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Boeing Co., the No. 1 planemaker, said it’s close to sealing the first order for a 737-8 Max airliner in a business jet layout, and that government buyers are showing interest in the new 787 Dreamliner and 747-8 models.
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Boeing Co. expects to deliver eight 747-8 planes to VIP customers this year, as the newest version of its biggest plane enters service.
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Ann Kolstad, one of 45 nurses the Marshfield Clinic in Wisconsin plans to hire to help it comply with the health-care overhaul, spent 20 minutes recently helping a 43-year-old woman sort out her medical issues.
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Todd Akin, whose remarks on abortion and rape led fellow Republicans to urge him to quit as the party’s Senate candidate in Missouri, reiterated his vow to stay in the race as authorities investigate threats against him.
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President Barack Obama’s insistence on higher taxes for top earners and Republicans’ refusal to raise rates leaves negotiators with arithmetically complex and politically fraught choices.
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Boeing Co. said the first 747-8 Intercontinental, the passenger version of the planemaker’s biggest jumbo jet, needs only five to seven days of test flying toward certification for commercial duties.
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Lockheed Martin Corp. ’s first new warship for operating close to shore developed a crack as long as six inches through its hull during sea trials, prompting a U.S. Navy investigation of the design.
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Corporate executives are increasingly seeking jets that can fly as far as New York to Shanghai and cruise just under the speed of sound, tilting the market toward the biggest, most luxurious models.
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Ecolab Inc., the largest provider of chemicals and services for water and wastewater treatment, agreed to buy Champion Technologies Inc. for about $2.2 billion in cash and stock, in a bid to become the largest oil-field chemicals supplier in North America.
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T. Boone Pickens, who’s been saying for more than a year that Congress was poised to pass his plan to subsidize natural-gas vehicles, may not have been expecting opposition led by fellow billionaire Charles Koch.
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