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Pennies are shown in Ottawa on Thursday, March 29, 2012. The humble one-cent piece is set to disappear from Canadian pockets, a victim of inflation. (AP Photo/The Canadian Press, Sean Kilpatrick)
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**FILE** Laurie Hanson looks over clothing Feb. 28, 2012, at the Adorn clothing store in Montpelier, Vt. (Associated Press)
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** FILE ** In this March 28, 2012, file photo, Republican presidential candidate, former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum smiles at a bowling alley in La Crosse, Wis. Woe is Rick Santorum. The Republican presidential candidate complains that Mitt Romney and his allies are outspending him. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, File)
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Rigs belonging to PetroChina pump oil near the banks of a snow-covered lake in Daqing in northeastern China's Heilongjiang province. Exxon Mobil is pumping less oil than PetroChina, a company formed just 13 years ago by the Chinese government to better compete for the world's oil and natural gas. (Associated Press)
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President Obama speaks in the Rose Garden of the White House on March 29, 2012, to urge Congress to eliminate tax breaks for oil and gas companies. (Associated Press)
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Van Metre Homes is building 14 homes from its Marquis Custom Estate Collection on sites of 3 to 8 acres at Fox Knoll of Middleburg. The Avery model is base-priced from $729,990.
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"The Great Depression informed the Fed's actions and decisions in the recent crisis," Fed Chairman Ben S. Bernanke said at George Washington University, noting the Fed's multiple missteps during the 1930s in failing to stem the financial panics, bank runs and economic downspiral that created such desperate conditions. (Associated Press)
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Left to right: David Blackmore, Master Brand Ambassador for The Glenmorangie Company; Robin Naysmith, Scottish Government Counsellor, North America; Gavin Hewitt, Chief Executive of the Scotch Whisky Association, Dave Pickerell, Master Distiller of Mount Vernon; Dr. Bill Lumsden, Head of Distilling and Whisky Creation at the Glenmorangie Company; and Andy Cant, with Diageo toast together after corking their first barrel of a scotch style single malt whisky. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)
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Steve Bashore, Manager of Historic Trades at Mount Vernon, writes down identifying information on an oak barrel of scotch style single malt whisky. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)
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Mount Vernon Lead Historic Interpreter Peter Curtis tastes whiskey as comes out of a distiller. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)
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Eric Barton, an Historic Trade Interpreter with Mount Vernon, carries out plastic jugs to be washed after the Mount Vernon historic distillers produce a scotch style single malt whisky made using colonial style stills at George Washington's reconstructed distillery. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)
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Dr. Bill Lumsden, Head of Distilling and Whisky Creation at the Glenmorangie Company sips the scotch style single malt whiskey that he and two other master distillers from Scotland created using colonial style stills at George Washington's reconstructed distillery with the help of Mount Vernon's historic distillers, Mount Vernon, Va., Wednesday, March 28, 2012. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)
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Customers shop for laundry appliances at Pacific Sales Kitchen & Home Center at the Best Buy store in Glendale, Calif., on Monday, Feb. 27, 2012. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)
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Before the D.C. Council on Tuesday, (from left) Chief Financial Officer Natwar M. Gandhi, Mayor Vincent C. Gray and budget director Eric Goulet arrive to testify on the mayor's fiscal 2013 budget. Mr. Gray's budget proposal would close a $172 million gap through $102 million in cuts and $70 million in new revenue. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)
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Metropolitan Police Department Chief Cathy L. Lanier and Paul Quander, the District's deputy mayor for public safety, gave testimony Tuesday to the D.C. Council on Mayor Vincent C. Gray's budget proposal for fiscal year 2013. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)
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Phase 2 of the Dulles Metrorail project begins at the Wiehle Avenue station in Fairfax County. Funding for the project is emerging as a sticking point in Virginia's two-year, $85 billion spending plan. (The Washington Times)
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Delta Brogden pumps gas at a station in Atlanta earlier this month. The nationwide average for a gallon of gas reached $3.90 on Monday, which is now less than 10 cents away from last year's high. (Associated Press)
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Both sides agreed Monday that the intimate video made by former Sen. John Edwards' mistress, Rielle Hunter, should not be shown to jurors. (Associated Press)
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President Obama and Secretary of the Interior Kenneth L. Salazar exit Air Force One at the Roswell International Air Center in Roswell, N.M., last week. Over the weekend, Mr. Obama issued a release inviting industry input on an oil and gas lease sale in Alaska's Cook Inlet. (Associated Press)
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Thomas W. Horton, who was elevated from president to CEO of American Airlines parent AMR Corp. on a late-night phone call in November, says the company can't afford to move slowly in bankruptcy protection. (Associated Press)
