Exec, wife give Stanford $43.5 million
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SAN FRANCISCO (CBS.MW) -- Berkshire Hathaway vice-chairman Charles Munger and his wife Nancy Munger on Thursday donated $43.5 million to Stanford University and its law school.
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explanation of market-timing, further attorney comment. Picks up last graf. Also moving on general news wires. DENVER  _ The former chief executive of Invesco Funds Group has agreed to pay $500,000 to
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Democratic presidential candidates Barack Obama is giving charity more than $40,000 in past political contributions linked to Chicago real estate developer and fast food magnate Antoin "Tony" Rezko, who is facing federal corruption charges, his campaign said Saturday.
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Former President Clinton made more than $10 million in paid speeches last year, according to new filings that show he and his presidential-candidate wife have at least $10 million in the bank, and may have closer to $50 million.
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The Bay Area&#39;s super rich had mixed financial results over the past year with the exception of Google&#39;s top executives, whose wealth soared thanks to their company&#39;s recent initial public offering.
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Carly Fiorina, who was ousted  last week as chairman and CEO of Hewlett-Packard Co. HPQ.N,  will have received $45 million worth in stock options and  severance pay on top of her regular salary and cash bonuses  after five years at the company, a spokeswoman said on Monday.
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Two former directors at Putnam Investments have agreed to pay $400,000 each to settle charges that they had engaged in improper trading.
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An environmentally minded California software firm says it will give $5,000 to every one of its 1,500 US workers who buys a gas-electric hybrid vehicle rated 45 miles per gallon or more in highway driving.
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45-year-old Fred Couples continued his domination of the Merrill Lynch Skins Game this year, winning a total of US$640,000 across the two-day tournament at the Trilogy Golf Club.
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Apple Inc. Chief Executive Steve Jobs continued his tradition of taking home only $1 in salary in 2007, when he also gained $14.6 million on paper by exercising stock options that were about to expire, according to a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
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A lunch date with billionaire investor Warren Buffett is getting pricier. Someone paid &#36;620,100 in an online charity auction to dine with the Oracle of Omaha in New York. In last year&#039;s auction, the winning bid was &#36;351,100.
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By Stephen Foley  John Mack, the chief executive of Morgan Stanley, has been handed a $40m ([pound]20.5m) Christmas bonus, the largest ever awarded to a Wall Street boss.
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ANN ARBOR, Mich. -- The University of Michigan is in line to get another substantial gift. The founder of an information technology company who graduated from the university and his diabetic wife are giving
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Chip maker Freescale Semiconductor   Inc. FSL.N said on Friday it agreed to be bought for $17.6   billion, or $40 a share in cash, by a private equity consortium   led by Blackstone Group, in what could be the biggest leveraged   buyout of a technology company.
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a former Microsoft Corp. executive and wife of founder Bill Gates -- to its board yesterday, adding the spouse of the world&#39;s richest
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Microsoft Corp. chairman Bill Gates contributed $400,000 to the campaign backing a California ballot measure that would make billions of dollars available for human embryonic
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Teresa Heinz Kerry, wife of  Democratic presidential candidate Sen. John Kerry, paid nearly  $800,000 in taxes on income of $5 million last year, according  to a summary of her tax return the Kerry campaign released on  Friday evening.