Buffett pledges $30 billion to Gates foundation
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Billionaire investor and Berkshire  Hathaway Chief Executive Warren Buffett is donating about &#36;30  billion in stock to a charitable foundation started by  Microsoft Corp. co-founder Bill Gates, the firm said on Sunday.
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Bill Gates, the world s richest person with a net worth of $46.6 billion, is betting against the U.S. dollar.
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The recent philanthropic moves by Warren E. Buffett raise the question of exactly what the other billionaires have in mind for their money.
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LOS ANGELES -- The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation will give $1.9 million in hopes of improving student achievement in up to eight schools in the Los Angeles and Central Valley areas, it was announced Tuesday.
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City school officials are expected to announce a five (m) million dollar grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. The grant will help pay for the district&#39;s secondary school redesign plan, and create new partnerships with colleges in the area.
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Bill Gates remained atop the list of richest people in the United States, but investor Warren Buffett edged closer and Google&#39;s founders are rising fast, according to Forbes magazine.
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Warren Buffett plans to start a bonding agency for local and state governments.
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The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation on  Monday pledged $83.5 million to fight malaria by paying for  better controls, vaccine research and prevention of a disease  that kills more than a million people a year.
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Bill Gates, the world's richest man, is to donate nearly 20 million dollars for research into helping rice farmers deal with global warming, the International Rice Research Institute said Monday.
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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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Billionaire tycoon Warren Buffett outlines a timetable by which he wants most of his $48.4bn fortune donated to charity.
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Forbes magazine has again ranked Bill Gates as the richest person in the US, worth to $48 billion, but investor Warren Buffett has edged closer.
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The Group of Eight wealthiest nations pledged 60 billion dollars Friday to fight AIDS and malaria in Africa and uphold an earlier promise to boost development aid.
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Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates is  donating $750 million to pay for wider vaccination programs in  developing countries, British newspapers said on Tuesday.
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A woman is donating more than $128 million to a Quaker high school in honor of her late father, an economist who taught Warren Buffett. The gift, nearly twice the school's current endowment, is believed to be among the largest ever to a secondary school.
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Billionaire investor Warren Buffett  used his business clout and folksy wisdom to raise $1 million  for Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. Hillary Clinton on  Tuesday, telling big donors that Democrats are better than  Republicans at taking care of the less fortunate.
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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia -- The Bill &amp; Melinda Gates Foundation and the government of Norway yesterday pledged more than $1 billion to vaccinate millions of children against diseases that often kill, but are easily preventable.