It's not that used to lobbying Washington, but the likes of Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg are keen to open up the gates to more of the algorithmic whizz-kids he wants to recruit.

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"The strike opened up all the gates that we wanted to open in terms of developing more aggressive strategies, " says Joseph Guerrisi, a former UPS executive and now a director with Arlington, Va.

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They were clearly up for baseball after a tough winter, at least among the true loyalists that were lined up two hours before game time waiting for the gates to open.

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