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The policy change will be carried out over 15 years, with the retirement age for men raised to 63 years, and for women to 55 or 58 years depending on their jobs. The current retirement age is 60 for men and 50 for women in blue-collar jobs and 55 for women doing white-collar work.

As long as the strike lasts, it will deprive the company of much-needed cash it gets from delivering new planes to airlines. That will be another challenge for new Boeing CEO Kelly Ortberg, who six weeks ago was given the job of turning around a company that has lost more than $25 billion in the last six years and fallen behind European rival Airbus.

Grant is lead gift in St. Luke’s $4M capital campaign

Revised estimates from the U.S. Department of Agriculture predict Iowa corn yields of 212 bushels per acre and soybean yields of 63.

A group that opposes the 5-million-gallon manure processing facility near Ridgeway worries it will result in larger dairy herds.

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The Gazette’s Business Notes is a compendium of the week’s promotions, new hires, certifications, added business lines and business events, among other items, in Cedar Rapids, Iowa City and the rest of the Corridor.

Employers can adopt evenhanded rules