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...Gathered in a wood-panelled room in Maggiano’s Little Italy, the members of the Rotary Club of Buckhead were optimistic too....
...Ringfencing has drawbacks, said Graham Kellas, an analyst at consultancy Wood Mackenzie....
...The new funding will swell the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation’s endowment by 40 per cent. 3....
...Inside, there’s a rustic aesthetic of sun-bleached wood, paper lamps and chunky, hand-hewn furniture, meaning there’s no fear of anything getting scratched or broken by excitable children....
...Cathie Wood’s Ark cuts China positions Cathie Wood, one of the world’s most closely watched investors, said her fund had “dramatically” reduced its exposure to China....
...The advances may pose a problem for investors, however, as declining wholesale prices may reduce the sector’s profitability, Wood Mac said....
...The Microsoft billionaire and his wife Melinda decided to focus on curing neglected tropical diseases in the 2000s....
...In Robin Stevens’ Top Marks for Murder (Puffin, RRP£6.99), the Deepdean Detective Society is rocked when one of its members spies from afar a woman being attacked in the woods....
...George Soros was among the small group in a wood-panelled chamber overlooked by the portraits of mutton-chop-whiskered Victorians. I was next to Annan’s wife, Nane, a Swedish lawyer....
...The writer is co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation...
...Ms Woods grew up in Detroit, Michigan where she studied economics at undergraduate level....
...Wendy Woods is a partner and managing director of The Boston Consulting Group....
...Ikea also comes a close second to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, as one of the biggest donors to child welfare in India....
...“The reasons to be negative on the pound are stacking up,” says Melinda Burgess at Royal Bank of Scotland....
...But Melinda Young, the senior staff member in charge of Oxfam’s Banda Aceh office during an August visit by the Financial Times, said the charity was unlikely to go back and do any repairs....
...Jane Kidd, an analyst with Wood Mackenzie, praises the strength of GSK’s pipeline....
...For 90 minutes, the two men and Melinda Gates, Bill’s charismatic wife, talk to staff and participants and tour the facilities....
...What he’s doing with it: The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation controls $27bn, and focuses on improving the health and living conditions of some of the world’s poorest people....
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