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** FILE ** A couple walk by Lexus models displayed at a Toyota Motor Corp. showroom in Tokyo on Monday, Nov. 5, 2012. (AP Photo/Koji Sasahara)

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Thorsten Heins, CEO of Research in Motion, which is changing its name to BlackBerry, introduces the BlackBerry 10 on Wednesday, Jan. 30, 2013, in New York. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)

Wayne LaPierre (right), executive vice president and CEO of the National Rifle Association, is sworn in with other panelists before giving testimony on gun control before the Senate Judiciary Committee in the Hart Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill in Washington on Wednesday, Jan. 30, 2013. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)

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**FILE** Natwar M. Gandhi, chief financial officer of the District of Columbia, responds to questions during an interview in Washington on April 9, 2012. (The Washington Times)

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Rep. Paul Ryan, chairman of the House Budget Committee, was leaned on by Speaker John A. Boehner to persuade GOP lawmakers to temporarily back off the spending cuts they had asked for in any increase to the debt ceiling. (Associated Press)

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Participants listen a panel session in the Congress Hall the last day of the 43rd Annual Meeting of the World Economic Forum, WEF, in Davos, Switzerland, Saturday, Jan. 26, 2013. (AP Photo/Keystone/Laurent Gillieron)

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Algerian foreign minister Mourad Medelci speaks during an interview with The Associated Press at the 43rd Annual Meeting of the World Economic Forum, WEF, in Davos, Switzerland, Friday, Jan. 25, 2013. (AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus)