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** FILE ** In this Friday, Feb. 20, 2009, file photo, President Barack Obama listens as Vice President Joe Biden speaks in the East Room of the White House. Asked to name the one step they'd push most urgently if they were the newly re-elected President Barack Obama, a dozen leading economists advise President Barack Obama to sidestep the "fiscal cliff" during his second term of office. (AP Photo/Ron Edmonds, File)
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Travis Kalanick, CEO of the sedan service Uber, opposed a D.C. proposal for minimum fares for on-demand companies such as his. (Barbara L. Salisbury/The Washington Times)
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Sen. Tom Coburn released a report Thursday arguing that there are billions of dollars to be cut from the Pentagon by eliminating spending or shifting services to civilian agencies. (Associated Press)
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House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, followed by fellow California Democrat Rep. Grace Napolitano, emerges from a closed caucus meeting Wednesday as lawmakers try to avoid a “fiscal cliff.” (Associated Press)
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Forward Trevor Booker is averaging 8.1 points and 5.0 rebounds in the Wizards' 0-7 start. (Associated Press)
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Protesters march past a closed shop during a union demonstration Wednesday in Thessaloniki, Greece. Officials announced Europe has been in the second leg of a double-dip recession since the fourth quarter of last year. The overall European unemployment rate is at a record-high 11.6 percent, and it is hovering around 25 percent in Greece and Spain. (Associated Press)
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Illustration Natural Gas by John Camejo for The Washington Times
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The Tsukiji fish market in Tokyo is the biggest such market in the world, and tourists willing to line up well before dawn can view its rapid-fire auctions, where fish of all kinds are sold. (Associated Press)
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The Tsukiji fish market in Tokyo is the biggest fish market in the world, and tourists willing to line up well before dawn can view the rapid-fire auctions where the giant fish are sold. (AP Photo/Fritz Faerber)
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Traders work on the floor at the New York Stock Exchange, Thursday, Nov. 15, 2012. Stock indexes are inching higher in early trading Thursday after U.S. retail giants Wal-Mart and Target turned in mixed earnings reports. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)
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BP PLC CEO Tony Hayward asks members of the media to step back as he walks along Fourchon Beach in Port Fourchon, La., Monday, May 24, 2010. Hayward visited the beach to observe efforts to clean oil that washed ashore from last month's Deepwater Horizon oil rig explosion in the Gulf of Mexico. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)
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K.Hovnanian Homes is building 13 homes at the Estates at Evergreen Reserve in Ashburn, Va. The Tara model is base-priced from $1,399,990.
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New General Secretary of Communist Party of China Xi Jinping's press conference is telecast live on a mall screen, center, in Beijing, China, Thursday Nov. 15, 2012. Xi became leader of China on Thursday, securing the Communist Party's top spot and oversight of the military in a political transition upset by scandals that have added fuel to public demands for change as the country faces slower economic growth. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)
