people who sold expensive houses elsewhere, and other fortunates call it home.
Shock of Gray Ted C. Fishman 2010
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Why are people like Tellmemore, who are always complaining about offering their hard-earned PB&J sandwiches to the lazy, less-fortunates around them, always so fat?
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I am one of the unfortunate fortunates who is subject to the rate but whose job ties him to this country.
Smoking Guns and the Morality of Parliamentary Privilege 2009
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The American public has been largely protected from the first hand accounts of those fortunates who have managed to process out of our prison camp in Cuba.
My feet in the air: Congressional Recidivism, the Guantanamo Variations 2008
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I would just say that I am one of the fortunates who have had their old concrete lampposts replaced.
en-lightening Valleys Mam 2007
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Maybe if we called the disaffected “fortunates” it would improve their attitudes?
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Throughout the day, the heads of the fortunates caught outdoors were pelted with explosive epiphanies and intuitive leaps.
Oh, The Ideas, They Fell Down Like Rain Matthew Sanborn Smith 2006
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Throughout the day, the heads of the fortunates caught outdoors were pelted with explosive epiphanies and intuitive leaps.
Archive 2006-11-01 Matthew Sanborn Smith 2006
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