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"small fortune" Definitions
  1. a lot of money

284 Sentences With "small fortune"

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It's known for being innovative and costing a small fortune.
A small fortune was soon amassed, now worth around $100,000.
As you probably know, college can cost a small fortune.
Knowing RED, the components will probably cost a small fortune.
Gibson even donated a small fortune to charity with the proceeds.
This was the view that tourists paid a small fortune for.
LIKEA fun way to try VR without spending a small fortune.
But a great gift doesn't have to cost a small fortune.
They quickly sold out, despite them costing a small fortune to attend.
Naturally, I started losing and my small fortune quickly depleted—au revoir!
A Qatari network, beIN Sports, paid a small fortune for the broadcast rights.
Mac Miller reportedly left behind a small fortune at the time of death.
You're already paying a small fortune to fly home for the holidays. 11.
Mr. Magriel made a small fortune from backgammon and later low-stakes poker.
Val Kilmer's turning tumbleweed into gold, and a small fortune ... TMZ has learned.
These days, not everyone wants to spend a small fortune on an engagement ring.
Phones now cost a small fortune, but you're limited to €500 ($570) per claim.
The only issue is that Intel's top CPUs tend to cost a small fortune.
"We have spent a small fortune in Disney items for him," McLean-Glass wrote.
His father built up a small fortune and put that fortune into a trust.
It does not require a car ride or a small fortune to keep up.
We have multiple trading conglomerates raking in a small fortune from intra-empire commerce.
I have mildly terrible sciatica and I've spent a small fortune trying to "fix" it.
Atlanta Falcons — and turn what I have in my savings account into a small fortune.
And the few times I used a garage, I ended up spending a small fortune.
But they weigh hundreds of kilograms and cost a small fortune to put into space.
That necklace you think is just cheap costume jewelry could end up costing a small fortune.
Say what you want about Danielle, but we're told she's earned a small fortune since February.
There's a reason your parents spent a small fortune on orthodontist bills when you were 10.
There are a few reasons why Apple has no choice but to pay a small fortune.
He told NBC his fiancée sent him $50,000 and then made off with his small fortune.
The advantage of Iowa is that it doesn't cost you a small fortune to campaign here.
Through his various business endeavors, Buffett amassed a small fortune by the time he was 16.
Or you'll have to spend a small fortune to buy a ton of trackers with big batteries.
The Gauntlet is one of the best options early on for amassing a small fortune in Coins.
People can make a small fortune just playing video games and streaming it for others to watch.
It's the day before you retire, and you've built a small fortune in your 103(k) plan.
In France, employees expect companies to provide a way to have lunch without spending a small fortune.
A developer of mostly mediocre properties who made a small fortune (very small) with his daddy's money.
Getting a decent laptop doesn't require you to spend a small fortune or take out a loan.
Now Google's top search spot for Ms. Lohan's small fortune is dominated by an article from BankRate.
Specs, features, and accessories that used to cost a small fortune are now a little more attainable.
Rapper 22017 Cent, also known as Curtis Jackson III, has reportedly amassed a small fortune in cryptocurrency.
These failed, but not before driving the targets' shares up and making Mr Pickens a small fortune.
I won when HQ wasn't super popular, so I didn't have to split my small fortune much.
This isn't because I dropped a small fortune on Shark Cards, Rockstar's GTA V micro-transaction cash generator.
These days it seems that you can't see a bigger-name musical act without dropping a small fortune.
However, the lesson failed because they accidentally left a few chips behind — which tripled into a small fortune.
At 26 years of age, Ramtin Naimi, has already made a small fortune as a hedge fund investor.
I paid a small fortune to some guy in the Mission to peel it off his electric scooter.
Quality day care often costs a small fortune; schools operate on calendars that don't accommodate parents' work schedules.
Quality day care often costs a small fortune; schools operate on calendars that don't accommodate parents' work schedules.
After divorcing him, she said, she parlayed the $22013,219 settlement into a small fortune on the stock market.
Did you know Jerry Lucas made a small fortune writing a series of novelty books about improving memory?
He made a small fortune in the process of all this hustling, risk-taking, succeeding, failing and starting over.
Its power users, meanwhile, are going to dozens of movies a year, each costing the company a small fortune.
Robot vacuums reduce the effort it takes to clean your floors, but they can sometimes cost a small fortune.
With day passes costing a small fortune, the sport faces tough times in a stagnant and often harsh economy.
The board wanted more than $1,500 to return the license — a small fortune for a person of no means.
His father scraped together the $22003 tuition — a small fortune — to let him stay on as Otis's youngest student.
His publically reported company turnover is now roughly KSH 10 million (approximately $0003,000 USD) a month, a small fortune.
We may be spending a small fortune on avocado toast, but we need our voices heard now more than ever.
I try to take good care of my clothes, since I've spent a small fortune on them over the years.
It will almost certainly cost a small fortune, which means you probably won't want your kids ever actually touching it.
While this is hardly a crime worthy of a Balzac quote, it's clear that a lie built a small fortune.
Kris Kringle may be earning the big bucks this holiday season, but he'll be forking out a small fortune, too.
Dr. Newbrough trained to be a dentist, made a small fortune prospecting for gold, and eventually relocated to New York.
I try not to buy lunch at work as it costs a small fortune and the servings aren't very big.
He has been a partner for over two decades, amassing a small fortune litigating securities and mergers and acquisitions cases.
If I asked for a dollar each time I had to refute these statements, I'd have accumulated a small fortune.
There's an old saying: If you want to make a small fortune in the wine business, start with a large one.
Mary Tyler Moore will rest alone -- clear of other graves -- because her family paid a small fortune to make that happen.
Recalls at General Motors a few years back cost the company a small fortune, and led to high-profile congressional investigations.
It has exhausted the small fortune I once held, I even sold my Ferrari to help build our animals larger enclosures.
Political campaigns spend a small fortune on food, drink, staff and other fees when they raise money in the nation's capital.
Lady Gaga's first piano is going up for auction and it's expected to fetch a small fortune ... anywhere between $100k-$200k.
I had no way of knowing that this transaction would lead to a white-knuckle scramble to avoid losing a small fortune.
Now, newly published confidential Facebook emails and charts show exactly why CEO Mark Zuckerberg spent a small fortune for the messaging app.
Then airport officials noticed blood spattered on the fuselage and found a corpse and a small fortune in South African cash inside.
Kids as young as 12 compete in the high-speed sprints, where riders can make a small fortune off a single race.
And so he did that in the '90s, and then took his small fortune and applied it to lots of different industries.
From living simply and investing wisely, she and my grandfather, though both born to poor, immigrant parents, had amassed a small fortune.
In this area, where virtually the only employment at the time was in the rice paddies, her salary was a small fortune.
The portable toilet rentals alone cost a small fortune ... with the federal government shelling out 2 separate payments of $31,764.24 and $9,534.
Clearly, even after the small fortune invested in technology and training, the video-assistant-referee system, known as V.A.R., is no panacea.
We learn a small fortune has been stolen from the boys' football club that the Prices' son Ryan (Misha Handley) currently attends.
Jeff Bezos paid a small fortune in parking fines as part of the ongoing renovation of his $215 million, Washington, DC mansion.
Thanks to his connections, he lived a cosseted life and made a small fortune from financial speculation and the watches he manufactured.
I look at Madewell maternity jeans, but I spent a small fortune on maternity tops this month and can't justify the cost.
"I earn $663 per month," says one croupier -- a small fortune in a country where the minimum wage is just $170 a month.
A badass but also a fool, because that phone you are holding without any form of protection is probably worth a small fortune.
Forget the fact that we may have spent a small fortune on a fancy cream — our skin feels straight-up sticky in it.
He did it because he needs to start laundering a small fortune quickly, and every other business in town has turned him down.
Though he's only 22016, Ayers has amassed a small fortune that, according to recent financial disclosures, is between $20173 million and $22017 million.
The former educator, who had no children or immediate family of her own, had amassed a small fortune through her exceptional saving habits.
Instead, they were emblazoned trucker hats that cost a small fortune, velour tracksuits, and anything sex-tape-era Kim Kardashian would have worn.
I shuffled at my sluggish pace toward the subway and wondered what Dunia would make of the small fortune dangling from my arm.
Jean-Louis, who's 22011 years old and the heir of a famous artist, had decided to use his small fortune for the cause.
Dr. Paul Nassif dropped a small fortune to spoil his new wife, Brittany Pattakos ... with some ritzy bling leading up to their wedding.
Don't bother asking for instructions on how to build your own, though, unless you're ready to spend a small fortune on yellow plastic bricks.
One bitcoin is currently valued at $11,500, making the small fortune Howells sent to a landfill a considerably larger fortune of over $80 million.
But the village is prepared to fork out 55,000 rupees ($800) on average a month—a small fortune—to keep the mini-grid running.
It's much easier to make a small fortune with a platform-based startup than it is, for example, to develop a more efficient battery.
Kona-bound athletes say they've invested thousands of training hours and a small fortune over the years to get to the 2016 world championship.
The mega hitmaker spent a small fortune on this plush Miami crib in the 53-story Aria on the Bay building that's nearing completion.
He plans to retire in less than a month, having built a small fortune at the helm of Herbalife for more than a decade.
That team, which lasted five games against the Warriors, is the one that the Blazers just finished spending a small fortune to keep intact.
But you actually don't have to drop a small fortune to get some decent tech to equip you for note-taking and group projects.
Then word comes that Adrian has committed suicide, leaving Cecilia a small fortune administered by Adrian's shifty, unctuous brother (Michael Dorman, giving good sleaze).
Too bad — you'll have to leave it behind and spend a small fortune at an overpriced airport shop for new luggage, or ship it.
Andrew Mofor cannot get access to the small fortune — 210 euros, or about $850 — that his daughter sent him through an online banking system.
The show cost a small fortune to produce -- in part because of the extensive music rights -- but yielded disappointing results, both creatively and commercially.
Tupac was spitting game back in high school just like everyone else ... and now his steamy letters can be yours for a small fortune.
Kim, Khloe and Kylie will make you a small fortune if they all pop out a bunch of baby boys ... but the odds are STACKED.
The joke among foreign investors once ran that the best way to make a small fortune in Israel was to begin with a large one.
Obviously, Twitter is not a legally binding contract, but here she was, publicly declaring she was going to donate a small fortune to St. Jude's.
Still, Lederman said, the campaign insisted that Bloomberg would spend "no small fortune" to help the eventual nominee, no matter who that ends up being.
The forum has once again charged corporations a small fortune for the privilege to send their executives tramping around Davos in snow boots and suits.
San Francisco-based millennial Grant Hummer has also made a small fortune off cryptocurrency, and he's angling to turn that into an even larger one.
"House of Cards" star Reg E. Cathey had a small fortune to his name when he died earlier this year from lung cancer ... TMZ has learned.
A gold and diamond pendant worn by Tupac when he was shot in 1994 is for sale ... and can be yours for just a small fortune.
But that will cost you a small fortune as you need to spend an extra $2600,2800 to jump from 21GB of RAM to 24GB of RAM.
If you need a new phone, but don't want to spend a small fortune, there are plenty of reasonably-priced and well-reviewed smartphones to consider.
The man in the passenger seat, who paid a small fortune and likely part of his soul for that windshield, doesn't take the insult sitting down.
Riding the wave of nationalist sentiment, he put a small fortune of 8.29 million rubles to work on a spectacle that would blow his overseers away.
If motherhood unnecessarily diminishes women's earning power or potential for promotion, or if child care costs a small fortune, it's not just career aspirations that suffer.
Arnold Schwarzenegger is putting his money where his heart his -- dropping a small fortune to help get crucial supplies to doctors and scientists battling the virus.
The year may still be young, but I would wager a small fortune that Douglas Preston has already written the best snake-decapitation scene of 2017.
John F. Kennedy's last-known autograph -- signed hours before he was assassinated -- is going up for auction ... and it can be yours for a small fortune.
John F. Kennedy fans can hit the jackpot with tons of personal items belonging to the famous Prez ... assuming they have a small fortune to spare.
We spend a small fortune having our hair cut and colored by cutting-edge industry professionals, yet accept a salon experience that feels stuck in the '00s.
Judging by this video, the first company to make a laser dishwasher that actually gets dishes clean, without pre-rinsing, is going to make a small fortune.
Photo: Alex Cranz (Gizmodo)Apple products might cost a small fortune, but one neat thing about its ecosystem is it's easy to seamlessly share files between devices.
If you're not the president or owner of a small fortune and didn't get a chance to see the hugely popular musical before Miranda left, don't worry.
" While he'd amassed a small fortune at a young age, Ek said in 2014 that "no one teaches you what to do after you achieve financial independence.
It takes 10 years and more than $1 billion to develop a vaccine — a small fortune for a medical advance but a pittance for a weapons system.
As a member of Cuba's international medical mission, Dr. Ramona Matos Rodríguez received $400 a month while posted in Brazil, a small fortune in her home country.
The twins' story is just a slice of the saga, set in California's Salinas Valley, that includes murder, suicide, prostitution, and a small fortune built on beans.
Now that you've spent a small fortune on repeat viewings of Wonder Woman, Diana's coming to home video so you can spend even more quality time with her.
The tubes and pods should be easy enough to build, but making hyperloop a reality takes more than a few good engineers and a small fortune or two.
He still made millions from the sale of his ownership in the company and told Bloomberg last December that he made a small fortune from his Bitcoin holdings.
Unsurprisingly, it's going to cost the best part of a small fortune, with early estimates predicting that it will sell for between £20,000 – £30,000 ($26,000 – $39,ooo USD).
When they contact their cable company to complain, they're frequently told that running the needed coaxial cable (often a mile or less) will cost them a small fortune.
You can enjoy your games and media on the go with full graphical fidelity thanks to G-STORY's 4K monitor, and it won't cost you a small fortune.
He's finishing a second term as the governor of a booming and deeply purple state (Colorado) and was an entrepreneur who made a small fortune in brew pubs.
Eventually, our family in Miami paid a man named Nano $1,000 each — a small fortune in those days — to take my dad, my mom, and me to Miami.
Master Replicas Group has yet to reveal pricing information for its new 2001 Interactive HAL Computer prop replica, which almost certainly means it's going to cost a small fortune.
The land the community sits on is vast and would be worth a small fortune itself, but most of the buildings were pretty old and in need of upgrading.
After minting a small fortune as one of the youngest partners in Goldman's history, Mr. Gensler was named assistant secretary for financial markets in 1997 in the Clinton administration.
If catching crabs in style is your thing, have we got a deal for you -- a real life "Deadliest Catch" ship which is now available ... for a small fortune.
Rather than spend a small fortune on Yeezy S228 knit boots, die-hard fans opted for an affordable DIY alternative that basically only requires cutting holes in your socks.
Big Sean just shelled out a small fortune for a ring but he's not popping the question to longtime GF Jhene Aiko ... it was a birthday gift for himself.
As for what the champion plans to do with his small fortune, it'll either be invested in a municipal bond or used to fund a BMW, he tells GMA.
If you're hoping to make a small fortune from renting your humble abode during the holiday weekend, make sure you're not putting yourself at risk for a giant lawsuit.
While $1,500 is considered reasonable for a studio in New York, it was still a small fortune compared to what he paid in every other place he had lived.
By leveraging official government rates, which value the bolívar considerably higher than the unofficial rate, someone with the proper connections can generate a small fortune out of thin air.
According to the paper, this is largely due to Donald Trump's decision to split time between multiple residences and vacation frequently, with each of those trips costing a small fortune.
Keep in mind, you'll probably never use these books again after taking the course, so paying a small fortune for such a shallow investment makes it even more gut wrenching.
Redditor Sam Cashook agrees, so instead of spending a small fortune on Apple's most losable gadgets, he hacked together his own AirPods using about four dollars worth of electronic parts.
Add a few dashes of an essential oil like lavender or tea tree, and you have a product that could probably fetch a small fortune in a boutique skincare shop.
Last week, while testing out a new bot called MyKai, I discovered—maybe "realized" is the better word here—that I had spent a small fortune on Amazon in 2015.
Officials have spent a small fortune on the project that has transformed the village of Shazhou, in Hunan province, into an open-air museum dedicated to the Chinese Communist Party.
Yet I'm also stunned when I look at my Steam library and contemplate the small fortune I have spent on "bargains" that I have never and likely will never play.
In 2009 she was lured by the promise of earning $200 a month by working as a maid in oil-rich Saudi Arabia - a small fortune in her home community.
The story of her show is famous and fabulous, and watching it could be a drinking game (it would take a high tolerance and a small fortune to match her).
Or, at the high-end, spend a small fortune on a Cisco or Polycom video conferencing system which usually means losing the first 15 productive minutes of every meeting wrestling.
You could spend a small fortune, either on developing your own sales channel or paying someone like IBM to build one for you, which only deep-pocketed firms could afford.
The towel Kobe Bryant famously draped over his shoulders during his "Mamba Out" speech in 2016 just netted somebody a small fortune ... it sold for over $30K at an auction!!
After a weeklong court case, Mr. Ibrahim was ordered to pay his relative about $1,600 — a small fortune in Pakistan — with a portion of that money taken by the Taliban.
Dispatching a whaling voyage cost between twenty and thirty thousand dollars, a small fortune in the mid-nineteenth century, and an industry emerged to get these expeditions off the dock.
The Cuban government had originally spent a small fortune restoring the house's frescoed ceilings and yards of marble from every region in Italy for Pope John Paul II's 1998 visit.
It has 16GB of RAM, which wasn't the sole root of any issue that I could see, but Razer, please give me more RAM in exchange for my small fortune.
After 50 years of neglect and abuse, the Gyro-X has been reborn, thanks to years of hard work, a small fortune, and some tech borrowed from the luxury yacht industry.
You could pick up several single-port chargers, an extension cord, and surge protector, which will likely cost a small fortune, or you could buy the Merry Go Round Wireless Charger.
Unless you're an endurance racer who spends 24 hours in their vehicle, there's not much point to sinking a small fortune into a killer sound system you rarely get to hear.
Beyoncé's whole outfit — Reformation bag, Marni earrings, Zimmerman shorts — is itemized and linked, if you want to drop a small fortune on "date night" threads: Watch this space, Beyhive, something's brewing.
The only viable alternative for seeing the show without spending a small fortune or waiting more than a year is trying your luck with the daily Hamilton lottery from Broadway Direct.
Young Dolph's got a lesson for ya in cutting losses and counting blessings -- 'cause he actually has some well-wishes for the punks who jacked a small fortune from his car.
Like most tech at SXSW, the Pixel Food Printer is still a prototype concept so you won't be able to get one just yet (it'd probably cost a small fortune, too).
Whether you're a construction company managing payments to thousands of subcontractors or an accountancy firm managing payroll for hundreds of small businesses, integration and automation can save you a small fortune.
When it comes to a fun night out, I don't have to go to a first-run theatre and shell out $15 for a ticket and a small fortune for popcorn.
Money that should have gone to hospitals and medicine has been spent on futile confrontation with Israel and digging tunnels that the Israelis are now spending a small fortune to block.
Sources close to the family tell TMZ ... two of June's kids, Anna Cardwell and Jessica Shannon, ventured to Los Angeles Friday for extensive cosmetic procedures ... and it cost a small fortune.
We pay a small fortune for E. to get extended daycare, so I'm frustrated that it doesn't seem to translate into the correct number of staff members there in the morning.
Although the prototype was only handled by a trained Lenovo professional (it is, undoubtedly, worth a small fortune) the device easily transformed from a 5.5-inch smartphone to a 7.8-inch tablet.
The ensuing incident is more worthy of children choosing bunks at summer camp than AARP-approved adult women on a vacation worth a small fortune, and it highlights this season's major issues.
Most people assumed that Rubio, who is not particularly wealthy by politician standards (he finished paying off his student loans last year), would enter the private sector and amass a small fortune.
Durov, Telegram's founder, told Bloomberg last December that he's made a small fortune in bitcoin, on top of the millions he made from the sale of his Russia-based tech company VKontakte.
And, if I manage to scrape up some extra dough beforehand, it might just save me a small fortune on charter and rental boat fees every time I fly somewhere to fish.
And, if I manage to scrape up some extra dough beforehand, it might just save me a small fortune on charter and rental boat fees every time I fly somewhere to fish.
"That has to sink in," Cordeiro said during a recent pit stop in Europe, where he explicitly detailed the small fortune that national federations could expect from a North American World Cup.
We're talking about the kind of A-list stylists who have appointments booked a year out and charge a small fortune — which makes Eva Mendes' latest Instagram post all the more unusual.
Francis accidentally detonates the explosives inside, leaving him with a small fortune in stolen funds, an addled and deafened Michael and several inconvenient bodies to put as far behind them as possible.
Drake spent a small fortune -- by normie standards -- to decorate his chompers with serious bling for his "In My Feelings" music video ... and he ordered 'em just in the nick of time.
Fox told Phoenix's CBS 5 News that he ruminated on the small fortune for a few hours over drinks with friends before contacting the bank the next day and reporting the clerical error.
The type of rides that would cost a small fortune for a rider to order on Uber and would need to pay out well to convince a driver to cover the long ride.
But since the considerably less capacious 12 TB LaCie 2big Thunderbolt 2 is $950, there's no question that the fully-loaded version of the 12big is going to cost a small fortune.[LaCie]
It's too bad that Sam Kwok doesn't sell his creations, though, because the number of Iron Man and Toy Story fans who would snatch this up would easily make him a small fortune.
When you do allow images in an email, know that you may be instantly giving up a small fortune of information to the sender — and whoever they're working with — without even realizing it.
The first charge relates to his work as a political consultant for pro-Kremlin political parties in Ukraine, where he amassed a small fortune and illegally funneled it back into the United States.
His frequent criticisms of NBA refs have cost him a small fortune — as of February 2018, the NBA had fined him close to $2.6 million for his comments and antics over the years.
While you'll spend a small fortune ordering prescription lenses along with some of the other frames on this list, Warby Parker covers a good swathe of styles while staying kind to your wallet.
Not only does Polo get Cayetana re-enrolled at school during the first half of the finale, but he also gives her mom a small fortune to cover their debts for some time.
If you like the idea of an automatic feeder for your cat, but you don't want to spend a small fortune on a programmable device, a gravity feeder might be a good option.
Despite posturing about "standing up to special interests," Clinton has a well-documented history of hobnobbing with those who can pay a small fortune for the pleasure of hearing her voice for an hour.
Good news for Bryce Harper ... baseball expert Peter Gammons says someone will definitely pay the small fortune he wants ... telling TMZ Sports the owners have the money, and it's just a matter of who.
From a space-saving kitchen cart to a plush, six-piece towel set for less than $30, THD proves turning your home into a beautiful place doesn't have to cost you a small fortune.
MMA star Rampage Jackson says he came thiiiiis close to getting his manager, Tiki, a hoopty Range Rover at the used car lot ... before deciding to be a boss and drop a small fortune!
Set in the Florida panhandle, "The Whistler" centers on an elaborate conspiracy involving an Indian reservation, an organized crime syndicate and a crooked judge skimming a small fortune from the tribal casino's monthly haul.
Compared with tree fruits, which take a decade or two and a small fortune to produce, strawberries are quick and cheap; plants, hardiest in their first year, are ripped out after a single harvest.
Mr. Modi promised to stoke India's go-go economy, and he recruited Mr. Sinha, who had built a small fortune in the United States as a consultant and hedge fund manager, to help him.
The overall pricing for the new set of iPhones, the iPhone 11, 11 Pro and 11 Pro Max is just a tiny bit better, but the high-end models still cost a small fortune.
"They do say that the only way to make a small fortune from somewhere like Ulva is to start out with a large one," said Howard, whose family had owned the island for generations.
He then moved to investment bank Rothschild & Cie in 2008 and made a small fortune brokering a $10 billion deal between Nestle and Pfizer before joining Hollande's presidential staff and becoming economy minister in 2014.
"They're pretty rough," said Rob Sosa, 210, who says he has spent a small fortune on cameras and a high-tech sprinkler to scare off the deer and turkeys that invade his property with impunity.
"His days are numbered as speaker," said Jared Woodfill, the president of Conservative Republicans of Texas, which has spent a small fortune in recent years to defeat Mr. Straus and his lieutenants in the House.
Great news for rich UFC fans -- the iconic "superfight" belt from UFC 5 is about to hit the auction block ... and you can add it to your mantel if you're willing to drop a small fortune!
If you're struggling to find the perfect present for everyone on your list (without spending a small fortune), then these homemade goodies from the December issue of Martha Stewart Living are about to make your day.
He passed away a little over a year ago at the age of 77, and to the surprise of many, Morin left a small fortune to his employer and alma mater — $4 million to be exact.
It dawned on me that even though I earned a small fortune when I was committing crime, if you added up all the hours I was going to spend in prison, it still wasn't worth it.
Gurley Brown got her start as a copywriter in Los Angeles, where she rose up the ranks at agencies and made her own small fortune before marrying Hollywood producer David Brown at the age of 37.
And once that was done, Mr. Shafer, teacher of shelter dwellers and street kids and others whom fellow educators failed to reach, wasted a small fortune and will now shovel another one into the federal coffers.
Here are some facts about him: * He was born in Mexico on January 28, 1940, the son of a Lebanese immigrant who built a small fortune by purchasing properties at cheap prices during the Mexican Revolution.
Instead of paying a company like Comcast a small fortune for hundreds of unwatched channels and comically-terrible customer service, streaming providers are offering lower costs and greater flexibility without pissing customers off on a daily basis.
After a stint as a construction superintendent, Mr. Corker put aside $8,000 to start his own company, settling into a career spent amassing a small fortune building shopping centers and later investing in higher-end real estate.
As his prospects and poll numbers have risen — maybe because he spent a small fortune on ads — the former New York City mayor has also sustained criticism for discriminatory policies such as stop and frisk and redlining.
In much the same way that quarters from specific years in the 1970s are worth money to would be collectors, there is a wide range of specific pennies that are worth a small fortune (no pun intended).
So when the work to be restored cannot travel to his studio (like a Monet he worked on last year, which was worth "a small fortune"), he brings his tools on site and sets up a makeshift laboratory.
Special for kids — and importantly parents of kids — now you can get designs on visiting Disney — and dropping a small fortune in the process — thanks to Google Maps after it added Street View images for 11 Disney Parks.
Brought to light in 1999 by the scholar Bertrand Jestaz, it shows that, in 1518, while Leonardo was still alive, Francis I's treasurer in Milan issued a small fortune to Salaì in exchange for a group of paintings.
They will sell the bananas for a pittance in Colombian pesos, then return home to convert the cash into a small fortune of Venezuelan currency — at least for a few days, when their money will be worthless again.
Foreign capitals, of course, have long been a lucrative destination for American political consultants: Big-name campaign operatives can earn a small fortune working for controversial or disreputable candidates, largely out of sight of the American news media.
You can go and see the players you cheered in the World Cup every other week, and the chances are it will not cost you the small fortune that going to see a top-flight men's game would.
Wyoming might not be first in mind when it comes to cutting-edge financial technology, but the state is forging ahead with plans to attract a small fortune in cryptocurrency assets from companies eager to sidestep federal oversight.
Photo: A.M. Ahad (AP)Florida police made an arrest last month in an alleged "SIM-jacking" ring, with court documents claiming the scammers involved stole SIM cards belonging to other individuals and used them to amass a small fortune.
Ji Jin-hee, a dashing 44-year-old actor, revealed that he bought piles of secondhand Lego to build models and sell them for a small fortune (he appeared on the cover of Elle Korea surrounded by his creations).
Here's the question: Knowing they just spent a small fortune on a container load from Singapore on this garbage and are likely protected by the insurance from the credit card, do I say anything or keep my mouth shut?
Gary Gensler, a partner at Goldman and chairman of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission After minting a small fortune as one of the youngest partners in Goldman's history, Mr. Gensler was named assistant secretary for financial markets in 22014.
The British branch of AbeBooks, an online marketplace for used, rare and out of print books, has released this guide to rare editions of Harry Potter which may be worth a small fortune — and no, they're not all UK first editions.
They often then argue that with so many children in need of good homes, it would be ethically superior for us to adopt, instead of spending a small fortune so we can have children to whom we are genetically tied.
He learned that, out west, loggers were paying upwards of $10 for a pair of calked logging boots — a small fortune back then — and moved the family and business out to Oregon to take full advantage of a lacking market.
Bloomberg, who exited the race on Wednesday morning after an abysmal delegate count, spent a not-so-small fortune ($2200 million in total) on advertising alone, outspending his rivals by more than 2200 times the next highest spender, reports NPR.
So rather than take the Heathrow Express and the London Underground, I spent a small fortune on taxis from Heathrow Airport, to the Mayfair area, to Canary Wharf, and in and out of the Shepherds Bush suburbs to collect my data.
Mr. Heron, 21757, who hails from South Africa and wears a wide, gray soul patch like an aging roadie's, was no stranger to the drinks market: He had already made a small fortune developing a health drink and a hard cider.
But, of all the questions that went unasked, the most glaring omission was the obvious one: Why was an Afghan man named Zarif Khan making a small fortune plus a whole lot of Mexican food under the name Louie Tamale?
Ordering a glass of vinegary pinot grigio at 4 AM in Gatwick's Terminal 2 is as much of an airport tradition as wearing five layers to save space in your hand luggage and spending a small fortune on mini shower gel bottles.
Deebot is not part of the military industrial complex and does not cost a small fortune Did you know that iRobot, the company that invented the Roomba, began as a military robotics company (it sold the military part of its company in 2016)?
"Starfish" is a snug fit into the niche occupied by films like "Primer" and "Timecrimes": low-budget, egg-headed science-fiction, crafted by filmmakers who are keenly aware that while special effects require a small fortune, compelling ideas don't cost a dime.
Nevertheless, the film, which premieres internationally tomorrow at the Tribeca Film Festival, is less concerned with its central case—the shooting of a young man and the disappearance of a small fortune—and more with the psychology of the crime's countless suspects.
Gary Gensler, a partner at Goldman and chairman of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission After minting a small fortune as one of the youngest partners in Goldman's history, Mr. Gensler was named assistant secretary for financial markets in 1997 in the Clinton administration.
If you've had to rely on watching bad Hamilton parodies in lieu of shelling out a small fortune to catch Lin-Manuel Miranda's hit Broadway musical, Christmas may not be over for you because someone has posted the entire first act on Pornhub.
"A man can decide to be female, take hormones if required by whatever sporting organization is concerned, win everything in sight and perhaps earn a small fortune, and then reverse his decision and go back to making babies if he so desires," Navratilova wrote.
A small fortune is on display on the floor and walls of his compound — Persian rugs, Blackfeet Indian daggers and an assortment of rare books, including the proof sheets for Mark Twain's "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court," with 26 of the author's markings.
It is clear, however, that in Namibia and all across the developing world, the older generation of long-term immigrants is being eclipsed by China's new diaspora: younger, more educated workers going abroad to get experience — and make a small fortune — before returning to China.
Claiming to have made a small fortune as a contractor working on projects overseen by the army and thus to have knowledge of these matters, he accuses the president of wasting millions of dollars on a luxury hotel, presidential palaces and other lavish projects.
The Atlantic explained that a Venezuelan user who can run several bitcoin mining devices can clear about $500 a month — that is considered a small fortune enough to feed a family of four and purchase vital goods such as baby diapers or insulin from overseas.
Some travel only as far as their savings will stretch: A one-way bus ticket to neighboring Colombia from Caracas costs the U.S. equivalent of around $15; the fare for a trip to Chile or Argentina can run as high as $350, a small fortune for many.
Further adding to the Joy's luxury element will be a private section of the ship called The Haven where passengers who've coughed up a small fortune will have access to one of 74 massive suites, a private covered courtyard and dining facilities, and a full-time butler.
Digital Camera Info speculates that in addition to a reduction in weight, the 28mm macro lens might also come with a lightweight price tag and be targeted at amateur photographers wanting to try their hand at macro photography, without spending a small fortune on all the gear.
BERLIN (Reuters) - A briefcase filled with 3,500 euros ($4,097) along with 22 gold bars weighing a total of 1kg and worth 30,000 euros was discovered beneath a tree by an honest finder who promptly turned over the small fortune to Berlin police, authorities said on Friday.
"What would otherwise require a large studio, extensive training and a small fortune in art supplies will be reduced to a desktop, an iPad Pro and a few days of production in our service bureau—it's not too different from ordering prints in a Kinkos," said Tritt.
All of which raises the question of why any photography professional – or amateur shutterbugs with deep pockets, for that matter – would find a need to pay a small fortune for a camera, particularly in a world where tech-savvy smartphones seem to be cannibalizing high-end cameras.
Netflix has clearly sunk another small fortune into producing "Altered Carbon," and comes away with an expensive dud -- one of those enticing-from-a-distance dramas that merely demonstrates you really can't judge a book (or a TV show based on one) by its glossy cover.
Rushent was keen to get out of producing punks and aspired to work with more genteel electronic acts instead, and so he shelled out a small fortune and built Genetic Studios, an air-conditioned barn equipped with a Fairlight, a Synclavier, some Roland synths and the fabled MC-19803.
Secondly, as a Cuban exile that is now a U.S. citizen, I needed a special permit to enter Cuba, which for the past 823 years has required people like me to get not only this permit but also a Cuban passport – a process that costs a small fortune.
A Muslim family whose home near the Sarajevo airport was the starting point of a wartime tunnel dug under the runway began making a small fortune selling tickets to tourists who wanted to visit what had been the only relatively safe way in and out of the besieged city.
Historians are uncertain about the circumstances that led to Young's freedom; what's clear is that, after purchasing his wife's freedom and upon his arrival in Missouri from Tennessee, Hiram Young & Company made a small fortune building and selling thousands of high-quality wagons and yokes to westward-bound 21865ers.
Amid a series of boilerplate posts thanking Republican voters for granting him victories in their state primaries, Trump first trained his fire on former New York Mayor Mike Bloomberg — a recurrent punching bag of the president's whose small fortune in ad buys won him first place in only American Samoa's caucuses.
"A man can decide to be female, take hormones if required by whatever sporting organisation is concerned, win everything in sight and perhaps earn a small fortune, and then reverse his decision and go back to making babies if he so desires," 18-times Grand Slam winner Navratilova wrote in The Sunday Times.
The enormous cost shifting that has occurred via high deductible plans mean that at the preventive visit (covered with no copay) many take advantage of having paid a small fortune monthly for their policy, so they bring in a whole host of medical issues that are not part of this routine physical.
This is something I realized back when we planned our Palm Springs trip; we'd only booked a long weekend, but I realized about a week before we left we were crazy not to maximize our time there before the baby arrives, and I spent a small fortune extending the flights and booking a new hotel.
Whether we're talking about time-travelers with a penchant for pilfered bacon or a shadowy cabal of cheese thieves and a small fortune in stolen Parmigiano-Reggiano, it's an unfortunate reality that robberies, or the threat thereof, are something most people working in the food industry have come across at least once in their career.
The sweet spot will be self-contained VR headsets — something Intel and others are hard at work on — that give you a near high-end experience with the portability of the Gear VR. But until we get there, most people who don't want to blow a small fortune on VR are going to settle for good enough.
The new Stars Hollow is revealed as a backlot facade when Rory and Logan decide to stand on top of one of the fake roofs during a incredibly long, Baz Luhrmann-y steampunk musical sequence soundtracked by The Beatles "With a Little Help From My Friends," the rights to which must have cost a small fortune.
The lifestyle is often painted as a mixture of stoicism and financial savvy; I envisage myself as a modern-day Henry David Thoreau-type, living deliberately in the wilds of Zone 230, frugally saving half my paycheck and subsisting off of beans and pita bread until I've amassed a small fortune that will see me into early retirement.
While it's not an emergency, I know I'm not the only traveler who's found myself trying to book a last-minute trip during high season only to realize that prices have skyrocketed — FYI, you can't "just wing it" when it comes to accommodations in Europe's most beloved cities in mid-July unless you're prepared to spend a small fortune.
"The 18-time Grand Slam tennis champion Martina Navratilova has also criticized McKinnon, saying in The Sunday Times in February: "A man can decide to be female, take hormones if required by whatever sporting organisation is concerned, win everything in sight, earn a small fortune, and then reverse his decision and go back to making babies if he desired.
We're loving the TCL 21999.99-inch 214K Roku TV on sale at Walmart for $21999.99, saving you $230, proving that you don't have to drop a small fortune for a decently-sized 4K smart TV. But if you do have that kind of space, we'll let you flex because these deals are too good not to.
We're loving the TCL 214-inch 21999.99K Roku TV on sale at Walmart for $249.99, saving you $230, proving that you don't have to drop a small fortune for a decently-sized 4K smart TV. But if you do have that kind of space, we'll let you flex because these deals are too good not to.
His personal collection of watches is impressive—for example, a gold Patek Philippe with the Golden Rule inscribed on its dial, which Lyndon Johnson gave to his allies and underlings—and he has likely made a small fortune from buying and selling timepieces over the years, but he's also harnessed nostalgia in a way that feels real.
This realization pissed off Esdras Ochoa so much that he quit his thriving career as a professional poker player and invested the small fortune he won from that in re-educating Angelenos on what a proper carne asada taco should be—first, with Mexicali Taco & Co in Los Angeles, and now with Salazar in the north LA neighborhood known as Frogtown.
A great deal of that reduction came from Disney's surprise decision to shut down Fox 280, the 25-year-old division devoted to the kind of movies that had become increasingly rare in the film industry: dramatic, mass market features that don't cost a small fortune like event films, but aren't the kind of rarefied, inexpensive indies released by its sister division Fox Searchlight.
Ross is a much more Trumpian figure than Lighthizer, with strong personal ties to the president-elect (he worked on some of Trump's bankruptcies) and no government experience, but a shared commitment to a GOP brand of protectionism — in Ross's case deriving from the small fortune he made investing in distressed American steel producers who were temporarily rescued from ruin by Bush-era protective tariffs.
Here are a few of the exceptionally odd ones: - A miniature Shetland pony named Pudding- A mother-in-law named June- A Swarovski encrusted 5-foot wedding cake- A house made of bread - Keys to a Bentley- A collection of Steiff teddy bears worth a small fortune- Sex toys- A bag of snails- A taxidermy raccoon- A suitcase full of prosthetic legsYes, someone's mother-in-law was left behind.

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