It's Who Ya Know

摘要

Quick: name a possible winner in the rebuild Iraq sweepstakes with contracts worth up to $1.3 billion. No, it's not Halliburton or Bechtel Group. It's Life, Energy & Technology Holdings, a tiny outfit in Utica, N.Y. with dubious finances and unproven technology. Its 40-year-old Northern Ireland-born founder, Christopher McCormack, is more comfortable in greasy overalls than in pinstripes. But he had the foresight to hire a couple of political types who have mighty Washington, D.C. Rolodexes.