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It is one thing to have a bucket list at any age. It is something else entirely to have a bucket list that sends you to college for the first time at 92 — or that sends you on your maiden flight at the controls of a single-engine airplane at 97.

These are the bucket list accomplishments of Cecile Tegler (92) and Mildred “Milly” Reeves (97). And neither of them is done yet.

“I never even thought about having a bucket list,” said Reeves, a resident at Mount View Assisted Living in Lockport, N.Y., who became familiar with the insides of airplanes in her 20s, when she was a small-parts inspector for

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It is one thing to have a bucket list at any age. It is something else entirely to have a bucket list that sends you to college for the first time at 92 — or that sends you on your maiden flight at the controls of a single-engine airplane at 97.

These are the bucket list accomplishments of Cecile Tegler (92) and Mildred “Milly” Reeves (97). And neither of them is done yet.

“I never even thought about having a bucket list,” said Reeves, a resident at Mount View Assisted Living in Lockport, N.Y., who became familiar with the insides of airplanes in her 20s, when she was a small-parts inspector for Bell Aircraft during World War II. After the war ended, she stayed home and had seven daughters — so the notion of ever flying a plane solo grew increasingly distant.

Nor had Tegler, her friend and fellow resident at Mount View, ever created a real bucket list. What she did have, however, was an urge to go to college, since her folks — who had to support their own parents — didn’t have the money to pay for college when she was in her late teens. Both of Tegler’s daughters graduated from college, but she never imagined that she could go to college, too.

Within the past year — because of unusual outreach efforts by staff at

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WASHINGTON — While everyone was watching James Comey’s testimony in the Senate on Thursday, the other side of the Capitol was more quietly (but also consequentially) passing a piece of legislation that would have far-reaching financial implications if it becomes law.

The bill is called the Financial Choice Act, and it passed the GOP-led House in a 233-to-186 party-line vote. The legislation is designed to dismantle much of the 2010 Dodd-Frank law signed by President Barack Obama and passed by a Democrat-controlled Congress in the wake of the financial crisis.

Among the many implications of the bill were it to become law is an overhaul of the process by which stockholders can file and pass shareholder resolutions that ask corporations to change policies. About 175 of the roughly 1,000 shareholder resolutions submitted to companies in 2016 concerned corporate climate-change policy.

Though shareholder resolutions have been used for decades to press firms in the energy sector and elsewhere to disclose the risks climate change may pose to their businesses, it’s only very recently that climate-related resolutions have had much success. Last week, a majority of ExxonMobil shareholders voted to instruct the company to disclose more information about the risk it faces from climate-change regulation. Last month, similar resolutions succeeded at oil and gas producer Occidental Petroleum and electric utility PPL Corp.

Let’s break down the new bill:

What are shareholder resolutions? They are proposals put forward by shareholders at annual company meetings in a process under rules set by the Securities and Exchange Commission. Though usually non-binding,

Article source: http://www.oregonlive.com/business/index.ssf/2017/06/what_the_dodd-frank_rollback_c.html

SEATTLE — In a business that plays out over decades, the attention of Boeing’s leadership is unshakably fixed on two key future jet programs that will be critical to this region.

In briefings before this month’s Paris Air Show, Boeing executives showed that the complex refashioning of its Everett manufacturing facility for the forthcoming 777X has made rapid progress since December. It all needs to come together perfectly for the large new jet to successfully enter service in 2020.

And a top executive offered strong hints that Boeing has made detailed plans for the future launch of an all-new 797 jet — built in a radically different way that will be “transformational” for the company and could have crucial ramifications for Washington state.

New automated production methods for both jet programs are central to Boeing’s thinking.

In his first appearance before journalists, new Commercial Airplanes Chief Executive Kevin McAllister said Boeing will look to technology — both on its airplanes and in its factories — to differentiate itself from European rival Airbus as well as the Canadian, Chinese and Russian contenders that have newly entered the large commercial jet business.

“We have a very formidable competitor and we have emergent competitors,” said McAllister. “We can never stand still.”

Heavy 777X investment

A near-term glut of widebody aircraft has depressed orders for the biggest jets and forced Boeing to slash 777 jet production in Everett — and to cut more than 8,400 local jobs in the past year.

Yet despite that near-term pain, Boeing remains confident in the long-term

Article source: http://www.oregonlive.com/business/index.ssf/2017/06/boeing_revs_up_robots_for_777x.html