It worked: Chicago dealer Kavi Gupta took one look at the towering wooden "thrones" that Gates started building and agreed to take a group to the country's pre-eminent art fair, Art Basel Miami Beach, in 2009.
The Army Corps of Engineers is now building in gates, so that the canals can be sealed off from Lake Ponchartrain to the north of the town in case another hurricane comes.
When Bill Gates had a choice between building a tech company and finishing school he picked his passion and Microsoft resulted.
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.
You can, of course, fight an unpredictable tide by building sea walls, flood gates and breakwaters.
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Because of a grant from Gates and his wife Melinda, the building that holds the cutting edge genetics research at the University of Washington is named after William Foege.
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Plans for the Don Valley flood protection project include building new flood walls, installing flood gates, as well as repairing and reinforcing existing defences.
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They come at the invitation of Columbia University, which hosted the most recent get-together on Friday in a concrete building near the iconic black wrought-iron Morningside Gates.
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Workers were still finishing building a stadium wall, and ticket offices, turnstiles and gates were not working, said another paper, the Folha de Sao Paulo.
If the Pentagon does slow the huge building and deployment program, which was ordered several years ago by then-Defense Secretary Robert Gates, it won't affect the CIA drone strikes in Pakistan, Yemen and elsewhere against terror suspects.
Gates may not have cut the number of carrier groups outright, but he has significantly delayed the start date for building new carriers from every four years to every five.
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