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Senate Confirms New White House Budget Director
team." Burwell is a former deputy budget director and top White House aide during the Clinton administration. More recently, she was president of the Wal-Mart Foundation and a top executive at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation .
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Senate Panels Endorse Obama Budget Nominee Burwell
in a bipartisan manner and her experience in helping craft bipartisan budget agreements in the late 1990s. More recently, Burwell was president of the Wal-Mart Foundation and a top executive at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation .
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Bill Gates Offers Grant for 'Next Generation Condom'(Image Credit: Grott, Vegard/AFP/Getty Images) Bill Gates ' latest project gives a whole new meaning to the old Microsoft the "next generation condom" through The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation 's Grand Challenges in Global Health. The estimated 80
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The New Normal (The Note)
Foundation, the retailer's charity division, and previously ran the global development wing of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation . http://abcn.ws/Z8GJc5 WHERE IN THE WORLD IS JOE BIDEN? Vice President Joe Biden delivers remarks at AIPAC's
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Obama Announces Trio Of Cabinet-Level Positions
Burwell previously served with new Treasury Secretary Jack Lew as deputy director of OMB and later held a top position at the Gates Foundation and led the Walmart Foundation. As Obama put it, "Sylvia knows her way around a budget." She understands "our goal
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Obama to Nominate Walmart's Sylvia Mathews Burwell as Budget Director
Foundation, the retailer's charity division, and previously ran the global development wing of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation . Burwell's appointment has not been unexpected. In her, Obama's pick clearly indicates a mesh of corporate resume
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Richard Branson, 11 Other Foreign Billionaires, to Give Wealth to 'Pledge' Charity1 billion. "The approach of my wife, Susie, and I to philanthropy is very simple," his letter begins, suggesting that the will demonstrate to the world that the Russian traditions of philanthropy are coming back."
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The 50 Most Influential Networking Tycoonsnet worth individuals. For Bill Gates , the first person on the list according to Wealth-X: 1. Bill Gates category: $261 billion Co-chairman of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and founder of Microsoft 2
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The 10 Wealthiest Networking Kings and Queens
Wealth-X: 1. Bill Gates category co-chairman of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and founder their wealth to philanthropy . Wealth-X the country, Bill Gates , donating dollars to the Gates Foundation and other causes
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Khan Academy: Taking Learning Out of 'One Pace Fits All' Classroomthe world have noticed, including some heavy hitters like Bill Gates . Gates did more than look at the Khan Academy videos, he in 2009, Khan finally quit his job and partnered with the Gates Foundation and Google to form the Khan Academy. Here's how it works
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Japan Tops List of Healthiest Countriespublished today. The Global Burden of Disease Study 2010 , a large-scale collaboration funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to assess trends in health and disease in 187 countries, has released its rankings of the top 10 countries with the highest
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Warren Buffett's 7 Pearls of WisdomOf all the biographers competing to be Warren Buffett's Boswell, Carol Loomis, dean of writers at Fortune magazine, would seem to be the best equipped. For more than 40 years, she has been Buffett's personal friend and sometime bridge partner. For 35, she has ghost-edited his annual letter to the
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The Wealthiest Person in Each Statethe companies they founded. Bill Gates , the country's wealthiest compiled by Wealth-X. 1. Bill Gates : $64.5 billion Microsoft co-chair of Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation 2. Warren Buffett: $49.6
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Bill Gates' New FocusMicrosoft's bill gates ' last day instead on philanthropy through the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation so what does redefined philanthropy for the 21 they lose Bill Gates but what up. The gates foundation visited the the name Bill Gates . I'll invented philanthropy for the twentieth
with high tech and now he's moving month. Today marks Microsoft's -- bill gates' last day as a full time employees. Gates plans to focus instead on philanthropy through the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation so what does this mean for Microsoft and what does this mean for gates himself. Joining us from San Francisco is technologythis moment to reflect on their own. Mortality. As they think about Bill Gates have in his exit interview at Microsoft today. His exit interview at Microsoft but of course and brand new venture with focusing so much. On his foundation his foundation obviously has done amazing work already. What do you expect he'll do sort of for the Philanthropic community and what kind of an impact do you think that He can have there. I think he's -- shake it up. The gates foundation visited the -- enormously important foundation but so far it has been workman like but not terribly creative. And bills can apply his business creativity. And shake up the entire Philanthropic model. In fact I'll offer you -- forecast. Bill as a big deal and personal computers today but in the hundred years from now when people look back and they mention the name Bill Gates . I'll bet it's a little bit like the way we think of Andrew Carnegie today. People forget what -- He did He was in the steel business. All they remember is that He invented philanthropy for the twentieth century putting libraries into cities across the country. And reinventing the whole process. I'll bet you a hundred years from now Bill Gates is remembered Moore as the philanthropist. Who reinvented this landscape. That is the technologists to help bring the PC to us. -
June 27, 2008: Bill Gates Retireschanging the world. Bill Gates with tears in his eyes the goodbye. People Bill Gates saved his first public computer for our cause Bill Gates is. Almost single handedly that here and all that philanthropy might actually your
of the world's richest men retire in hopes of changing the world. Bill Gates with tears in his eyes you don't see that every day step down from Microsoft. ABC's Neal Karlinsky was in Redmond Washington for the goodbye. People -- Bill Gates saved his first public display of emotion for his last day on the job during today's farewell speech to deploy easy. Ipeople. Really understand. How what -- revolution personal computer for our cause Bill Gates is. Almost single handedly responsible for putting a computer or two computers every single household in the United States and really around -
New Cabinet Nominees to Tackle Budget, Climate Changeunder Jack As deputy director norm being part of a team that presided over three budget surpluses in a Later she helped the gates foundation grow into a global force for good. And then she helped the Wal-Mart foundation expand its charitable work. So Soviet
presided over three budget surpluses in a -- Later she helped the gates foundation grow into a global force for good. And then she helped the Wal-Mart foundation expand its charitable work. So Soviet knows her -
Kenya Camel Trek Saves Human Liveshoping. Plus there's a way you can help. ABC news feed the change save a life supported in part by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and now to one done better abcnews.com. And the change.
change save a life supported in part by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and -- now to -- one done better abcnews.com. And the change. -
Be the Change: Save a Lifesomeone's life around and ABC's yearlong initiative be the change save a life sponsored in part by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation . We've been telling you about simple ways we can help those neat if he's chief health and medical editor
change save a life sponsored in part by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation . We've been telling you about simple ways we can help those neat if he's chief health and medical editor doctor Richard Baxter -
Be the Change: Preparing for the 'Viral Storm'ABC's initially didn't change save a life for reducing with the help of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation . And this morning doctor Richard Boettcher investigates what it takes to stop the next global had been done. Mission Mattingly
life -- for reducing with the help of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation . And this morning doctor Richard Boettcher investigates what it takes to stop the next global had been done. Mission Mattingly C movie -
What Virus Will Be the Next 'Contagion'?the viral storm dawn of the new pandemic was published today in. Doctor Richard investors reporting part of ABC's initiative be the change save a life produced with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and we're grateful tomorrow.
be the change save a life produced with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and we're grateful tomorrow.
