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Mondays haven’t been kind to portfolios, whether big or small. Indeed, it is the only day of the week that the stock market is more likely to fall than to rise. The Dow Jones industrial average has been down 10 of the past 11 Mondays. And the two worst days in market history were Mondays. Mark Zifchak (left) and Johnathan Corpina, both of Meridian Equity Partners, work on the trading floor of the New York Stock Exchange on July 23, a Monday that saw the Dow Jones industrial average fall 101 points. (Associated Press)

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** FILE ** In this April 13, 2011, file photo, Republican Vice Presidential candidate, House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan, R-Wis., takes questions in reaction to President Obama's speech on a federal spending plan, during a news conference at the Capitol in Washington. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

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**FILE** Former Algerian foreign affairs minister Lakhdar Brahimi attends the Ambrosetti economic forum in Cernobbio, Lake Como, Italy, on Sept. 4, 2009. (Associated Press)

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associated press Chris Baker became the clear-cut backup at nose tackle after Chris Neild was lost for the season with a torn ACL. Baker came to training camp with the mandate that he weigh 331 pounds. He was subject to a fine for each pound over that amount.

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Lottery scratch-off tickets are for sale with other items at a Sunoco gas station and market in Lapeer, Mich. The business sold a single ticket that won Wednesday’s $337 million Powerball jackpot, the third-largest payoff in the game’s history. (Associated Press)

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Long distance runner and Olympic medal winner Lewis Tewanima (Hopi; 1879?-1969) after winning a marathon in New York City, May 6, 1911. (Courtesy of Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division)

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Duke Kahanamoku (Native Hawaiian) prepares to dive, 1920 Olympics, Antwerp, Belgium. (Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division)

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Afghans walk past by a house for rent in Kabul, Afghanistan. A real estate broker, Mir Ahmad Shah, said the market is the worst in his seven years of selling properties in the capital. No one wants to buy due to instability and the 2014 departure of NATO forces. (Associated Press)

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Major League Baseball Commissioner Bud Selig, second from left, joins members of a group approved to buy the San Diego Padres, from left, Ron Fowler, Peter Seidler and Kevin O'Malley after a meeting of baseball owners in Denver on Thursday, Aug. 16, 2012. Fowler, the chief executive of Liquid Investments, will become the controlling owner of the franchise if the purchase price of around $800 million is accepted by current Padres owner John Moores. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)

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**FILE** Chesapeake Energy Corporation owns a natural gas drilling site in Leroy Township, Pa. (Associated Press)

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**FILE** Boeing CEO James McNerney, Jr. attends the first-ever State Department Global Business Conference on Feb. 21, 2012, at the State Department in Washington. (Associated Press)