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Leominster library gets ready to mark 100th anniversary
(18 Mar 2010 15:06)
... also called the "Carnegie building" because Leominster received a $27,500 grant from wealthy philanthropist Andrew Carnegie to build it. All told, the original building cost $63,764, with additional private donations ...
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This Valley Life: Despite Internet, libraries still valued by many
(18 Mar 2010 12:37)
... staff for their good work, and if you feel inspired, follow the example of Andrew Carnegie and make a tax-deductible donation to help maintain our wonderful libraries. ...
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Andrew Carnegie: Steel Investor
(15 Mar 2010 04:54)
... Andrew Carnegie was the inventor of vertical integration. There's an old joke that after a businessman ...
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Georgia's Cumberland Island a diamond in the rough (Yesterday)
(15 Mar 2010 06:04)
... in the late 1880s by Thomas Carnegie, the brother and partner of Andrew Carnegie. Andrew Carnegie lived in the mansion during the winter. It was destroyed by fire in 1959. ...
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Report proposes taxing Google and other aggregators to help local newspapers
(15 Mar 2010 12:32)
... was funded by the Carnegie UK Trust, a non-profit foundation established in 1913 by Andrew Carnegie, the Scottish-American philanthropist. ...
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Celebrating life beyond belief
(14 Mar 2010 14:13)
... great philanthropists of the 20th century were professed atheists: Bill Gates, Warren Buffet and Andrew Carnegie. (The exception was Nelson D. Rockefeller, a Protestant.) Speaking of money, no tier of ...
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Weekend life: It's 48 hours 'til Monday
(15 Mar 2010 01:33)
... country is not the humour-free land of legend. Back on the east coast, The Andrew Carnegie Birthplace Museum in Dunfermline is currently hosting an exhibition of photography by the Fife ...
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Secrets Of The World's Wealthiest People
(15 Mar 2010 04:54)
... go through the roof. 3. Never stop believing in what you're doing US billionaire Andrew Carnegie, whose steel company became part of what's now , once gave a young lawyer ...
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JABULANI SIKHAKHANE: The Slim test for SA's BEE wheeler-dealers
(15 Mar 2010 06:15)
... to developing countries. The robber barons of the US John Rockefeller, JP Morgan, Andrew Carnegie, and Cornelius Vanderbilt all used their political connections to build or protect their ...
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The Slim Test for SA's BEE Wheeler-Dealers [opinion]
(15 Mar 2010 13:59)
... to developing countries. The robber barons of the US -- John Rockefeller, JP Morgan, Andrew Carnegie, and Cornelius Vanderbilt -- all used their political connections to build or protect their ...
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The Morning File: Dear Carlos Slim: We hear you like baseball ...
(15 Mar 2010 17:05)
... Forbes list, if there had been a Forbes list back in the days of Andrew Carnegie and Henry Clay Frick. Instead, we have to take pride now primarily in how ...
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Expansions, renovations coming to city, Kirkwood, St. Peters.
(13 Mar 2010 06:52)
... in 1893, a swimming pool, music hall and gymnasium were added to the first Andrew Carnegie library in Braddock, Pa., a Pittsburgh suburb. At the time, few homes were equipped ...
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For the Love of Business
(13 Mar 2010 13:32)
... "survival-of-the-fittest" in business as a near religious dogma. British philosopher Herbert Spencer introduced rags-to-riches Andrew Carnegie to Darwin's theory of natural selection in finance. Alfred P. Sloan, GM's chairman declared, ...
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How rich is Steve Jobs today?
(11 Mar 2010 16:18)
... wealth accumulation and figure out how to best give back to society. I think Andrew Carnegie was quoted as saying something to the effect of "It's not immoral to get ...
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Living richly
(11 Mar 2010 20:33)
... vaccinations. Mr Buffett has contributed generously to this fund. It was their fellow American, Andrew Carnegie, who said that the man who dies thus rich dies disgraced. What Messrs Gates ...
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