english: 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.
non_english: Het zat vol slimme, ambitieuze mannen wier zakeninstinct vaak even scherp was als dat van de CEO's met wie ik zes maanden eerder  gegeten en gedronken had, toen ik een rijzende ster was  in de senaat van Missouri.