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He works for Boeing, the U.S.'s biggest exporter. A few years ago, those would have been fighting words at the Everett plant where Detton works, outside Seattle. But now even ceo Phil Condit is pushing the same line. Boeing, he insists, is becoming faster, more agile, more diversified. This sort of talk elicits snickering halfway around the world, at the Toulouse, France, headquarters of Boeing's archrival, Airbus Industrie.