After Gates left Washington, he showed up on TV, the star of his own feel-good ad campaign.
Even so, experts say Gates is well regarded in Washington intelligence and military circles.
And so on Tuesday evening, at the headquarters of Microsoft's Washington lobbyists, Gates met JOEL KLEIN, the department's top antitrust enforcer.
Mr. Gates's flagship project is the Washington Park Arts Incubator, scheduled to open this fall on Chicago's South Side.
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Though the Washington wonks worry about Bill Gates and his operating systems, word processors and spreadsheets, when it comes to software these days, consumers prefer fun and games.
Klein chuckles when he remembers the first time he and Gates met in person after parting ways in Washington.
Manuel and Rice, the former provost of Stanford University, are based in Silicon Valley, while Gates is in Seattle and Hadley is in Washington.
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Mr Gates, who has created his own small cluster in Washington, has been through several revolutions in the software industry, without losing his head in any.
As the Wall Street Journal notes, Gates spoke today at an alternative energy conference outside of Washington today that was sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy.
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The day of the arrests, French Defense Minister Herve Morin was meeting with his American counterpart, Defense Secretary Robert Gates, and with Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice in Washington on a previously unannounced visit.
According to Gates in his first post-arrest interview with The Washington Post, he is going to use this incident to further discuss race in America and the hidden racism that often goes undissected and undiscussed in America.
In Washington, U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates said the border region remains "a real problem" for allied troops battling a resurgent Taliban and its al Qaeda allies in Afghanistan, particularly along the rugged border with Pakistan.
Bill Gates glad-handed his way through the corridors of power in Washington last week.
The Washington State initiative, which is being promoted by Bill Gates Sr.
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Voters in Washington state rejected a proposal put on the ballot by Bill Gates senior, the father of America's richest man, to introduce a personal income tax for wealthy people.
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Defense Secretary Robert Gates are in Russia today, and they are hoping to reduce tensions between Washington and Moscow.
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.
The big spenders wanted to impose an income tax in the state of Washington, and they even had support from too-rich-to-care Bill Gates.
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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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It's not that used to lobbying Washington, but the likes of Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg are keen to open up the gates to more of the algorithmic whizz-kids he wants to recruit.
Bill Gates, has campaigned against repealing the death tax and led the fight to impose an income tax via referendum in Washington state in 2010.
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