Two partners, George Roberts and Michael Michelson, are to appear on Thursday before executives of the Washington state pension fund to solicit $1.5 billion.
Still, the postmaster general, John E. Potter, stressed the urgency of the financial crisis in Washington in a briefing before executives of businesses that use the mail heavily as well as the Postal Regulatory Commission.
With just four days to go before top executives of Ford and Firestone are scheduled to testify before two House Energy and Commerce Committee panels, the two companies remain bitterly critical of each other.
Before that the executives of 32 teams that will compete for a share of a record pool of $1.55 billion in this season's Champions League, were to learn on Thursday evening who they have drawn in the league phase.
But all that was before the former chief executives of Enron and WorldCom refused to testify before Congress, before the chief executive of Tyco International was charged with tax evasion and before the former chief executive of ImClone Systems was arrested on insider trading charges.
"This enables small companies and any researcher that has a grant to do science that they could never do before," Jason Stowe, chief executive of Cycle Computing, said in an interview.
function than ever before," said Philip B. Livingston, chief executive of Finance Executives International, a trade association.
"It's much easier and much cheaper than it's ever been before," said Bradley Stewart, chief executive of XOJet.
"More people are playing games than ever before," said Bobby Kotick, chief executive of Activision, whose franchises have included Doom, Quake and Tony Hawk.
"We've kind of been through this before," said Jeff Potter, chief executive of Exclusive Resorts, the largest club, with more than 3,400 members.
"The handset makers are responding differently than they have before," said Greg Ballard, chief executive of the mobile game maker Glu Mobile.
