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		<title>GVA Kidder Matthews posts latest industrial space numbers for Thurston County</title>
		<link>http://blog.thenewstribune.com/business/2009/11/20/gva-kidder-matthews-posts-latest-industrial-space-numbers-for-thurston-county/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:23:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>C.R. Roberts</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Beginning this week, commercial real estate broker GVA Kidder Matthews will be reviewing the quarterly state of industrial space in Thurston County.
For the third quarter, the brokerage reports 7,549,941 square feet of space available in the county, with 1,260,613 million square feet vacant.
This compares to figures from Jan. 1, which marked 7,186,047 square feet available, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Latest figures on Pierce County office and industrial space</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:13:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>C.R. Roberts</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Commercial real estate broker GVA Kidder Matthews is out with the latest quarterly report on commercial and industrial activity in the Puget Sound region.
According to the latest figures form Pierce County – as of Oct. 1 – there were 16,625,916 square feet of office space available, with 1.9 million square feet vacant. This works out [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Laid-off Boeing workers eligible for extra training, benefits</title>
		<link>http://blog.thenewstribune.com/business/2009/11/20/laid-off-boeing-workers-eligible-for-extra-training-benefits/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.thenewstribune.com/business/2009/11/20/laid-off-boeing-workers-eligible-for-extra-training-benefits/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 21:28:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Gillie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Aerospace]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Employment/Workplace]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Several thousand Boeing workers laid off since May 22, 2008, have been granted extra federal training and unemployment assistance benefits, the International Association of Machinists said today.
The union, Boeing's largest, filed a petition with the U.S. Department of Labor seeking benefits for Boeing workers under the Trade Adjustment Act.  That act provides extra assistance [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Expect more travelers, fuller planes for the holidays</title>
		<link>http://blog.thenewstribune.com/business/2009/11/20/expect-more-travelers-fuller-planes-for-the-holidays/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.thenewstribune.com/business/2009/11/20/expect-more-travelers-fuller-planes-for-the-holidays/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 20:45:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Gillie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General Business]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tourism]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Holiday travel numbers are expected to drop this season, but don't expect getting to where you're going will necessarily be any easier this year than last.
If you're traveling by air, for instance,  don't expect  to find open seats next to you on the plane.
Airline statistics show that planes are operating closer to capacity [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Boeing breaks ground for 787 plant in South Carolina</title>
		<link>http://blog.thenewstribune.com/business/2009/11/20/boeing-breaks-ground-for-787-plant-in-south-carolina/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:49:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Gillie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Boeing broke ground this morning in North Charleston, S.C., for a second assembly line for its 787 jetliner.
The assembly line will be the first outside the Puget Sound area for Boeing's commercial jets.
The company announced that North Charleston won the contest for the second line over Everett just three weeks ago. In establishing another assembly [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tourism bureau meets, offers annual awards</title>
		<link>http://blog.thenewstribune.com/business/2009/11/19/tourism-bureau-meets-offers-annual-awards/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:14:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>C.R. Roberts</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Amid a surf-n-turf lunch of chicken and salmon at the Courtyard by Marriott Hotel, the Tacoma Regional Convention + Visitor Bureau celebrated its 20th year Thursday by naming  the annual Tourism Celebrity Award winners.
• Presented by County Executive Pat McCarthy, the Community Unity Award went to Denise Dyer of the county’s Economic Development Division.
• [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Horizon Air adding new flights from Spokane to Sacramento, San Jose</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 17:20:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Gillie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Horizon Air, a regional carrier headquartered in SeaTac, will launch services to two California cities from Spokane next spring, the airline announced this week.
The new flights will serve Sacramento, the California capital, and San Jose.
One flight will serve Sacramento non-stop and continue onward to San Jose.  The other will serve San Jose and continue [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Boeing delivers first Philippine Airlines 777-300ER</title>
		<link>http://blog.thenewstribune.com/business/2009/11/19/boeing-delivers-first-philippine-airlines-777-300er/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 17:15:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Gillie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Boeing delivered Wednesday the first of five long-range 777-300ER to GE Capital Aviation Services and its leasing customer Philippine Airlines.
The twin-engine jet, packed with hurricane relief supplies was flown from Everett where it was built to Manilla.
The aircraft carried supplies to victims of Typhoon Ketsana from three non-profit agencies, AmeriCares, Humanitarian International Services Group and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Boeing CEO says workforce will continue shrinking in 2010</title>
		<link>http://blog.thenewstribune.com/business/2009/11/19/boeing-ceo-says-workforce-will-continue-shrinking-in-2010/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.thenewstribune.com/business/2009/11/19/boeing-ceo-says-workforce-will-continue-shrinking-in-2010/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 16:53:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Gillie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Boeing employment will continue downward through 2010, Boeing chief executive Jim McNerney told a Middle East business publication today.
The employment reduction is unlikely to match the 10,000-person payroll reduction goal Boeing set for this year, he said.
"We've talked about the 10,000 and then maybe so more," he told Arabian Business. "Not in the magnitude of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Air traffic computer outage has no effect on Sea-Tac depatures this morning</title>
		<link>http://blog.thenewstribune.com/business/2009/11/19/www-flightstats-com/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 16:33:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Gillie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It was business as usual -- maybe even business a little better than usual -- at Sea-Tac Airport this morning despite a nationwide Federal Aviation Administration computer glitch that blocked airlines from filing flight planes early today.
Portland's Flightstats.com reported no flight departure cancellations at Sea-Tac from 6 a.m. to 8 a.m. and rated the airport's [...]]]></description>
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