Marion Blakey
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Marion Blakey
Marion Clifton Blakeyis president and chief executive officer of Rolls-Royce North America. Prior to joining Rolls-Royce, she served as the eighth full-time chief executive of the Aerospace Industries Association, an American defense industry trade association from 2007-2015. Before this, she served a five-year term as the 15th Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration. Blakey was the second woman to hold the position, serving as a successor to Jane Garvey, the first woman to hold the Administrator title. She was the...
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You say, 'Whew, we're going to have to be prepared for this phenomenon.
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After months of negotiation and extensive review of key issues, they just aren't moving on the issues at the heart of the negotiations,
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