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Neil Cramond, BP's Gulf of Mexico marine authority, testifies Monday during hearings into the Deepwater Horizon explosion and the resulting oil spill in the Gulf. (AP Photo/Melissa Phillip, Pool)
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The interior of 3Par headquarters is shown in Fremont, Caif., Monday, Aug. 23, 2010. Hewlett-Packard Co. is bidding $1.5 billion for data storage provider 3Par Inc., offering 33 percent more than what rival Dell Inc. agreed to pay for the company just a week earlier. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma)
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FILE - In this file photo made March 23, 2010, Sprint CEO Dan Hesse unveils the HTC EVO 4G smart phone during the CTIA wireless show in Las Vegas. Manufacturers are having a tough time satisfying the demand for gadgets, from smart phones to computer networking, because investment in chip production collapsed during the recession. This could mean shortages of hot electronic products into the holidays. (AP Photo/Isaac Brekken, File)
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In this photo taken Wednesday, Aug. 11, 2010, Chairman Scott Liu of Taiwanese company E Ink Holdings Inc. poses with one of their flexible display panels used in digital readers with the screens used by Apple's iPads in Hsinchu, Taiwan. Four years ago Cambridge, Mass.-based E Ink Corporation and Taiwan's Prime View International Co. hooked up to create an e-paper display that now supplies 90 percent of the fast growing e-reader market. (AP Photo/Wally Santana)
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In this Feb. 18, 2011 photo, customers look at Hewlett-Packard Company printers, monitors and computers at Costco in Mountain View, Calif. Hewlett-Packard Co. reports fiscal first quarter results Tuesday, Feb. 22, 2011, after the market close. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma)
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FILE - In this June 1, 2010 file photo, employees arrive on bikes in front of Hewlett Packard Company headquarters in Palo Alto, Calif. Hewlett Packard Co. is scheduled to report its fiscal third-quarter numbers Thursday, August 19, 2010, after the market close. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma, file)
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Boxes of Dell desktops computers on display at Best Buy in Mountain View, Calif., Monday, Feb. 14, 2011. Dell Inc., releases quarterly financial results Tuesday, Feb. 15, after the market close.(AP Photo/Paul Sakuma)
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In this photograph taken on Aug. 19, 2010, traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, in New York. Stock futures are falling as investors continue a sell-off Friday, Aug. 20, that began a day earlier over worries about the pace of economic recovery. (AP Photo/Henny Ray Abrams)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS The federal ethics office said FDIC Chairman Sheila C. Bair received a retroactive waiver for mortgages she took out with Bank of America while working on the bank's government rescue, but it found no evidence the loans influenced her actions.
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ASSOCIATED PRESS Lime's Bayside Bar and Grill at the Marriott in Panama City Beach, Fla., where President Barack Obama, First lady Michelle Obama and daughter Sasha are luncing, is seen Saturday, Aug. 14, 2010. The Obamas are spending a weekend in Florida, part vacation, part sales pitch, as the president seeks to boost a tourism industry reeling after the Gulf of Mexico oil spill.
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The home at 7602 Connecticut Ave. in Chevy Chase, Md., is on the market for $1,729,000. The 1928 Mediterranean-style home has been completely renovated.
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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, right, talks with employees before announcing the social network site's new localization services called "Places" during a press conference in Palo Alto, Calif., on Wednesday, Aug. 18, 2010. (AP Photo/Tony Avelar)
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**FILE** This photo from April 21, 2009, shows American flags flying outside General Motors' world headquarters in Detroit. (Associated Press)
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Rachel Moore, Executive Director of the American Ballet Theater, looks on during a press conference at the Palco hotel in Havana, Cuba, Tuesday, Aug.17, 2010. Moore announced that the ballet company directed by her will travel to Cuba to participate in the International Ballet Festival that will be held in Havana Oct.28 - Nov.7.(AP Photo/Javier Galeano)
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FILE -In this July 8, 2009 file photo, Haim Saban, Chairman and CEO of the Saban Capitol Group, arrives for a media summit in Sun Valley, Idaho. Saban has bought Paul Frank Industries, the owner of the Julius monkey brand and other characters, for an undisclosed sum. (AP Photo/Nati Harnik, File)
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Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, second from left, hosts a Conference on the Future of Housing Finance, Tuesday, Aug. 17, 2010, at the Treasury Department in Washington. From left are, National Urban League President and CEO Marc Morial, Geithner, Ingrid Gould Ellen of New York University, and Alex Pollock of the American Enterprise Institute. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
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Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, second from left, hosts a Conference on the Future of Housing Finance, Tuesday, Aug. 17, 2010, at the Treasury Department in Washington. From left are National Urban League President and CEO Marc Morial, Mr. Geithner, Ingrid Gould Ellen of New York University, and Alex Pollock of the American Enterprise Institute. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
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Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner puts down his notes as he hosted the Conference on the Future of Housing Finance, Tuesday, Aug. 17, 2010, at the Treasury Department in Washington,. Sitting behind Geithner is Alex Pollock from the American Enterprise Institute. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
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Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, left, shakes hands with Housing and Urban Development Secretary Shaun Donovan, right, during the Conference on the Future of Housing Finance, Tuesday, Aug. 17, 2010, at the Treasury Department in Washington. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
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Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner pulls the cap off his pen before taking notes as he hosted a Conference on the Future of Housing Finance, Tuesday, Aug. 17, 2010, at the Treasury Department in Washington. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
