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| | CNN.com - Boeing taking orders for 7E7 - Dec. 16, 2003 |
 | | Boeing said Tuesday the 200- to 250-seat 7E7 will be built in the Seattle suburb of Everett, Washington, home of Boeing's other wide-body jets, ending months of speculation that the work might go elsewhere. |
 | | Without the 7E7, analysts say Boeing would be relegated to also-ran status in the two-horse race with Airbus, which has become the world's most prolific jetliner maker with a backlog of 1,467 jet orders compared with Boeing's 1,112. |
 | | The 7E7 would replace the slow-selling 757, which Boeing is discontinuing, and the 767 line, which has slowed to just one aircraft per month to sustain production until a controversial order for 100 U.S. Air Force fuel tankers is finalized. |
| www.cnn.com /2003/BUSINESS/12/16/boeing.newjet.reut/index.html (530 words) |
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