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Or perhaps a long run of good
fortune
has left the financial market dominated by cockeyed optimists, who have finally figured that out.
Good plumbers cost a small fortune, because here, too, the technology has evolved very slowly.
Four areas will be of vital importance:1. managing relations with Russia:2. defusing the transatlantic burden-sharing debate3. dealing with the effects of France’s policy toward NATO4. coping with the dilutive effects of expansionRelations between Russia and NATO appear to have benefitted from a convergence of skill and good
fortune.
Some big businesses in privileged positions would make a
fortune
from exploiting this rather rigged market.
During his 32-year dictatorship, Congo's former president Joseph Mobutu accumulated a personal
fortune
estimated at $4 billion, while his government ran up a $12 billion foreign debt.
Then, as Chinese were wondering why 2008, a year of supposed good
fortune
marked by the lucky number eight, had started with so much misfortune, a deadly earthquake struck Sichuan province, killing 80,000 people and leaving millions homeless.
Highlighting the dramatic economic effects of oil producers’ reversal of fortune, the figure below compares the sum of the balances (surplus or deficit) in the general government’s budget and the external balance, as measured by the current account, for 18 oil producers, with both components scaled to nominal GDP.
The most adventurous and ambitious could seek fame and
fortune
in the colonies of Africa and Asia.
But, instead of buying villas, yachts, or soccer clubs abroad, he invested his
fortune
in Russia.
It is flawed economically, because carbon taxes will cost a
fortune
and do little, and it is flawed politically, because negotiations to reduce CO2 emissions will become ever more fraught and divisive.
Like Trump, Berlusconi is a businessman who made his first
fortune
in real estate.
But investors betting on a quick reversal of
fortune
for Brazil are likely to be disappointed.
It has also brought the one-man campaign, courtesy of the sheer power of a private
fortune
and consisting chiefly of paid advertising (Ross Perot and Steve Forbes).
To be sure,
fortune
and success are inseparable in politics.
His foremost rival, Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, a former president who Ahmedinejad defeated to win the post, has had a remarkable reversal of fortune, reemerging as leader of the Assembly of Experts, the powerful body that elects Iran’s Supreme Leader and that can even remove a Supreme Leader from office.
And start-up loans from Europe would make it much easier to seek one’s
fortune
back home.
They get bigger returns when things go well and receive state support when
fortune
turns against them: heads they win, tails we lose.
Stability will come only when economic opportunities exist, when a bulging generation of young men can find jobs and support families, rather than seeking their
fortune
in violence.
Having earned many millions of dollars working for dictators and thugs around the world, including Ferdinand Marcos in the Philippines and Jonas Savimbi in Angola, in recent decades he made much of his
fortune
working for Russian oligarchs and the Russian-backed former president of Ukraine, Viktor Yanukovych.
If children have no choice but to return from primary school to the farm, why send them to school at all?Providing secondary education need not cost a
fortune.
Almost not believing his good fortune, Nemeth asked the million-dollar question.
But
fortune
favored the brave, and victory solidified her reputation for decisiveness and raw courage.
I had the good
fortune
to collaborate with Rudi in writing two textbooks and several articles.
No single factor explains this reversal of
fortune.
Part of today’s good
fortune
is payback for years of weak demand.
The hard part is the practical, large-scale implementation of broad concepts in a way that does not disrupt our energy-dependent world economy and does not cost a
fortune
to achieve.
To be sure, the Sufis have had some good
fortune.
The game of hazard which he plays is furnished with many zeros,” which represent “the increment [by which] the world’s wealth has fallen short of...savings,” owing to “the losses of those whose courage and initiative have not been supplemented by exceptional skill or unusual good
fortune.
But if effective demand is adequate, average skill and average good
fortune
will be enough.”
What good
fortune
it is that China's most sacred, encompassing, and powerful doctrine built around the triumvirate of "the interests of the majority of the people" "advanced culture," and "advanced productive forces" found one political party to be its representative!
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