Words similar to fortunes

Example sentences for: fortunes

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After a brief 20th-century decline, Leith’s fortunes have revived.
By running against Giuliani (who has been reported in Vanity Fair to have a mistress--he denies it--and, by all accounts, has a sham marriage), the first lady could exact symbolic revenge on her philandering husband while advancing the fortunes of the Democratic party at the same time!
But when you consider that it took Dow Jones until 1997 to take Bethlehem Steel, a company whose industrial fortunes peaked sometime back in the 1930s, out of the index, getting Microsoft in there 13 years after it went public has to be seen as a minor success.
National fortunes depended on the feat, making it the Age of Reason's equivalent to finding the Holy Grail.
Several local fortunes were made based on this concept.