Word: pledgees
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
A 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...
The news comes weeks after Oracle Corp. CEO Lawrence J. Ellison reneged on his $115 million pledge to the University. Ellison said that with Summers’ departure, he “lost confidence that that money would be well spent.”
The apparent lack of supervision makes it harder for military officials to cast this as a one-time, isolated incident, particularly after an Army general concluded last week that Marine officers had been negligent in failing to probe the deaths in Haditha. In a joint statement, the U.S. ambassador and...
Investing guru Warren Buffett -- above right, with Bill and Melinda Gates -- announced last week that he will gradually transfer more than $30 billion of stock in his Berkshire Hathaway firm to the Gates Foundation, which works to improve global health and U.S. education. Each installment must be spent in the...
SAN JOSE, Calif.—Oracle Corp. Chief Executive Officer Lawrence J. Ellison rescinded a year-old pledge to donate $115 million to Harvard on Wednesday, saying that he had lost confidence in the University’s ability to spend the money now that University President Lawrence H...