We want to see more Steve Jobs and more Bill Gates -- creating value, creating jobs.
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Those that read the memo here and Secretary Gates -- neither of them believes that's the case.
Arnold and his wife Laura recently pledged half of their wealth to the Gates- Buffett Giving Pledge.
And in that case, we will all have reason to root for Gates--no matter how ruthlessly he goes after his new adversaries.
That kind of a quip is vintage Gates--analytically, if not politically, correct.
He has not signed the Bill Gates- and Warren Buffett-backed Giving Pledge and he has been critical of charitable efforts to cure poverty.
This raises a question that goes to the very heart of the Gates-Buffett pledge: What is the best way to help the world with these sums of money?
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And Bill Gates--who knows the value of a monopoly better than just about anyone--spent nearly half a billion dollars to make sure that it was running Microsoft software.
Washington (CNN) -- Some National Parks are preparing to close their gates -- at least temporarily -- as a result of forced government budget cuts due to take effect on Friday.
High-profile companies failed, including Bill Gates-backed Pacific Ethanol.
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Today 10 new tycoons signed on to the Gates-Buffett Giving Pledge, the promise that 69 super wealthy folks have made to give away at least half their wealth to charitable causes.
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Before they played their set in front of a selected audience - with many others gathering outside the building's gates - Madness appeared on The One Show recalling their favourite TV Centre moments.
Monteriggioni, like San Gimignano, has a sense that the men in doublet and hose, ladies in wimples, peasants in jerkins and knights on horseback have just disappeared through the gates - and might return at any minute.
Also on Thursday's China Daily is the news that Bill Gates - co-founder of Microsoft - has confirmed that a company he helped found is co-operating on the development of a new type of nuclear reactor in China.
The idea of an X-Factor as the winning gene is as true for people as it is for businesses, says Poulfelt, noting individuals like Mozart, Steve Jobs and Bill Gates -- who all managed to tap into a unique skill or quality to stand out from the crowd.
According to Stone, before going to court in January 2007 he first complained about Corbis' behavior to Gates himself--in Bill Gates' office at Microsoft headquarters in February 2006.
Market pros consider 45% decent execution, partly because big selling--Gates had one 5-million-share day--depresses prices.
In the not-so-distant past, instructors here say, security officials relied on the "3 Gs" -- guns, gates and guards -- to protect infrastructure from intrusions.
Gates one-upped that by stepping down altogether from his day job as CEO of Microsoft.
Bill Gates glad-handed his way through the corridors of power in Washington last week.
But like the White House, Secretary Gates over-estimated how much money could be saved by converting contract positions to in-house jobs, and under-estimated how difficult such conversions would be.
In honor of Gates' June departure from his day job at Microsoft (nasdaq: MSFT - news - people ), career consultants and psychologists scrutinized the peaks and valleys of Gates' 35-year career to pinpoint what factors determined his success.
But Davison says the richest member of the band - who founded Microsoft with Bill Gates in 1975 - doesn't dominate it.
The secretary of state was of a like mind with a group of foreign policy traditionalists in the administration -- Gates, Donilon and Vice President Joe Biden -- who were more sanguine about the situation the U.S. faced, both in Egypt and in the region, the officials said.
Nawab leapt on the kick-starter of his motorcycle, and in one smooth motion flicked on the lights and shot out of the threshing-floor gates, onto the quarter-mile driveway leading from the heart of the farm to the road.
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Gates are co-chairs of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
Far from being hated, many of the superrich -- people like Bill Gates and Warren Buffett -- became folk heroes.
And with American Airlines, its major tenant, the airport equipped gates with laser-driven systems called Safedock that let pilots drive airplanes up to gates without workers on the ground directing them.
The Intel microprocessor inside most of those PCs: up eight-fold (in logic gates) and five- to tenfold (in speed) since 1989.
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