Business_Finance

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This photo combination shows logos for AT&T (left) and Deutsche Telekom AG. AT&T Inc. on Sunday, March 20, 2011, said it will buy T-Mobile USA from Deutsche Telekom in a cash-and-stock deal valued at $39 billion, becoming the largest cellphone company in the U.S. (AP Photo)

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FILE - This Jan. 25, 2011, file photo shows Ray Anderson, the NFL league's chief disciplinarian, addressess the media during a Pro Bowl NFL football news conference at the Hilton Hawaiian Village, in Honolulu. The NFL will be more aggressive in suspending players next season for illegal hits, and also could make changes to instant replay and kickoffs. Anderson says repeat offenders or players committing flagrant illegal hits will have a much greater chance of being suspended during the 2011 season. (AP Photo/Eugene Tanner, File)

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Illustration: Free trade agreements by Linas Garsys for The Washington Times

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** FILE ** In this file photo taken March 9, 2011, a woman returns to her car after filling up at a gas station advertising regular gasoline on sale for $4.32 in San Diego. Americans paid more for food and energy in February, but outside those volatile categories inflation was tame. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull, file)

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** FILE ** A customer looks at fresh vegetables at a Kroger Co. supermarket in Cincinnati on Monday, March 1, 2011. (AP Photo/Al Behrman)

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** FILE** Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) Chair Sheila Bair testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Feb. 17, 2011, before the Senate Banking Committee hearing on the Dodd-Frank law, the sweeping financial reforms passed six months ago to prevent a repeat of the economic crisis. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

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US astronaut Scott Kelly is seen inside of Russian Soyuz TMA-01M spacecraft shortly after their landing near the town of Arkalyk in northern Kazakhstan, Wednesday, March 16, 2011. NASA astronaut Scott Kelly and two Russian cosmonauts landed safely Wednesday in the snowy expanses of central Kazakhstan after spending a five-month stint on the International Space Station.(AP Photo/Sergei Remezov, Pool)

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The City Hall in Freeport, Kan., a town of just five people, is located in an old bank building. (Associated Press)

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German Chancellor Angela Merkel speaks during a joint news conference with Vice Chancellor Guido Westerwelle in Berlin on Monday, March 14, 2011, at which the government said it is suspending for three months a decision to extend the life of its nuclear power plants. (AP Photo/Michael Sohn)

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A man checks out a stock price board in Tokyo on Monday as the stock market plunged on its first business day after an earthquake and tsunami laid waste to cities along Japan's northeast coast. (Associated Press)

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President Obama walks off after signing his name during a visit to a music classroom at Kenmore Middle School in Arlington, Va., on Monday. The students had done a presentation on jazz legend Duke Ellington. Mr. Obama called for more education spending. (Associated Press)

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A man reacts while looking at a stock price board in Tokyo on Monday, March 14, 2011, as the Tokyo stock market plunged on its first business day after an earthquake and tsunami of epic proportions laid waste to cities along Japan's northeast coast. Only stock prices of construction and housing business showed upward trend (in red digits). (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)

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"We need to consider moving toward the Strategic Petroleum Reserve to put the oil we have … into the economy," said Sen. Richard J. Durbin. (Associated Press)

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Allegations of improprieties have tripped up D.C. Mayor Vincent C. Gray in only the third month of his term. "Now we got to spend all this money on investigations. We're always spending on the wrong things," said Raymond Washington, a Ward 8 resident. (Associated Press)

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Hotel employees squat down in horror at the hotel's entrance in Tokyo after a strong earthquake hit Japan Friday, March 11, 2011. (AP Photo/Itsuo Inouye)

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In this photo from March 8, 2011, shoppers cross the street in San Francisco. Retail sales post biggest gain in 4 months as shoppers spend more on cars, clothing and gas. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)

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Rep. Peter T. King, New York Republican and chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, confers Thursday with an aide during a hearing, "The Extent of Radicalization in the American Muslim Community and that Community's Response." He said it was the first in a series of such hearings. (Drew Angerer/The Washington Times)

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Amina Shah, a microfinance beneficiary, stitches a shirt as she waits for customers at her shop in a slum in Mumbai. The stories of the poor being empowered by affordable credit have been replaced by headlines about overextended borrowers being driven to suicide. Some lenders are contributing to a cycle of indebtedness and abuse, just like the loan sharks they were to replace. (Associated Press)

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Bangladeshi Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus arrives at High Court in Dhaka recently to try to reverse a Bangladesh government order dismissing him as the head of the microfinance bank he founded. He pioneered the concept of reducing poverty by making tiny loans to the poor. (Associated Press)

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** FILE ** Chris Liddell, then the vice chairman and CFO of General Motors, attends the New York International Auto Show in New York in March 2010. The company said on Thursday, March 10, 2011, that Mr. Liddell will step down April 1. (AP Photo/General Motors Co., Steve Fecht)