It will then close the three flood gates on Crosthwaite Road and Penrith Road.
In the three weeks after Gates issued his dictum, Microsoft published three separate security bulletins.
It will be only fitting and right if the three faces on the side of the mountain are those of Bill Gates, Steve Jobs and Winky Dink.
This photo was taken on April 17, 2006, about three weeks after the Keukenhof opened its gates for the fist time that year.
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When Florence Wambugu, founder of A Harvest Biotech Foundation International in Kenya, heard about the Gates grants, she immediately thought about three packages of sorghum seeds sitting in cold storage in Des Moines, Iowa.
Perhaps the most telling indication of the change in the signature Gates swagger is how the foundation handled one of its first big "solution" announcements: About three years ago, the foundation issued a press release declaring that it had provided at least one computer to every library in America.
Soon, several police cruisers caught up to the runaway car to escort it through traffic, and later assist with three toll plazas where they called ahead to have the gates raised.
Raikes, who took over as head of the Gates Foundation two and a half years ago after almost three decades at Microsoft ( MSFT), was proud of the accomplishments made by the foundation.
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The jokester had brought three pie boxes as a "present" for Gates, but complained police had prevented him from setting foot outside his car to deliver the parcels, which he insisted were empty.
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Some predicted an unremarkable and fairly short tenure, but three years later, Mr. Gates has become one of the most powerful defense chiefs in decades.
If Gates chooses a fight to the death, it could take three years and a trip to the Supreme Court before we have a final winner.
Nobody, including Bill Gates, takes a salary of any consequence, but over the past three years Microsoft has granted options in excess of 50 million per annum.
The notion that cars must form the centre of every industrial economy looks pretty quaint given that the combined market value of Detroit's Big Three is dwarfed by that of Bill Gates's Microsoft.
Microsoft wants to chill everyone out with the somber news that its got no plans to introduce Windows 7 any earlier than January 2010 (three years from the launch of Vista), and reassure us that crazy old Gates may have just been talkin' developer speak.
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For Google, the honeymoon has lasted three years now and will continue for no more than another two, predicted Gates.
The Gates Foundation will now pay for prototypes to be tested in the field, probably of all three winners and possibly of some other ideas.
This is something, by the way -- going back to my involvement -- two or three days after this happened, we had a meeting down in the Situation Room in which I specifically asked Bob Gates and Mike Mullen what assets do we have that could potentially help that BP or other oil companies around the world do not have.
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