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Lawmakers love to hear directly from CEOs. The business leaders that lawmakers want to see most, though, are the up-and-comers who run fast-growing e-commerce companies. With their cachet and cash, tech executives are in high demand on Capitol Hill. Especially those who work and live a 30-minute drive away. Indeed, geography was the genesis of what can be thought of as the New Washington Lobby. In the spring of 1999, Mark Bisnow, an executive at Virginia's MicroStrategy and a former Senate aide, rented a bus and took nine Democratic Senators on a tour...
...guard Cuban-American leadership, the city of Miami is refusing to let the Latin Grammy Awards be held there because performers from Castro's Cuba may be part of the program. The move will cost the town some $40 million in revenue and considerable pop-culture cachet. And so last week, John de Leon, 38, a Cuban American who is president of the Miami chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union, filed suit to void the local law that prevents shows by artists from Castro's Cuba. In the past, De Leon might have received instant death threats from militant...
...recruits about $50,000 a year--mere beer money to many of the top science grads, who are courted with six-figure salaries and stock options by Internet start-ups and established tech firms. But the agency carries a certain cachet among some lab dwellers. "I'm interested in the challenge, the exciting lifestyle," says Alan, 30, a postdoctoral student of biomedicine at M.I.T. (He and others asked that their last names not be used.) The dotcoms are too volatile, he says, and too many big companies are "on cruise control." Quentin, 20, a junior student of electrical engineering, says...
...market also helped. Over the past five years, giants like Brown-Forman and Seagram (Tequila Don Julio) and powerhouses Diageo (Cuervo's distributor) and Allied Domecq (Sauza's) have bought tequila distilleries in Mexico or gone into partnerships there in order to create new products. Tequila's cachet has also attracted such smaller spiritmakers as Pernod Ricard, which bought Mexico's boutique Tequila Viuda de Romero in January...
...because it's a rarity; in Texas, this sort of story is almost routine. Since reinstating the death penalty in 1982, Texas has executed 207 people - 120 of them during George W. Bush's five-year tenure as governor. On a national scale, Beets' situation didn't have much cachet either; Florida executed two convicted murderers this week alone. We should have become used to this...