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FILE - This Jan. 1, 2008, file photo shows Ken Johnson, left, and an unidentified assistant cooking food on the hood of his car while tailgating at the Winter Classic at Ralph Wilson Stadium in Orchard Park, N.Y. No longer feeling welcome in the main parking lot, Ken Johnson is taking his popular NFL football tailgating party elsewhere after spending the past 14 years in the same spot. (AP Photo/David Duprey, File)
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Construction worker Randy Shreves begins building a new house in Springfield, Ill., on Monday, Sept. 13, 2010. Housing construction surged 10.5 percent in August, as applications for building permits rose. (AP Photo/Seth Perlman)
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Guadalupe Corral, 20, right, fills out a job application for a retail position with Guess by Marciano at the End of Summer Job Fair, a one-day event co-hosted at Citadel Outlets in partnership with the City of Commerce on Thursday, Sept. 16, 2010, in Commerce, Calif. (AP Photo)
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Ron Stotish, chief executive officer of AquaBounty, the company that applied with the Food and Drug Administration to market genetically modified salmon, speaks to reporters during a break at an FDA advisory committee hearing in Rockville, Md., Monday, Sept. 20, 2010. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)
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Robert B. Zoellick, president of the World Bank, addresses a summit on the Millennium Development Goals at United Nations headquarters on Monday, Sept. 20, 2010. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)
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A worker on the drilling floor is seen from the window of the drilling cage as the drilling pipe is removed on the Development Driller III, which drilled the relief well and pumped the cement to seal the Macondo well, the source of the Deepwater Horizon rig explosion and oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, on Saturday, Sept. 18, 2010. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)
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President Barack Obama, followed by Elizabeth Warren and Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, walks to the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, Friday, Sept. 17, 2010, to announce that Warren will head the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
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President Barack Obama, followed by Elizabeth Warren, center, and Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, walks of the Oval Office, to the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, Friday, Sept. 17, 2010, where he announced that Warren will head the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
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President Barack Obama, followed by Elizabeth Warren and Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, walks to the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, Friday, Sept. 17, 2010, to announce that Warren will head the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
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President Barack Obama, accompanied by Elizabeth Warren, right, and Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, left, announces that Warren will head the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, Friday, Sept. 17, 2010, during an event in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
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President Barack Obama, accompanied by Elizabeth Warren, right, and Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, left, announces that Warren will head the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, Friday, Sept. 17, 2010, during an event in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
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President Barack Obama shakes hands with Elizabeth Warren, right, as Secretary of Treasury Timothy Geithner left, looks on after announcing that Warren will head the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, Friday, Sept. 17, 2010, during an event in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
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President Barack Obama, followed by Elizabeth Warren, center, and Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, walks of the Oval Office, to the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, Friday, Sept. 17, 2010, where he announced that Warren will head the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
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This photo illustraion made available on Aug. 11, 2010 by United Airlines and Continental Airlines shows changes to the visual branding for the new global airline. Shareholders of United's parent company and Continental Airlines are voting on a deal that would create the world's biggest airline. Results of the voting will be announced Friday Sept. 17, 2010. (AP Photo/United Airlines, Continental Airlines, Tammy Bryngelson)
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Cars are covered in debris after a severe storm moved through the area Thursday, Sept. 16, 2010, in the Queens borough of New York. (AP Photo/Daniel P. Derella)
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**FILE** Treasury Secretary Timothy F. Geithner told the Senate banking committee in September that he would use "all the tools available" to balance trade practices. He warned about the "risk" of passing legislation designed to penalize China. (Associated Press)
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Associated Press South Korean protesters with portraits of North Korean strongman Kim Jong-il (right) and what is thought to be his third son, Kim Jong-un, shout slogans during a rally in Seoul in March 2009. There are no known verifiable photos of the younger Mr. Kim as an adult.
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Timothy Geithner, U.S. treasury secretary, arrives for a Senate Banking Committee hearing in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Thursday, Sept. 16, 2010. Geithner said China needs to allow a "significant, sustained" rise in its currency as lawmakers called for the U.S. to toughen its stance on the yuan. Photographer: Jay Mallin/Bloomberg
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Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner takes his seat on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Sept. 16, 2010, prior to testifying before the Senate Banking Committee hearing on the Treasury Department's report on international economic and exchange rate policies. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)
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Senator Christopher Dodd, left, a Democrat from Connecticut, talks with Senator Richard Shelby, a Republican from Alabama, during a Senate Banking Committee hearing with U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, Washington, D.C., U.S., on Thursday, Sept. 16, 2010. Geithner said China needs to allow a "significant, sustained" rise in its currency as lawmakers called for the U.S. to toughen its stance on the yuan. Photographer: Jay Mallin/Bloomberg