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**FILE** George Osborne, Britain's Chancellor of the Exchequer, talks prior to the launch of the Economic Survey of the United Kingdom, by Angel Gurria, Secretary-General of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), at the Treasury in central London on Feb. 6, 2013. (Associated Press)

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Under a new NHL realignment proposal reported by CBC, the Capitals and Rangers would play in the same division beginning in 2013-14. (Associated Press)

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**FILE** A trader works Feb. 21, 2013, on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. (Associated Press)

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associated press U.S. wine exports — 90 percent of which originate from California — have managed to do well during the global economic downturn because of rising demand, improved marketing and trade agreements with new markets.

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President Obama and his administration are pressuring Republicans to cancel the sequester cuts and replace them with tax increases and different spending cuts. (Associated Press)

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In this Wednesday, Feb. 20, 2013, photo, a young vendor waits for clients alongside woven reed mats of the type purchased by fleeing Islamists, apparently to camouflage their vehicles, in Timbuktu, Mali. (AP Photo/Rukmini Callimachi)

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Ben & Jerry's wants customers to eat their ice cream, and stamp campaign finance reform slogans on money. (Ben & Jerry's)

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Rose Gottemoeller, acting undersecretary of state for arms control and international security, was in Moscow last week for talks that included discussion of proposed new arms reductions. (ASSOCIATED PRESS)

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**FILE** Pentagon Comptroller Robert F. Hale listens as Secretary of Defense Robert Gates and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Adm. Michael Mullen testify regarding the Department of Defense fiscal 2012 budget request before the Senate Appropriations Committee Subcommittee on Defense on Capitol Hill in Washington on June 15, 2011. (Associated Press)