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A Federal Reserve police officer stands in front of the Federal Reserve Building Wednesday, Oct. 17, 2012, in New York. Federal authorities on Wednesday arrested a Bangladeshi man they said was plotting to blow up the Federal Reserve building in Manhattan, just blocks from the World Trade Center site. Quazi Mohammad Rezwanul Ahsan Nafis, 21, was arrested in a sting operation Wednesday morning after he parked a van filled with what he believed were explosives outside the building and tried to detonate it in a suicide mission, authorities said. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II)

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Pedestrians pass the Federal Reserve Building Wednesday, Oct. 17, 2012, in New York. Federal authorities on Wednesday arrested a Bangladeshi man they said was plotting to blow up the Federal Reserve building in Manhattan, just blocks from the World Trade Center site. Quazi Mohammad Rezwanul Ahsan Nafis, 21, was arrested in a sting operation Wednesday morning after he parked a van filled with what he believed were explosives outside the building and tried to detonate it in a suicide mission, authorities said. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II)

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Law enforcement officials remove boxes of potential evidence from the New York home where Quazi Mohammad Rezwanul Ahsan Nafis was staying, Wednesday, Oct. 17, 2012. Nafis was arrested in an FBI sting operation earlier in the day after attempting to blow up a fake car bomb outside the Federal Reserve building in Manhattan, authorities said. (AP Photo/Newsday, Howard Schnapp) NYC OUT; NO SALES

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A protestor dramatizes his college loan debt in Washington in 2011. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)

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The runway at Grundy Municipal Airport is too short to comply with insurance standards for corporate jets, but federal regulators have refused to allow for an expansion without a mining permit because of the coal deposits below the land. (Debra McCown/Special to The Washington Times)

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**FILE** The building of the Federal Reserve Bank in downtown Manhattan is seen here on Aug. 17, 2007. (Associated Press)

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This image provided by Romney For President, Inc. shows a still frame made from a video ad entitled "12 Million Jobs." One analysis estimates the campaigns and independent groups will have spent about $1.1 billion on television advertising this year, with $750 million already allocated in states likely to determine the outcome of the presidential contest. Romney primarily is running a spot in which he promises to boost the economy through manufacturing, energy and cracking down on China. (Associated Press)

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In this Feb. 23, 2007, file photo, President Bush, center, listens to Dave Vieau, President and CEO of A123 Systems, right, as he is shown a Toyota Prius plug-in hybrid car utilizing a lithium power battery during a demonstration of alternative fuel automobiles on the South Lawn of the White House. Short of cash and hurting from slow sales of electric cars, battery maker A123 Systems Inc. sent its U.S. operations into bankruptcy protection on Tuesday, Oct. 16, 2012, and quickly sold its automotive assets. The filing is likely to stoke the debate in Washington over the Obama administrationÃs funding of alternative energy companies. In 2009, A123 got a $249 million Department of Energy grant to help it build U.S. factories. Republicans have accused Obama of wasting stimulus money on the companies after the failure of politically connected and now-bankrupt solar power company Solyndra LLC, which left taxpayers on the hook for $528 million. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File)

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In this Aug. 9, 2007, photo, a man walks from the A123 Systems Inc., in Watertown, Mass. After years of struggling with weak sales and mounting losses, the electric-car battery maker filed for bankruptcy protection and reached a deal to sell its automotive assets, Tuesday, Oct. 16, 2012. (AP Photo/Boston Herald, David Goldman)

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In this Aug. 9, 2007, photo, development technician Ronnie Wilkins reaches for some development powder stored in a glove box used in lithium car batteries A123 Systems Inc. headquarters in Watertown, Mass. After years of struggling with weak sales and mounting losses, the electric-car battery maker filed for bankruptcy protection and reached a deal to sell its automotive assets Tuesday, Oct. 16, 2012. (AP Photo/Boston Herald, David Goldman)

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This Thursday, Aug. 6, 2009, file photo, shows A123 Systems Inc.'s high power Nanophospate Lithium Ion Cell for Hybrid Electric Vehicles batteries in Livonia, Mich. Short of cash and hurting from slow sales of electric cars, battery maker A123 Systems Inc. sent its U.S. operations into bankruptcy protection on Tuesday, Oct. 16, 2012, and quickly sold its automotive assets. The Chapter 11 filing in Delaware came one day after A123 warned that it likely would miss some debt payments and could be headed for court-supervised restructuring. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya, File)

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In this April 30, 2010, file photo, from right, A123 Systems, President and Chief Executive Officer David Vieau, A123 Systems electrical engineer James Fenton and A123 Systems design engineer Antonio Biundo, stand next to President Barack Obama, as he speaks in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington. Short of cash and hurting from slow sales of electric cars, battery maker A123 Systems Inc. sent its U.S. operations into bankruptcy protection on Tuesday, Oct. 16, 2012, and quickly sold its automotive assets. The filing is likely to stoke the debate in Washington over the Obama administrationÃs funding of alternative energy companies. In 2009, A123 got a $249 million Department of Energy grant to help it build U.S. factories. Republicans have accused Obama of wasting stimulus money on the companies after the failure of politically connected and now-bankrupt solar power company Solyndra LLC, which left taxpayers on the hook for $528 million. (AP Photo/Haraz N. Ghanbari, File)

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“Most people I talk to are convinced that our automated traffic enforcement cameras are just about raising revenue,” said Tommy Wells, Ward 6 Democrat and one of three council members who introduced the bill to lower traffic fines. (The Washington Times)

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From right, A123 Systems Inc. Chief Executive Officer David Vieau, A123 electrical engineer James Fenton and company design engineer Antonio Biundo listen to President Obama at the White House on April 30, 2010. Short of cash and hurting from slow sales of electric cars, A123 filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on Tuesday. The bankruptcy filing is likely to stoke the debate in Washington over the Obama administration’s funding of numerous alternative-energy ventures. (Associated Press)