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General Motors CEO Dan Akerson, bottom right, stands among traders at the post where GM stock is traded at the New York Stock Exchange in New York, Thursday, Nov. 18, 2010. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)
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General Motors Co. CEO Dan Akerson, right, and other dignitaries celebrate after ringing the opening bell at the New York Stock Exchange in New York, Thursday, Nov. 18, 2010. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)
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Traders gather near the post where General Motors Co. stock trades at the New York Stock Exchange, Thursday, Nov. 18, 2010. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)
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General Motors Co. CEO Daniel Akerson sits in the driver's seat of a 2011 Chevrolet Camaro in front of the New York Stock Exchange following GM's initial public offering, Thursday, Nov. 18, 2010 in New York. Duncan Niederauer, CEO of NYSE Euronext, is seated at right. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)
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General Motors CEO Daniel Akerson sits in the driver's seat of a 2011 Chevrolet Camaro in front of the New York Stock Exchange following GM's initial public offering, Thursday, Nov. 18, 2010, in New York. Duncan Niederauer, CEO of NYSE Euronext, is seated at right. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)
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A banner displaying the name of General Motors covers the New York Stock Exchange in New York, Thursday, Nov. 18, 2010. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)
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Joint Chiefs Vice Chairman Gen. James Cartwright outlines the Defense Department's fiscal year 2010 budget request during a news conference at the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia, on April 6, 2009. (UPI Photo/Roger L. Wollenberg)
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In this Nov. 10, 2010, file photo, Four Loko alcoholic energy drinks are seen in the cooler of a convenience store, in Seattle. The Food and Drug Administration is expected to announce a virtual ban of alcoholic energy drinks Wednesday, Nov. 17, 2010, even as a leading manufacturer is pulling its products off the market. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson, file)
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Peter Tuchman works on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, Tuesday, Oct. 19, 2010, in New York. The Dow Jones industrial average fell below 11,000 for the first time in nearly a month Tuesday, Nov. 16, 2010, as worries mounted about inflation in Asia and as European leaders met to discuss a bailout of Ireland. (AP Photo/Henny Ray Abrams)
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In this Feb. 17, 2009, file photo, shoppers leave a Wal-Mart in Danvers, Mass. Wal-Mart Stores Inc. is reporting a 9.3 percent increase in third-quarter net income Tuesday, Nov. 16, 2010, as the world's largest retailer benefits from cost controls and a robust international business. (AP Photo/Lisa Poole, File)
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** FILE ** The world headquarters of General Motors Co. in Detroit are pictured in 2009. (Associated Press)
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In this Sept. 22, 2010 photo, Intel Corp. CEO Paul Otellini smiles at a conference in San Francisco. In a statement Friday, Nov. 12, 2010, Otellini said the company "remains on track to have our best year ever." (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma)
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Associated Press Rep. Michele Bachmann, Minnesota Republican, will be among those rallying on the Capitol grounds at noon Monday to inveigh against excess spending by the lame-duck Congress.
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ASSOCIATED PRESS PHOTOGRAPHS Peyote dealer Mauro Morales inspects peyote buttons in Rio Grande City, Texas. Mr. Morales has a shed full of peyote behind his house and a sign in his front yard identifying him as a legal distributor of the hallucinogen to any would-be customers who pass by. He is one of only three "peyoteros," who are Texans licensed to sell peyote.
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**FILE** Sen. Tom Carper, Delaware Democrat, talks Sept. 30, 2009, to reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington. (Associated Press)
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FILE - In this Jan. 19, 2010 file photo, the logo above the entrance to Viacom's headquarters is shown, in New York. Viacom reports its earnings tumbled in the third quarter Thursday, Nov. 11, 2010, because of results from a division that the media company led by Sumner Redstone plans to sell.(AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, file)
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Google workers walk on the company's Mountain View, Calif. campus Wednesday, Nov. 10, 2010. Google Inc. is giving all 23,300 of its employees 10 percent raises next year and shifting part of worker's annual bonuses into their regular paychecks, according to an internal memo sent Tuesday by Google CEO Eric Schmidt. Those bonuses won't count toward the 10 percent. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma)
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FILE - In this Aug. 11, 2010 file photo, a Chinese worker mans a production line at the factory of Lenovo Electronic Technology Co., Ltd. in Shanghai. Lenovo Group, the world's fourth-largest personal computer maker, said Wednesday, Nov. 10, 2010, that its latest quarterly profit rose 45 percent on strong sales in China and other emerging markets. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko, File)
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President Obama meets with German Chancellor Angela Merkel on the sidelines of the G-20 summit Thursday in Seoul. She rejected a U.S. proposal to try to cap global trade imbalances. "To set political limits on trade surpluses and deficits is neither economically justified nor politically appropriate," she told the G-20 business summit. (Associated Press)
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Rep. Ike Skelton, Missouri Democrat, is worried about a chasm developing between the U.S. military and the public after he leaves Congress. (Associated Press)
