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Regardless of the source, home buyers can take heart that economists think buyers’ fortunes will improve slightly next year.

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Thelwell, as sporting director, has spent a relative fortune on players since the owners took over, north of £30m according to club sources.

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The carriage, with mystical, fortune telling-inspired designs, was created for the never built Museum of the Weird, which would have nestled alongside the Haunted Mansion.

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It’s a joke, sure, but it also nails the metaphor: gravy is what you get when fortune tips your way; beans are what you settle for when it doesn’t.

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He continued to receive UK royalties till they ran out in 1967, but he lost out on a fortune when the US version, marketed under the name Clue, became hugely popular across the Atlantic.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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