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Manual assembly from a Burmester CD player. Burmester Audiosysteme was founded in 1977 and has since been producing top-range high end products in their Berlin manufacture. Daniel Pilar/Special to The Washington Times

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Manual assembly of a motherboard with components of a cd player Burmester 102. Burmester Audiosysteme was founded in 1977 and has since been producing top-range high end products in their Berlin manufacture. Daniel Pilar/Special to The Washington Times

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CEO Dieter Burmester of Burmester Audiosysteme in the branch office. Burmester was founded in 1977 and has since been producing top-range high end products in their Berlin manufacture. Daniel Pilar/Special to The Washington Times

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Portrait of Uwe Ahrendt, CEO of the German watch manufacturer Nomos Glashutte, standing in the final inspection room inside the timepiece manufactory (the so called "Chronometrie") on Thursday, May 26, 2012. Before the watches will be dispatched, they are tested on watch-winders. Christian Burkert/Special to The Washington Times.

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** FILE ** In this March 13, 2012, file photo Sen. Jack Reed, D-R.I., joins students at a Capitol Hill news conference to announce the collection of more than 130,000 letters to Congress to prevent student loan interest rates from doubling this July. The Senate planned a Tuesday May 8, 2012, roll call on a plan, which would extend today's 3.4 percent interest rates on subsidized Stafford loans for another year. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta, File)

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A worker assembles tweeters for speakers at Burmester Audiosysteme in Berlin, which sells top-of-the-line sound systems starting at $4,000 and rising to $460,000. The company is designing exclusive surround-sound systems for Porsche. (Daniel Pilar/Special to The Washington Times)

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A worker assembles tweeters for speakers at Burmester Audiosysteme in Berlin, which sells top-of-the-line sound systems starting at $4,000 and rising to $460,000. The company is designing exclusive surround-sound systems for Porsche. (Daniel Pilar/Special to The Washington Times)

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Warren Buffett, chairman and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway, sings with University of Nebraska cheerleaders prior to the annual shareholders meeting in Omaha, Neb., Saturday, May 5, 2012. Berkshire Hathaway is holding it's annual shareholders meeting this weekend. (AP Photo/Dave Weaver)

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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, a social media wunderkind who turns 28 this month, reportedly will take Facebook public on the stock market May 18 in one of the most highly anticipated tech initial public offerings since Google went public in August 2004. Facebook's offering values the company at $76 billion to $95 billion, based on the expected number of Facebook shares after the IPO. (Associated Press)