In fact, it was teeming with smart, ambitious men whose business instincts were in many cases as sharp as those of the CEOs who had wined and dined me six months earlier when I was a rising star in the Missouri Senate.
De hecho, estaba lleno de hombres ambiciosos e inteligentes cuyos instintos empresariales eran en muchos casos tan agudos como los de esos directivos que cenaron conmigo 6 meses antes cuando era una "estrella en ascenso" en el Senado de Missouri.