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A boot hangs from a highway sign exit for downtown Steubenville, Ohio, Saturday, October 27, 2012. Once a productive steel town, Steubenville, Ohio's population has contracted faster than anywhere else in the country between 1980 and 2000 as their steel plants shut down. The area has seen a drop in unemployment in recent years due in part to the prospects of natural gas but the city still has a long way to go with unemployment figures higher then the the rest of the state and the country. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)

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**FILE** New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg talks to traders at the New York Stock Exchange on Oct. 31, 2012. (Associated Press)

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A cab driver pushes his taxi cab forward in a line for gasoline in the Brooklyn borough of New York, Friday, Nov. 2, 2012. In parts of New York and New Jersey, drivers face another day of lining up for hours at gas stations struggling to stay supplied. Superstorm Sandy damaged ports that accept fuel tankers and flooded underground equipment that sends fuel through pipelines. Without power, fuel terminals can't pump gasoline onto tanker trucks, and gas stations can't pump fuel into customers' cars. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

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Mohammad Ullah fills up his gypsy cab from a gas container while others wait on a line in the Brooklyn borough of New York, Friday, Nov. 2, 2012. In parts of New York and New Jersey, drivers face another day of lining up for hours at gas stations struggling to stay supplied. Superstorm Sandy damaged ports that accept fuel tankers and flooded underground equipment that sends fuel through pipelines. Without power, fuel terminals can't pump gasoline onto tanker trucks, and gas stations can't pump fuel into customers' cars. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

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Customers form a queue to fill their gasoline canisters, Wednesday, Oct. 31, 2012, in the Staten Island borough of New York. Sandy, the storm that made landfall Monday, caused multiple fatalities, halted mass transit and cut power to more than 6 million homes and businesses.(AP Photo/ John Minchillo)

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Rep. Andy Harris, Maryland Republican, decries what he calls “the usual environmentalist overreaction” to hydraulic fracturing as a means of drilling for natural gas, and says that “will unfortunately cost Maryland.” (Barbara L. Salisbury/The Washington Times)

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Nearly a third of U.S. homeowners have been stuck with houses worth less than they paid and ended up over their heads in debt with mortgages that borrowers often could not refinance because they had no equity. Studies show that recessions resulting from major financial collapses, such as the monumental housing bust and banking crisis of October 2008, usually have slow and difficult recoveries.

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A yellow crane sorts out the rubble of the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami at a collection site in northeastern Japan. Japan’s accounting of its budget for reconstruction from the disasters is crammed with spending on unrelated projects. (Associated Press)

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A retailer in Philadelphia offers a 30 percent discount on Wednesday, Oct. 17, 2012. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

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In this Tuesday Sept. 25, 2012 file photo a coffee shop owner tells journalists that he has had an 80 percent drop in his business, in Athens. To the casual visitor, all might appear well in Athens. But scratch the surface and you find a society in freefall, ripped apart by the most vicious financial crisis the country has seen in half a century.(AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)

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Protesters stand in front of a banner reading "Workers United never Defeated" during an anti-austerity protest by Greek labor unions in Athens, on Wednesday Oct. 31 2012. Greece's government on Wednesday outlined the new austerity measures it intends to take over the next two years, a series of painful spending cuts and tax hikes that its international bailout creditors are demanding in exchange for rescue loans. (AP Photo/Kostas Tsironis)

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In this Oct. 26, 2011, photo, the 105-story Ryugyong Hotel towers above Pyongyang, North Korea. International hotel operator Kempinski AG said on Thursday, Nov. 1, 2012, that it will manage the pyramid-shaped hotel, which is expected to open next year with shops, offices, ballrooms, restaurants and 150 rooms. (AP Photo/Greg Baker)

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In this April 1, 2012, photo, the sun is reflected from the top of the 105-story Ryugyong Hotel, which remains under construction in Pyongyang, North Korea. International hotel operator Kempinski AG said on Thursday, Nov. 1, 2012, that it will manage the pyramid-shaped hotel, which is expected to open next year with shops, offices, ballrooms, restaurants and 150 rooms. (AP Photo/David Guttenfelder)

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A North Korean woman walks past the construction site of the 105-story Ryugyong Hotel in Pyongyang, the North Korean capital, on Aug. 22, 1990. Work on the 3,000-room pyramidal building, begun almost a decade earlier, was expected to be completed in 1992 after financial problems. (AP Photo/Vincent Yu)

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The home at 1011 N. Washington St. at the tip of Old Town Alexandria is on the market for $1,995,000. The single-family home, which is part of the Liberty Row condominium development, has 6,900 square feet.