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In spite of this, however, a few company founders made vast fortunes when their companies were bought out at an early stage in the dot-com stock market bubble.
However, it could be argued that the subsequent fortunes of other Eastern-Bloc automobile manufacturers such as Lada, AutoVAZ, and of Škoda Works itself – once Škoda Auto's parent company – suggested that Volkswagen's involvement was not necessarily a result of poor judgement.
The fortunes of Sears & Roebuck declined in the 1970s as the company lost market share ; its management grew more cautious.
The fall of the Soviet Union did not help Tatra's fortunes, as the company made no inroads in Western Europe's already crowded automobile market.
Establishing a long unblemished reputation for speed and safety, Cunard's company made ocean liners a success in the face of many potential rivals who lost ships and fortunes.
In 1999, Jim Clark launched myCFO, a company formed to help wealthy Silicon Valley individuals manage their fortunes.
The economic fortunes of the Freeport Sulphur Company declined during the 1980s and 1990s, resulting from its merger with McMoRan Exploration, an oil and gas company that neglected the sulphur operations.
Upon his return he began following Carr's fortunes very closely, and " such was the warmth of the friendship, that they were inseparable ,… nor could Overbury enjoy any felicity but in the company of him he loved.
The new owners promptly initiated a restructuring of the company to reverse its fortunes.
Analysts from financial firms UBS and Stifel Nicolaus agreed that 3G would have to invest heavily in the company to help reverse its fortunes.
Shortly after the acquisition of Burger King by TPG Capital, L. P. in 2002, its new CEO Brad Blum set about turning around the fortunes of the company by initiating an overhaul of its flailing advertising programs.
As the length of time between his film releases increased, his popularity declined, as did the fortunes of his production company.
The historian, Denise Yim writes, " The most distinguished salonniéres were discerning women who selected their company with care, set the tone, guided the conversation, and could influence the fortunes of those appearing there.
While much of what transpired at GO was eclipsed by high-fliers of the dot com era that immediately followed GO's demise, the company was famous in its time for its longevity, its constantly shifting fortunes, the amount of money it spent, and the caliber of talent it attracted.
Although William Backhouse's fortunes grew with his father's company, he became a truly wealthy man when he inherited the estate, worth around $ 500, 000, of his uncle, Henry Astor who died without children.
By the mid 1970s, a change in taxation rules and a general increase in advertising spend saw STV's fortunes recover, and in 1978, company profits had risen by 21. 8 % in the first six months of the year, allowing for an increase in local programming.
Hartnett capitalised on this growth and successfully turned around the fortunes of the local subsidiary to the extent that in 1935, the company increased production to over 23, 000 bodies, and declared a profit of 650, 000 pounds.
It was at first thought that News might use FMR as the foundation of a new international entertainment company, but Festival struggled while Murdoch was in charge and after his departure its fortunes declined rapidly ; the company was wound up in late 2005 and its remaining assets were sold.
The Bronfman family gained its fortunes through the Seagram Company, an alcohol distilling company, but Edgar Jr. (" Efer " to friends ) has gained his reputation by expanding and later divesting ownership of the Seagram Company, as well as for pursuing more creative activities as a Broadway and film producer and songwriter.
After years of poor seasons, fortunes once again turned as production and markets flourished and the company extended its push into Western Australia.
Clark's partner, John R. Bothwell, proved to be corrupt and the company quickly folded, destroying Clark's reputation, his own finances and the fortunes of many of his friends and family.
Later, together with three brothers and two cousins, he joined the company of Alberico da Barbiano, who nicknamed him " Sforza " (" Strong ") for his staunchness and his abilities to suddenly reverse the fortunes of battles.
In June 1982, the paper came under total control of the company ’ s present owners, and the fortunes of the paper began to change dramatically.
The pressure to make the public offering came from the salesmen-stockholders, who were eager to cash in their paper fortunes, but the money raised by the company was used by the management to diversify in a number of ways that created a cash shortage.

fortunes and were
The shift in the Cubs ' fortunes were characterized June 23 on the " NBC Saturday Game of the Week " contest against the St. Louis Cardinals.
The two star pitchers were expected by the Rockies to change the team's fortunes.
The fortunes of individuals, whether possessed by acquisition or by descent or in virtue of a participation in the goods of some community, were no part of the creditor's security, expressed or implied ... he public, whether represented by a monarch or by a senate, can pledge nothing but the public estate ; and it can have no public estate except in what it derives from a just and proportioned imposition upon the citizens at large.
In 1982, Chelsea were, at the nadir of their fortunes, acquired by Ken Bates for the nominal sum of £ 1, although by now the Stamford Bridge freehold had been sold to property developers, meaning the club faced losing their home.
With the arrival from the south of 1, 400 fresh soldiers under the command of Andrés de Santa Cruz Calahumana, the fortunes of the patriotic army were again reversed.
Without Coleman, Essendon's fortunes plummeted, and there were to be no further premierships in the 1950s.
After the Treaty of Paris in 1763, which deprived France of almost all her possessions in the Americas other than Guiana and a few islands, Louis XV sent thousands of settlers to Guiana who were lured there with stories of plentiful gold and easy fortunes to be made.
Such men have openly libelled him, like Dewes and Weldon, whose falsehoods were detected as soon as uttered, or have fastened upon certain ceremonious compliments and dedications, the fashion of his day, as a sample of his servility, passing over his noble letters to the Queen, his lofty contempt for the Lord Keeper Puckering, his open dealing with Sir Robert Cecil, and with others, who, powerful when he was nothing, might have blighted his opening fortunes for ever, forgetting his advocacy of the rights of the people in the face of the court, and the true and honest counsels, always given by him, in times of great difficulty, both to Elizabeth and her successor.
These workers were initially paid, but as Nazi fortunes declined they were kept as slave workers.
Whatever the fortunes of the rites in the meantime, in the last decade of the 5th century they prompted Pope Gelasius I's taunt to the senators who were intent on preserving them: " If you assert that this rite has salutary force, celebrate it yourselves in the ancestral fashion ; run nude yourselves that you may properly carry out the mockery.
But their fortunes were about to change.
Tudor was the son of Welsh courtier Owen Tudor () and Katherine of Valois, widowed Queen Consort of the Lancastrian King Henry V. Edmund Tudor and his siblings were either illegitimate, or the product of a secret marriage, and owed their fortunes to the good will of their legitimate half-brother King Henry VI.
The fortunes of the kingdom were transformed when Egbert conquered part of Dumnonia, seized control of Surrey, Sussex, Kent and Essex, conquered Mercia and secured the overlordship of the Northumbrian king, although Mercian independence was restored in 830.
In 802 the fortunes of Wessex were transformed by the accession of Egbert who came from a cadet branch of the ruling dynasty that claimed descent from Ine's brother Ingild.
Popes such as John XXII, Benedict XII and Clement VI reportedly spent fortunes on expensive wardrobe, and at banquets, silver and gold plates were used.
This was especially true for major magnate families ( Sapieha and Radziwiłł clans being the most notable ), whose personal fortunes and properties often surpassed those of the royal families and were huge enough to be called a state within a state.
The Grand Duke alone had the prerogative to exploit the state's mineral and salt resources, and the fortunes of the Medici were directly tied to the Tuscan economy.
The Tiananmen protests were partially protests against the affluence of the children of high-ranking Communist Party officials, and the perception that second-generation officials had received their fortunes through exploiting their parents ' influence.
Especially notorious for their corruption were the " nabobs ," or individuals who had amassed fortunes in the British colonies in Asia and the West Indies.
Although his family was of consular heritage, they were then declining in both social and financial fortunes.
Desiring to regain their fortunes, they were prepared to march to war under the banner of the " next " Sulla.
Proscriptions meant that their political enemies lost their fortunes and their lives ; that their female relatives ( notably, widows and widowed daughters ) were forbidden to remarry ; and that in some cases, their families ' hopes of rebuilding their fortunes and political significance were destroyed.

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