Word: buffett
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Vernon route. Government funding for arts institutions has dried up, and a migration in philanthropy from historic preservation to social causes is leaving museums behind. Colonial Williamsburg was born as a historical site in 1926 with funding from John D. Rockefeller Jr. But when a modern Rockefeller equivalent, Warren Buffett, recently made his big gift, it was to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation's disease hunters, not to museums...
...Helping to drive this movement are the highly publicized activities of the Gates Foundation and the staggering generosity of Warren Buffett, the U.S. investor who announced in June that he would ultimately give nearly all of his $44 billion fortune to the Gates organization. Buffett's announcement seems to have had a snowball effect. In July Indian-born mining tycoon Anil Agarwal pledged to give $1 billion to help build a world-class university for his native country, telling TIME, "India desperately needs to improve education ... [And] what is the point of money if it's not made...
Just because a guy is frugal, bespectacled and leery of tech stocks doesn't mean he isn't a playa. WARREN BUFFETT, 76, the world's second-richest man, just married ASTRID MENKS, 60, at his daughter's Omaha, Neb., home. That's no big surprise: they have been together for decades. The odd thing is Buffett was married to his first wife until her death in 2004, and she approved of his relationship with Menks (she introduced them). After the 15-min. civil ceremony, the wedding party dined at a seafood place. And, since...
...Warren Buffett...
...Budding Entrepreneur Microsoft chairman Bill Gates announced last month that he was giving up his day-to-day duties at the company to devote more time to charitable giving-and with Warren Buffett's blockbuster $30 billion pledge to the Gates Foundation, he will be busy. TIME's April 16, 1984, cover story profiled the future philanthropist...