Sentences with phrase «written by billionaire»

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The lawsuit, which was secretly financed by Silicon Valley billionaire Peter Thiel, may be a «personal vendetta» against Gawker, as Denton wrote in a memo to staffers on Monday.

Melinda Gates first heard about the controversial memo written by an engineer at Google from her husband, Bill — the billionaire founder of Microsoft.

Jesus you are not writing a book get to the point Also I have to agree, we already have one dodgy Russian billionaire (can't even bring myself to mention his name) who nearly ruined the premier league by pumping cash into Chelski somewhere like 800 million (who can count it this stage) I won't even mention how much city spent buying the league also.

We should design the biggest protesting plan that the world of football has ever seen, we should show the world that even in the era that money and billionaires are trying to corrupt football, fans still can take control, when we don't buy tickets or any merchandises the board wont profit, Emirates Stadium should be filled with very few people all holding banners with «Kroenke out» written on it, we should use ArsenalFanTV to destroy Kroenke, we have the tools, we should just use them in the right way and then we will defeat Kroenke, from last season i stopped buying anything Arsenal related and just watched Arsenal getting trashed by teams and it just made me extremely sad!!!

Howie Hawkins, a Green Party co-founder and member of the socialist group Solidarity, wrote an essay in May for the ISO's Socialist Worker website attacking Sanders for «violating the first principle of socialist politics: class independence,» consorting with the «billionaire class» by pledging to «support their candidate» if he loses the Democratic primary.

«When billionaire developers beg for taxpayer handouts to make their projects work, they must do better by the people they hire,» his written statement reads.

Not anymore,» stated a blog post on the company's website, written by founder Jeff Bezos, the billionaire who also founded Amazon.com.

Rules Don't Apply, which Beatty also wrote and co-produced, is a dramedy revolving around the romantic entanglements of an ingenue actress (played by Lily Collins) and a driver (played by the new Han Solo, Alden Ehrenreich), both of whom are employed by eccentric billionaire Howard Hughes (played by Beatty).

The Black List screenplay, written by David Scarpa, centers on the 1973 kidnapping in Italy of J. Paul Getty III — the rebellious teenage grandson of oil billionaire J. Paul Getty, who was reluctant to pay the $ 17 million ransom demanded by the kidnappers.

BEST SCREENPLAY «The Social Network», written by Aaron Sorkin based on the book «The Accidental Billionaires» by Ben Mezrich Runners - up: «The King's Speech», written by David Seidler «True Grit», written by Joel Coen & Ethan Coen based on the novel by Charles Portis

This is partly because it's a relief to see her play a character who is like Anastasia, but far more willing to explore the world beyond a billionaire's glassed - in castle; it's like another layer of fan - fiction, written by someone who cares if Anastasia has agency.

Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, which was written by Chris Terrio and David S. Goyer, is about a billionaire vigilante who picks a fight with a superpowered alien for accidentally toppling one of his skyscrapers.

Rules Don't Apply PG - 13 for sexual material including brief strong language, thematic elements and drug references Rotten Tomatoes Score: 55 % It's been nearly twenty years since Warren Beatty has written, directed and starred in a movie (the last time was 1998's Bulworth), and this time he's back with a story about a young actress and her chauffeur (Lily Collins and Alden Ehrenreich) who work for the reclusive billionaire Howard Hughes (played by Beatty).

And as directed by Danny Boyle and written by Simon Beaufoy, who is also credited as the series» creator, the story of his extended refusal to pay any ransom for his grandson (Beach Rats breakout Harris Dickinson) is the story of generational strife, an old, unfeeling billionaire enraged as much by the freedom, carelessness, and vigor of youth as he is the unyielding march of time and the inevitability of his death.

Following a reclusive computer - genius billionaire (Oscar Isaac) enlisting the help of an employee (Domhnall Gleeson) to see if his new humanoid A.I. (Alicia Vikander) can pass for human, the film finds new life in the often - tired robot / singularity theme, thanks to airtight writing, three terrific performances (Isaac in particular stands out) and direction marked by a craft and confidence that belies Garland's first - timer status.

Written by David Scarpa and based on John Pearson's book «Painfully Rich: The Outrageous Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Heirs of J Paul Getty,» 80 - year - old director Ridley Scott's («Alien: Covenant») All the Money in the World tackles such an explosive story, the kidnapping of John Paul Getty III (Charlie Plummer, «The Dinner»), grandson of oil tycoon John Paul Getty (Christopher Plummer, «The Man Who Invented Christmas»), and a billionaire said to be the richest man in the world.

They are funded by the same billionaires, push the same ALEC - written laws, and falsely claim to be speaking for parents.

David Berliner Regents» Professor Emeritus, Arizona State University «The Mismeasure of Education is a magnificent work, an elegantly written, brilliantly argued and erudite exposition on why the «what,» «how» and «why» of effective teaching can not be adequately demonstrated by sets of algorithms spawned in the ideological laboratories of scientific management at the behest of billionaire investors... This book will serve as a sword of Damocles, hanging over the head of the nation's educational tribunals and their adsentatores, ingratiators and sycophants in the business community... The Mismeasure of Education will have a profound resonance with those who are fed up with the hijacking of our nation's education system.

Book of Numbers By Joshua Cohen Random House • $ 18 • ISBN 9780812986655 In this epic and ambitious novel, the narrator is a ghostwriter named Joshua Cohen who's been hired to write the memoir of a tech billionaire also named Joshua Cohen.

Take finance — Books written by people who haven't made fortunes tend to sell much more than books written by actual billionaires.

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They've written letters to the government demanding that Ottawa stop a swarm of activist groups backed by foreign billionaires from hijacking — as the prime minister himself put it — the hearings over the Canadian Northern Gateway pipeline that would carry our oil from Alberta to B.C. Canadians have been calling into radio shows and writing blogs, and spreading the word in their communities about the fact that this crucial decision over Canada's national energy policy is being infiltrated by what are essentially the well - paid lobbyists of wealthy and powerful foreign interests.

The billionaire Jeremy Grantham — who has around $ 1.5 billion worth of stock in oil companies — is the benefactor of the influential Grantham Research Institute for Climate Change, headed by Lord Nicholas Stern, who wrote The Stern Review on the Economics of Climate Change.

«We plan to revolutionize the automobile industry by creating an integrated, intelligent mobility system that protects the earth and improves the living environment of mankind,» Jia Yueting, the billionaire founder and chief executive of Leshi TV, an Internet video service, wrote in a letter to Nevada legislators.