Word: warrens
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...RANK NAME CITIZENSHIP AGE NET WORTH * RESIDENCE 1 William Gates III U.S. 51 56.0 U.S. 2 Carlos Slim Helú Mexico 67 53.1 Mexico 3 Warren Buffett U.S. 76 52.4 U.S. 4 Ingvar Kamprad Sweden 81 33.0 Switzerland 5 Lakshmi Mittal India 56 32.0 Britain...
...Bill and Melinda Gates, backed by more than $30 billion of their own funds and an additional $31 billion of Warren Buffett's, can do the same. Like the Rockefeller Foundation, the Gates Foundation rightly looks to technology for the breakthroughs that can end extreme poverty on a global basis. Its original focus has been on health technologies, but now the foundation is expanding to agriculture, water and other areas that are also critical in the fight against poverty...
Indeed, the power of student loan companies to collect debt is so invasively strong that Harvard Professor Elizabeth Warren equated the industries’ methods to that of organized crime. This legislation came about as a result of congressional lobbying by private loan companies under the auspices of funding higher education, coincidentally at a time when government funding of education was hitting bottom. Federal legislation is currently being used by business to make money at the expense of institutions and students. And as long as there is money to be made, scandals will occur and students will be in debt...
...Warren Buffet us looking around for someone to succeed him, eventually, as chairman of Berkshire Hathaway. Since that company's main asset is Warren Buffett, it's an important choice. But Buffett told the Wall Street Journal recently that he doesn't care if the person in question is a college graduate...
...Orsi, the Warren professor of the history of religion in America, has accepted a chaired position in religious studies and a joint appointment in history at Northwestern. He said he is leaving primarily because the Divinity School did not offer—or seriously consider offering—a faculty position to his wife, Christine Helmer, a senior scholar there...