William Henry Gates III‚ founder‚ chairman and CEO of Redmond‚ Washington-based Microsoft Corp. Although he arouses as much animosity as admiration for his hardball tactics (there’s even a book about his mortal enemies: Gary Rivlin’s The Plot to Get Bill Gates‚ Times Books)‚ everyone‚ friend or foe recognizes Gates as the rightful Usher-in-Chief of the Information Age. It all started when‚ at age 25‚ Gates persuaded IBM to let him keep the rights to the DOS operating system they had him develop for
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The road a bill takes to becoming a law is a long and tedious process. First‚ the proposed bill goes through the House of representatives. Once the bill has been approved by the House‚ it is then begins its journey through the Senate. After the bill has been endorsed by the Senate‚ the houses of congress then meet in conference committees to prepare the bill to be sent to the White House. To summarize‚ the path the bill takes to become a law is a fairly complex impediment. <br> <br>Now to begin‚
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Bill Gates William Henry Gates the Third or also known as Bill Gates is the co-founder of the huge Microsoft Corporation. This billionaire was born in Seattle on the 28th of October 1955 and grew up there with his two sisters‚ Kristi and Libby. His father‚ William Henry Gates Senior was a prominent Seattle lawyer‚ and his mother‚ Mary Maxwell Gates was a schoolteacher at the University of Washington regent and chairwoman of United Way International. His great-grandfather was a state legislator
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Bill Gates has been a CEO of Microsoft in the past and is currently a CEO of Cascade Investment. “Bill Gates founded the world’s largest software business‚ Microsoft‚ and subsequently became one of the richest men in the world” (“Bill Gates Biography” par.1). He started without having anything and took a huge risk of starting the new business by himself. Bill Gates has worked very hard his entire life generating the Microsoft company
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HEALTH BILL IN THE PHILIPPINES There are four bills pertaining to reproductive health and/or population management that have been filed for deliberation in both the House of Representatives and the Senate for the 14th Congress. These are House Bill No. 17 authored by Rep. Edcel Lagman‚ House Bill No. 812 authored by Rep. Janette Garin‚ Senate Bill No. 40 authored by Sen. Rodolfo Biazon and Senate Bill No. 43 authored by Sen. Panfilo Lacson. The most controversial of these bills is House Bill No. 17
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Profile of Bill Gates Profiles of Global Leaders July 14‚ 2010 Abstract This paper will outline a profile of Microsoft founder Bill Gates. I will provide background information about his upbringing‚ his early exposure to computers‚ and his founding of Microsoft. I will then detail his unique leadership skills which have allowed him to take his company from a small upstart to a global icon. Childhood William (Bill) Henry Gates III was born in 1955 in Seattle‚ Washington to a middle class
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Bill Gates is one of the richest people in the world. For many years‚ he was the richest. Bill Gates would have still been the richest man on earth if he had not been as philanthropic as he has been in the last two decades. He has even got Mark Zuckerberg and Warren Buffet to pledge half their fortunes for charity. Bill Gates is a legend in his own right. Very few people have shaped up the latter half of the 20th century as he had done. Not everyone can aspire to be a Bill Gates and not many can
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Bill Clinton: A Short Biography On August 19‚ 1946 Virginia Cassidy Blythe gave birth to William Jefferson Blythe III in Hope‚ Arkansas(Beschloss). At the time this was not an important event but this child would later become known as our 42nd president.President Clinton was born to a single mother due to the fact that his biological father was killed in an auto accident several months before his birth. Approximately two years after little Bill was born his mother left him with her parents to seek
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Bill Gates: Before Microsoft From his first business venture through his multi-billion dollar deals‚ Bill Gates has always been a ferocious and keen businessman. Bill Gates first started tinkering with computers when his high school‚ Lakeside Prep‚ wanted to acquaint its students with computers. In 1968 the school held a fund raiser to buy computer time on a DEC PDP-10 computer that was owned by General Electric. Lakeside was able to raise enough money for what they thought would be ample
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Throughout his presidential career‚ Bill Clinton was challenged by many economical problems. He also faced a huge personal problem that put him at risk of losing his presidency‚ that being the scandal with Monica Lewinsky. Republicans despised Bill Clinton; they always pointed out his flaws and did whatever they could to get him out of office. Clinton fought through all of these problems and the reason he overcame them were because he was diligent and hard working‚ took advantage of all
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