The company's owner, Greg Lundgren, and his partner, Jim Nelsen, who are both stained-glass artists, started their business in the spring of 2002 after years of casting glass items for high-end residential projects.
Too often, diversity advocates say, company executives recruit familiar business colleagues to fill a seat instead of casting a wide net.
New York City and Los Angeles have the highest concentration of casting calls, since both cities are big into the movie business.
But even apart from that, Mehlman, Singer and many other Republicans say that marriage equality, which in fact gets the government out of the business of controlling and casting judgment on people's private lives, is consistent with conservative principles.
The back-stage business of broad-casting had by then taken his interest.
But it also strongly suggests that the McWane way is not the only way to survive, and succeed, in the dangerous and increasingly competitive business of making cast-iron pipe.
Danny Sullivan, editor of Search Engine Watch, a Web newsletter, said that in some niches of the software business, Google is casting the same sort of shadow over Silicon Valley that Microsoft once did.
Gurle, whose background comes right out of business software central casting with stints at Microsoft Lync, Skype and Thomson Reuters, would seem uniquely qualified to build such a product.
But the new theory of business genes casts unwelcome doubt on whether we are right.
Clive Palmer has lost a legal bid to force his estranged Chinese business partner to pay his business empire millions of dollars, casting doubt on the future of his Queensland Nickel refinery.
