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Speaker: Jim McNerney, Chairman, President, and Chief Executive Officer, The Boeing Company
Presider: David G. Bradley, Chairman, Atlantic Media Company
September 12, 2012
Boeing chairman, president, and chief executive officer Jim McNerney discusses the involvement of the business community in foreign policy; U.S. global competitiveness and the challenge of balancing fiscal austerity with necessary technology and innovation investment; and Boeing's outlook for the future.
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