Tulsa, OK CFA Forecasting Dinner

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CFA Annual Forecasting Dinner
Come join CFA Society Oklahoma for our Annual Forecast Dinner.
Start Time 1/22/2014 5:30 PM
End Time 1/22/2014 9:00 PM
Tulsa,  Oklahoma
DoubleTree in downtown Tulsa
616 W. Seventh Street
Tulsa, Oklahoma 74127-8983

Speaker Dr. Michael Munger of Duke University
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