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** FILE ** Les Hinton, then chief executive officer of Dow Jones & Co., is pictured in 2008 in his New York office. (Associated Press, File)

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**FILE** Rebekah Brooks, chief executive of News International, is driven away from offices of News International in London, on July 7, 2011. (Associated Press)

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** FILE ** Media baron Rupert Murdoch and Rebekah Brooks, then News International chief executive, are pictured on Sunday, July 10, 2011. Ms. Brooks resigned from the company on Friday. (AP Photo/ Ian Nicholson/PA)

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** FILE ** Borders Group teetered on the brink of liquidation Thursday, July 14, 2011, after an offer from a private-equity investor disintegrated. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio, file)

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Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, July 14, 2011, before the Senate Banking Committee to deliver the semiannual Monetary Policy Report. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

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News Corp. Chairman Rupert Murdoch arrives at his residence in central London on Wednesday, July 13, 2011. (AP Photo/Sang Tan)

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ASSOCIATED PRESS News Corp. Chairman Rupert Murdoch arrives home in London on Wednesday, the day it was announced that his company dropped its bid to buy controlling interest in British Sky Broadcasting (BSkyB).

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Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke prepares to testify before the House Financial Services Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington on Wednesday, July 13, 2011. In his semiannual report to the panel, Mr. Bernanke said the Fed would provide additional stimulus to the economy if the current lull persists. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

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Jack Gerard, president and CEO of the American Petroleum Institute, told The Washington Times on Tuesday that oil and natural gas companies could create millions more jobs if allowed to drill domestically. Another plus would be the generation of billions of tax dollars, he said. (Barbara L. Salisbury/The Washington Times)

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Under a new pricing policy, Netflix customers will have to buy separate plans if they want to rent DVDs by mail and watch video on the Internet. Subscribers will be paying as much as 60 percent more as a result. (Associated Press)

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** FILE ** A group of committed AIDS activists and advocates spearheaded by AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF) protested Gilead Sciences outside its Foster City headquarters earlier today over Gilead's pricing and policies on its HIV/AIDS medications. (Photo: Business Wire)

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D.C. Mayor Vincent C. Gray has withdrawn a security contract with the District, currently held by U.S. Security Associates, citing D.C. Council concerns about employment practices. (Rod Lamkey Jr./The Washington Times)

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** FILE ** Craig Huey, the tea-party-backed Republican candidate in a special election for a U.S. House seat, talks with staff at Creative Direct Marketing Group in Torrance, Calif., in May 2011. (AP Photo/The Daily Breeze, Steve McCrank)

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ASSOCIATED PRESS 'GREAT MOMENT': Treasury Secretary Timothy F. Geithner said on CBS' "Face the Nation" that the administration wants "the biggest deal possible" on debt reduction.

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Rupert Murdoch, chairman of News Corp., shown with chief executive Rebekah Brooks, has traveled to London in the wake of the phone-hacking scandal that has shaken his media empire. A pending deal to acquire full control of British Sky Broadcasting is threatened. (Associated Press)

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"That's ironic and surprising. It's less expensive to live in the suburbs, but maybe the economy is pushing people out there. We've got to figure out if there's a reason for that or not." Becca Goodstein, Adams Morgan, sales

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News Corp. CEO Rupert Murdoch reads the last edition of Britain's News of the World tabloid as he arrives at the offices of his U.K. newspaper division in this image taken from television on Sunday, July 10, 2011. Mr. Murdoch arrived in Britain to face the growing phone-hacking scandal that prompted the paper's closure. (AP Photo/Pool)

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**FILE** In this photo from June 27, 2011, traders work on the floor at the New York Stock Exchange in New York. (Associated Press)

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In this photo taken on June 9, 2011, a South Korean client of the suspended Busan Savings Bank shouts slogans after the clients watched a trial for the bank's corruption at Seoul Central District Court in Seoul. (Associated Press)

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Among the South Korean executives who have be involved in corrupt business practices are Hyundai Motor Chairman Chung Mong-Koo (center). Mr. Chung was found guilty of embezzlement, but a court suspended his sentence because he was deemed "too important to serve time." (Associated Press)