Sentences with phrase «other billionaire families»
Other billionaire families like the Scaifes and companies like ExxonMobil have funneled tens of millions more to the same groups to bury climate science in public relations schemes designed to delay solutions to global warming.
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The billionaire on Monday donated about $ 3.17 billion of Berkshire Hathaway stock to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation as well as four other family charities, Reuters reports.
According to Page Six, a family source said Jackson became aware of cultural problems between them after Eissa was born and her husband, a Muslim billionaire, became more controlling, demanding that she tone down the overt sexuality of her performances and music videos, and cover more of her body, among other things.
But though 80 percent of the charters in her home state perform worse than traditional public schools, DeVos — a billionaire whose family has also opposed workers» rights, gay marriage and has contributed heavily to a variety of other right - wing causes — has led the way in resisting any attempts to regulate or improve Michigan charter performance.
Among his other television credits is the ABC comedy series «Big Shots,» in which he starred with Michael Vartan and Dylan McDermott; memorable recurring arcs on Ryan Murphy's «American Horror Story»; USA Network's drama «In Plain Sight»; «The Big Bang Theory»; «NUMB3RS»; and HBO's «The Larry Sanders Show» as Kenny, the shockingly uncreative creative executive; the Tom Hanks HBO production of «From the Earth to the Moon»; «Tracey Takes On...»; the telefilm «How to Marry a Billionaire»; «Extant»; «Children's Hospital»; «Psych»; «Bones»; «House»; «CSI»; «Law & Order: SVU»; Medium»; «Grey's Anatomy»; «Terminator: The Sarag Connor Chronicles»; and the ABC Family Channel original «See Jane Date.»
No major supporters have yet publicly called for pulling the plug, but anti-public education zealots like the billionaire Walton family and the Koch brothers have plenty of other places to invest in to try to bring down «government schools.»
As Anthony Cody and others have detailed, billionaires such as Bill Gates, Eli Broad, and the Walton family, set the education agenda, wrote the policy, worked political backchannels, and lined up the corporations who would profit.
Dealerships are looking good as investments for billionaires, family funds, and other investors, because of they can perform well in good times and bad, reports the Financial Post here: Shar... Read more
Helly Nahmad Pleads Not Guilty — The young blue - chip dealer and billionaire art family scion will be going to trial alongside nearly three dozen others named in a mafia - run gambling scandal, with Nahmad's lawyer saying, «We do not believe that Mr. Nahmad has knowingly violated the law....
Ali Ağaoğlu, a billionaire developer in Turkey, caused a stir last year when he admitted that his family's company — and most other developers — routinely used inappropriate materials during a building boom in Istanbul in recent decades, creating enormous vulnerability because of the long history of powerful earthquakes in the sprawling city.
Wealthy tycoons such as T. Boone Pickens, former President George H.W. Bush and his family, Hong Kong's Li Ka - shing, Philippines» Manuel V. Pangilinan and other Filipino billionaires, and others are also buying thousands of acres of land with aquifers, lakes, water rights, water utilities, and shares in water engineering and technology companies all over the world.
His case was championed by the group Families Against Mandatory Minimums, former FBI director Bill Sessions, conservative billionaire Charles Koch and others.
Cambridge Analytica is backed by the family of billionaire donor Robert Mercer, a hedge fund manager who also supported the Trump campaign and other conservative candidates and causes, including Bannon, the Trump campaign strategist.