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The Fortune 500 is an annual list compiled and published by Fortune magazine that ranks the top 500 U.S. closely held and public corporations as ranked by their gross revenue after adjustments made by Fortune to exclude the impact of excise taxes companies incur. The list includes publicly and privately-held companies for which revenues are publicly available. The first Fortune 500 list was published in 1955.
Wal-Mart was the largest company on the list in 2007 and 2008. ExxonMobil was in second place in 2007 and 2008, but overtook Wal-Mart in 2009. Wal-Mart once again regained the top spot in 2010. One should note that the revenue and profit numbers are for the year previous to the named year: therefore the 2010 list ranks companies by 2009 revenues.
Although the Fortune 500 list is the most familiar one, similar gross revenue lists of the top firms range from the highest ranking Fortune 100 including the top one hundred to the broader ranking Fortune 1000 that includes the top thousand firms. While the membership on the smaller lists are somewhat stable, the ranking on the lists may change over time, depending upon revenues and often, because of mergers among firms already listed.
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taking in the party
he put me down for awhile
100 watts of ambition
springing off his smile
his lips looked set to kiss me
but he closed up like a fist
he's got a fortune in charm
and makes a gift out of empty arms
but i was sold, i was sold, no one had to convince me
bendng over backwards
I watched the light burn out
his excuses fell like diamonds
brilliant, cutting, lost and found
he's got a fortune in charm
and makes a gift out of empty arms
but i was sold, i was sold, no one had to convince me
(i don't believe it)