11.   Famous old Bordeaux firms disappeared, and fortunes were lost on both sides of the Atlantic.

12.   Fortunes were lost by traders who had shorted the yen.

13.   From the slots that greet you at the airport to the packed casinos along the Strip, you can make or lose a fortune in a night.

14.   Gates made and lost three fortunes, and married and divorced or deserted five women.

15.   George lost the fortune during the first winter, attempting to grow rice in Florida.

16.   He made and lost several fortunes, then ended his career by putting a pistol to his head in a cloakroom at the Sherry Netherland.

17.   His father, Henri, had made and lost a fortune in the timber business.

18.   His mother, Mary, came from a Russian banking family that had lost its fortune during the Bolshevik Revolution.

19.   In addition to being plagued by physical ailments, Clarence Hemingway had lost a fortune in failed Florida real-estate deals and shot himself in the head.

20.   Investors have lost fortunes and tech-happy journalists have lost reputations assuming that the pot of gold at end of the virtual rainbow would always be around.