1.   It makes you understand that you are inextricably bound up with each other and that your fortunes depend on one another.

2.   Companies whose fortunes depend on increasing videoconference activity, like network equipment maker VideoServer Inc. of Burlington, are benefiting most.

3.   Ultimately, his political fortunes may not depend on how much support he can muster, but on whether an organized opposition emerges to force him out.

4.   His fortune depends on the capricious weather and his ability to pry credit from the banks to buy enough seed for crops.

5.   Their economic fortunes largely depend on foreign investment, and that investment is aided by smooth relations with the West.