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Fortunes were made by respected Bahamian families turned liquor merchants, rum-running boat captains, notorious criminals, shady ladies, and the Bahamas government (which collected duty on temporarily imported drink).
Homegrown fortunes have never impressed the establishment.
Combine those fortunes with Clinton's support of affirmative action and his appointments of blacks to Cabinet positions--and 12 years of Republican assaults on equal opportunity--and it should come as no surprise that blacks are enthusiastic about this president.
We shall have to wait and see if the changes of Margaret Thatcher's political fortunes are reflected in the language as spoken in Britain, for one might be tempted to infer that the assertiveness of her tenure was partly responsible for the demise of the subjunctive in contrary-to-fact constructions--at least in those perceived by her to be contrary to what she perceived as fact.
, Clerks , and Kids . All went on to make small fortunes at the box office.