Although some of the individuals Buffett contacted were at first hesitant about making a formal announcement, he emphasized the importance of setting an example to future generations by pointing to the legacies of Andrew Carnegie and John D.

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The Department of Global Ecology at the Carnegie Institution in Washington D.

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D. at Carnegie Mellon, she was an avid fan of the early text-only, multiplayer online games.

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In addition to the funding of some 2, 800 public libraries across the United States and as far away as Fiji and New Zealand, he had endowed the Carnegie Institute of Technology in his adopted hometown of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, the Carnegie Research Institution in Washington, D.

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D. in robotics from Carnegie Mellon, Tompkins spoke in a dizzying rush of perfectly articulated detail.

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"Definitely there will be more opportunities for Western companies, " says Kevin Tu, a China energy expert at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington, D.

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Mr. Francesconi had always hoped Carnegie would figure prominently in his career, but he'd been thinking more along the lines of conducting Respighi than conducting research.

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