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A job hunter fills out an employment application at the Fort Lauderdale Career Fair in Dania Beach, Fla., on Friday, Nov. 30, 2012. The U.S. economy added a solid 146,000 jobs in November, and the unemployment rate fell to 7.7 percent, the lowest since December 2008, the Labor Department announced. (AP Photo/J Pat Carter)

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An advertisement in the classified section of the Boston Herald newspaper calls attention to possible employment opportunities in a Tuesday, Dec. 11, 2012, photo taken in Walpole, Mass. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)

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Job seekers join a line of hundreds of people at a job fair sponsored by Monster.com in New York on March 5, 2009. The Federal Reserve projects the unemployment rate will stay elevated until late 2015, suggesting it will keep short-term interest rates low for the next three years. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)

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Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke gestures as he speaks during a news conference at the Federal Reserve Board in Washington on Wednesday, Dec. 12, 2012, following the Federal Open Market Committee meeting. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

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South Korean protesters burn an effigy of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un during a rally in Seoul on Dec. 13, 2012, denouncing North Korea's rocket launch. (Associated Press)

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A South Korean man reads a newspaper Dec. 13, 2012, on a subway train in Seoul. The newspaper's headline reports North Korea's successful rocket launch the previous day, defying international warnings as the regime of Kim Jong Un took a big step forward in its quest to develop a nuclear missile. The headline reads "Kim Jung Un's gambling, Obama to aim." (Associated Press)

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South Korean housewives shout slogans during a Dec. 13, 2012, rally in Seoul denouncing North Korea's rocket launch. North Korea successfully fired a long-range rocket the previous day, defying international warnings as the regime of Kim Jong Un took a big step forward in its quest to develop a nuclear missile. The letters read "Denounce North Korea's rocket launch and beat Kim Joung Un." (Associated Press)

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This image released by ABC7/WJLA-TV and News Channel 8, shows Joe Allbritton, founder of Allbrittion Communications. Allbritton, who became one of Washington's most influential men by building media and banking empires, died at the age of 87, on Wednesday, Dec. 12, 2012, at a hospital in Houston, where he lived. His holdings include eight television stations, including WJLA, the ABC affiliate in Washington whose call letters bear his initials. (AP Photo/ABC7/WJLA-TV and News Channel 8)

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Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke speaks Dec. 12, 2012, during a news conference at the Federal Reserve Board in Washington following the Federal Open Market Committee meeting. (Associated Press)

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**FILE** President Obama speaks Dec. 5, 2012, about the fiscal cliff at the Business Roundtable, an association of chief executive officers, in Washington. (Associated Press)

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House Speaker John Boehner, Ohio Republican, arrives Dec. 12, 2012, for a closed-door meeting with the GOP caucus on Capitol Hill in Washington. Boehner and the other House Republican leaders are calling for President Obama to come up with plan they can accept for spending cuts and tax revenue to avoid the so-called "fiscal cliff" of automatic tax hikes and budget reductions. (Associated Press)