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In this frame grab image provided by video from WPXI-TV, a fire rustling from a natural gas well explosion burns in Indianola, Pa., northeast of Pittsburgh on Friday, July 23, 2010. Police reported two persons killed. (AP Photo/WPXI)

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In this frame grab image provided by video from WPXI-TV, a fire rustling from a natural gas well explosion burns in Indianola, Pa., northeast of Pittsburgh on Friday, July 23, 2010. Police reported two persons killed. (AP Photo/WPXI)

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In this frame grab image provided by video from WPXI-TV, a fire rustling from a natural gas well explosion burns in Indianola, Pa., northeast of Pittsburgh on Friday, July 23, 2010. Police reported two persons killed. (AP Photo/WPXI)

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In this frame grab image provided by video from WPXI-TV, personnel battle a fire rustling from a natural gas well explosion in Indianola, Pa., northeast of Pittsburgh on Friday, July 23, 2010. Police reported two persons killed. (AP Photo/WPXI)

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Kenneth Feinberg, the Treasury Department's pay czar, said Friday, July 23, 2010, that 17 banks gave their top executives $1.6 billion in lavish payments while they were receiving billions of dollars in taxpayer-funded bailouts.(AP Photo/The Sun Herald, Amanda McCoy)

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In this July 21, 2010 photo, a Best Buy customer looks at a Motorola Droid phone by Verizon in Mountain View, Calif. Verizon posts a loss for the second quarter Friday, July 23, 2010, due to a buyout for 11,000 workers, and its revenue comes in below Wall Street expectations.(AP Photo/Paul Sakuma)

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Group leaders work on a pre-production 2012 Ford Focus at the Michigan Assembly Plant in Wayne, Mich., Thursday, July 22, 2010. Ford Motor Co. said Friday, July 23, 2010, it posted net income of $2.6 billion in the second quarter as it continued to grab sales from rivals in a slowly recovering U.S. market. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio)

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In this photo taken Jan. 26, 2011, customer Bill Wilson, 82, left, is tutored by technical advisor Jimmy Zhao during a personal training session in a Microsoft Store in Bellevue, Wash. Microsoft Corp. on Thursday, Jan. 27 said its net income for the latest quarter fell slightly from a year ago, and it beat Wall Street's expectations despite the weak personal computer market. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)

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FILE - In this file photo made June 23, 2010, Arthur Sulzberger Jr., Chairman and Publisher of The New York Times, speaks during the New York Forum in New York. The New York Times Co. posted its first quarterly revenue growth since 2007 on Thursday, July 22, 2010, with a jump in online advertising revenue offsetting further declines in print.(AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File)

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FILE - In this file photo made May 25, 2010, Amazon.com Inc. CEO and founder Jeff Bezos speaks during the company's shareholders meeting in Seattle. Amazon.com Inc. said Thursday, July 22, 2010, that its second-quarter income jumped, bolstered by shoppers who spent more with the online retailer even as consumer confidence fell overall. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren, File)

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In this photo taken on Wednesday, July 21, 2010, and released by Greenpeace, a villager displays his hand coated in crude oil during cleanup efforts almost a week after a pipeline, owned by China Nation Petroleum Corp., exploded in Nanhaitun, Weitang Bay, China. China National Petroleum Corp. said Thursday the vital pipeline has resumed operations after an explosion caused the country's largest reported oil spill. Cleanup efforts, marred by the drowning death of a worker, continued over 165 square mile stretch of water blanketed in thick, dark oil Thursday, after an official warned the spill posed a severe threat to sea life and water quality. (AP Photo/Greenpeace, Jiang He)

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In this Tuesday, July 20, 2010 photo, the surface of a beach is covered by the spilled crude oil in Dalian, a coastal city in northeast China's Liaoning province. The oil had spread over water since a pipeline at the busy northeastern port exploded, hurting oil shipments from part of China's strategic oil reserves to the rest of the country. (AP Photo/Xinhua, Li Gang)

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In this photo taken Wednesday, July 21, 2010, workers move a bag on the beach polluted by crude oil after a pipeline explosion in Dalian in northeast China's Liaoning province. China National Petroleum Corp. said Thursday a vital pipeline has resumed operations after the explosion caused the country's largest reported oil spill. (AP Photo)

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In this photo taken Wednesday, July 21, 2010, workers clean and collect crude oil near a polluted beach after a pipeline explosion in Dalian in northeast China's Liaoning province. China National Petroleum Corp. said Thursday the vital pipeline has resumed operations after an explosion caused the country's largest reported oil spill. (AP Photo)

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In this photo taken on Wednesday, July 21, 2010, released by Greenpeace, mollusks are seen coated in crude oil, at the Guotai Water Products Farm, less than a mile away from the site of an oil spill, at Xingang Port in Dalian in northeast China's Liaoning province. China National Petroleum Corp. said Thursday the vital pipeline has resumed operations after an explosion caused the country's largest reported oil spill. Cleanup efforts, marred by the drowning death of a worker, continued over 165 square mile stretch of water blanketed in thick, dark oil Thursday, after an official warned the spill posed a severe threat to sea life and water quality. (AP Photo/Greenpeace, Jiang He)

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** FILE ** In this file photo made June 23, 2010, Arthur Sulzberger Jr., Chairman and Publisher of The New York Times, speaks during the New York Forum in New York. The New York Times Co. posted its first quarterly revenue growth since 2007 on Thursday, July 22, 2010, with a jump in online advertising revenue offsetting further declines in print. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, file)

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In this March 25, 2010 file photo, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington. Bernanke stepped up pressure on Monday, July 12, 2010, to get banks to boost lending to the nation's small businesses, a critical element to spurring the economic recovery and reducing unemployment.(AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta, File)

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In this July 15, 2010, file photo President Obama speaks to reporters outside the Oval Office of the White House in Washington. On Thursday, July 22, 2010, Mr. Obama signed into law the "Improper Payments Elimination and Recovery Act," which he said will reduce waste and fraud in government spending. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)

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In this July 21, 2010, photo, trader John Bowers uses his handheld device as he works on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. Stock futures are barely off their highs of the morning after the government says weekly jobless claims jumped more than expected last week. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)

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Tighe Barry (right) of Los Angeles and Zaccai Free rally Wednesday outside the Department of Agriculture in support of Mrs. Sherrod, demanding that she be reinstated.