The Boeing Co. will deliver eight fewer wide-body jets to buyers next year than previously anticipated, says Alan Mulally, head of Boeing Commercial Airplanes. Boeing still expects to deliver 275 to 300 commercial jets in 2003, but more will be the smaller 737s, with list prices of $40 million to $70 million, Mulally said Wednesday at an annual briefing for investment analysts. The forecast for this year remains 380 planes, he said. “Everything we know says that the range for 2003 is 275 to 300,” he said. “We’ve taken eight (wide-body) airplanes out of that plan, but we still have some more insight about upward pressure on the ’37s.” Mulally would not specify which wide-body models would be cut, but analysts said the impact would be chiefly on the 747 jumbojet built in Everett, which is listed at $180 million to $215 million.
The Internal Revenue Service has added 10 local numbers, including one in Everett, for people who want to schedule face-to-face meetings to resolve tax problems. The Everett number is 425-304-6811.
To make the job hunt easier for students and recruiting simpler for employers, Edmonds Community College has put all its career resources in one place and opened a Career Action Center. An open house for the new center will be 1 to 4 p.m. Thursday at the center, on the second floor of Lynnwood Hall. The center assists students to achieve their career goals by helping them learn job search skills and providing job and internship referrals. Its Web site, careeractioncenter.edcc.edu, offers a step-by-step guide to building job search skills and a list of hot links for employment and career resources.
The directors of Lynnwood-based City Bank have agreed to maintain the company’s quarterly dividend at 8 cents a share. The dividend will be paid June 28 to shareholders of record as of June 14.
In what is expected to be the beginning of a spate of long-feared layoffs, more than 700 employees at IBM Corp. plants around the United States were told Thursday that their jobs will be eliminated. Most of the jobs cut belong to designers of software for the iSeries and zSeries computers, along with some accounting and finance positions, officials said. The employees will remain on the payroll for 60 days; half will have the opportunity to seek jobs elsewhere inside IBM, the company said.
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