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FILE - In this Jan. 16, 2010, file photo, Cleveland Cavaliers' Shaquille O'Neal dunks the ball against the Los Angeles Clippers during an NBA basketball game in Los Angeles. The Boston Celtics have signed O'Neal. The team announced Wednesday, Aug. 4, 2010, that it had signed the 15-time NBA All-Star, who had been a free agent after spending last season with the Cavaliers. (AP Photo/Jeff Lewis, File)

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Associated Press U.S. Rep. Carolyn Cheeks Kilpatrick, Michigan Democrat, leaves after delivering her concession speech Wednesday morning. Mrs. Cheeks Kilpatrick lost her bid for an eighth term on Tuesday, becoming the sixth incumbent to lose a bid so far this year.

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FILE - In this Jan. 16, 2010, file photo, Cleveland Cavaliers' Shaquille O'Neal dunks the ball against the Los Angeles Clippers during an NBA basketball game in Los Angeles. The Boston Celtics have signed O'Neal. The team announced Wednesday, Aug. 4, 2010, that it had signed the 15-time NBA All-Star, who had been a free agent after spending last season with the Cavaliers. (AP Photo/Jeff Lewis, File)

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FILE - In this Oct. 28, 2009 file photo, Qwest employee Scott Naylin prepares to work on underground cables in Portland, Ore. Qwest Communications International Inc., which has agreed to be acquired by a smaller phone company, on Wednesday, Aug. 4, 2010, said its second-quarter earnings fell 26 percent as customers continued to cancel landlines, and it signed up few new broadband customers. (AP Photo/Don Ryan, file)

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A receptionist sits in the lobby of Toyota Motor Corp.'s Tokyo head office Wednesday, Aug. 4, 2010. The world's biggest automaker reported a quarterly profit of $2.2 billion, reversing from red ink a year earlier as global car sales recovered and raised its full year earnings forecast. (AP Photo/Itsuo Inouye)

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A customer shops in late July at an Aeropostale store in Paramus, N.J., where some items are marked down 50 percent. (AP Photo/Mel Evans)

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SLASHING COSTS: Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates is looking for ways to save money. (Associated Press)

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Mike Lazaridis, president and Co-Chief Executive Officer of Research In Motion, talks about his company's new BlackBerry Torch, in New York, Tuesday, Aug. 3, 2010. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)

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Ralph de la Vega, president and CEO-AT&T Mobility and Consumer Markets, holds the new BlackBerry Torch during a product introduction, Tuesday, Aug. 3, 2010, in New York. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)

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FILE - This file photo made Feb. 8, 2010, shows PlayStation and Wii versions of Madden NFL 10, an Electronic Arts game, are seen on display in Mountain View, Calif. Video game publisher Electronic Arts said, Tuesdsay, Aug. 3, 2010, said Tuesday its net income totaled $96 million, or 29 cents per share in its fiscal first quarter, which ended in June. In the same period last year EA's net loss was $234 million, or 72 cents per share. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma, File)

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The sale of a home in the Point Breeze section of Pittsburgh is pending in mid-June. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)

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The sale of a home in the Point Breeze section of Pittsburgh is pending in mid-June. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)

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In this photograph taken Aug. 1, 2010, back-to-school shoppers crowd the aisles at a Staples store in Little Rock, Ark. The pace of consumer spending stalled in June and personal incomes failed to increase, further evidence that the economy slowed significantly in the spring. (AP Photo/Danny Johnston)

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BEHIND THE CURVE: A trader at the Dubai International Financial Market uses a BlackBerry on Monday. (Bloomberg)

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Associated Press Democrats are hoping to win the votes of Sens. Olympia J. Snowe (left) and Susan Collins, Maine Republicans, to pass a $26 billion spending measure that would help states and local school boards.

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Joe Sestak

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In this June 8, 2009, fine photo, Jianhua "Kenny" Huang attends a press conference held in Beijing. Chinese businessman Huang has offered to buy Liverpool's 237 million pound debt ($374 million) from a British bank in an attempt to end Tom Hicks and George Gillett Jr.'s control of the English Premier League club. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan, File)

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"Meet the Press" host David Gregory (left) on Sunday interviews former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan, who said he thinks the economy is in a modest recovery, but added that right now there's a "pause" in that recovery, so it feels like a "quasi-recession." (NBC via Associated Press)

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"Meet the Press" moderator David Gregory (left) interviews former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan on Sunday, Aug. 1, 2010. Mr. Greenspan said a rising stock market will do more to stimulate the economy than any of the remedies now being discussed. (AP Photo/NBC, Stephen J. Boitano)

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In this July 30, 2010 photo, a man pushes his bike across a pedestrian's overpass while cars heading in town jam on the road during morning commuting in Beijing, China. China is set to overtake Japan as the world's second largest-economy in a resurgence that is changing everything from the global balance of military and financial power to how cars are designed.