LOBBYING ISN'T ALL GRILLED RIBEYES and Grey Goose martinis.On Sept.22 a dozen Wall Street lobbyists jammed into La Loma,a noisy Mexican joint on Capitol Hill,to break tacos with eight Senate staffers.The dry topic,pension-plan regs,was no match for the spicy cuisine.But the high stakes-the rules for running US4.5 trillion in pension assets managed by the financial-services industry-more than made up for such humble surroundings.
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