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** FILE ** Rex W. Tillerson is chairman and chief executive officer of Exxon Mobil Corp. (AP Photo/Mike Stone)

**FILE** A man looks at an iPad mini at an electronics store in Tokyo on Jan. 31, 2013. Japanese phone company Softbank, owned by billionaire Masayoshi Son said its net profit more than doubled in the October-December quarter from a year earlier, helped by strong sales of Apple's iPhone and iPads. (Associated Press)

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** FILE ** Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas speaks at the World Economic Forum on the Middle East and North Africa at the King Hussein Convention Center at the Dead Sea in Jordan on Sunday, May 26, 2013. (AP Photo/Jim Young, Pool)

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The housing market is heating up again in 20 top metropolitan areas, according to the Standard & Poor’s/Case-Shiller index. Relatively few homes have been built since the 2008 collapse. (Associated Press)

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** FILE ** Alan Krueger, Chairman of the White House Council of Economic Advisers, speaks to the media about middle class tax cuts and spending during a White House news briefing in Washington, Nov. 26, 2012. (Associated Press)

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My administration does not think much of the first or second amendments. (Illustration by Dana Summers of the Tribune Media Services)

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Full-page newspaper ads paid for by Dish Network, which wants to buy Sprint, liken the risks of a Sprint merger with Japanese company SoftBank to the 2006 effort by a company linked to the government of Dubai to run U.S. ports.

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Republican Sen. John McCain during a TV interview, at the World Economic Forum, held at the King Hussein Bin Talal Convention center, in Southern Shuneh, 34 miles (55 kilometers) southeast of Amman, Jordan, Saturday, May 25, 2013.(AP Photo/Mohammad Hannon)

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Palestinian chief negotiator, Saeb Erekat, speaks to The Associated Press at the World Economic Forum in Southern Shuneh, 34 miles (55 kilometers) southeast of Amman, Jordan, Saturday, May 26, 2013. (AP Photo/Mohammad Hannon) ** FILE **

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U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry speaks with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, right, as he sits next to Israeli president Shimon Peres at the World Economic Forum on the Middle East and North Africa at the King Hussein Convention Centre, at the Dead Sea May 26, 2013. (AP Photo/Jim Young, Pool)