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A visitor looks at a cut model of the engine used for Toyota Lexus LS600hL and LS600H at a Toyota showroom in Tokyo Thursday, July 1, 2010. Toyota Motor Corp. said Thursday about 270,000 cars sold worldwide, including luxury Lexus sedans, have faulty engines, the latest quality lapse to hit the automaker following massive global recalls. Both LS600hL and LS600H are among the Lexus models Toyota said have faulty engines. (AP Photo/Shizuo Kambayashi)

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Benigno Aquino, Philippine president, delivers his inaugural speech at Quirino Grandstand in Manila, the Philippines, on Wednesday, June 30, 2010. Aquino, who rose from political outsider to Philippine president in less than a year, takes office today pledging to fight poverty, narrow the budget deficit and refrain from raising taxes in a nation trailing its neighbors in economic growth and international investment. Photographer: Edwin Tuyay/Bloomberg

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Benigno Aquino, Philippine president, second right, is sworn in by Associate Justice Conchita Carpio Morales, left, at Quirino Grandstand in Manila, the Philippines, on Wednesday, June 30, 2010. Aquino, who rose from political outsider to Philippine president in less than a year, takes office today pledging to fight poverty, narrow the budget deficit and refrain from raising taxes in a nation trailing its neighbors in economic growth and international investment. Photographer: Edwin Tuyay/Bloomberg

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** FILE ** This March 18, 2009 file photo, shows the exterior of an AIG office building in New York. A former CEO of AIG says he told the truth about the company's losses while defending its compensation. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, file)

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In this June 1, 2010, photo, people walk by a sale sign at the entrance of the Levi's store on Union Square in San Francisco. Retail sales plunged in May by the largest amount in eight months as consumers slashed spending on everything from cars to clothing. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg)

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**FILE** President Obama meets with Federal Reserve Board Chairman Ben Bernanke in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington on June 29, 2010. (Associated Press)

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BP shares fell sharply Friday, June 25, following the company's announcement that the cost of responding to the Gulf of Mexico oil leak has risen to $2.35 billion. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)

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In this photo taken April 2, 2010, workmen manufacture windows at Northeast Building Products in Philadelphia. The government lowered its estimate of how much the economy grew in the first quarter of the year, noting that consumers spent less than it previously thought. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

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Jeffrey Galvan displays his new iPhone 4 purchased at the Apple Inc. store on Fifth Avenue in New York on Thursday, June 24, 2010. Apple Inc. will probably sell a record 1 million iPhones today with the debut of the new version. Photographer: Ramin Talaie/Bloomberg

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People march during a protest on the Old-Port in Marseille, southern France, on Thursday June 24, 2010. Many French trains stood still, schoolchildren played instead of studied and post offices were shuttered as workers nationwide went on strike Thursday to protest President Nicolas Sarkozy's plans to raise the retirement age to 62. Nearly 200 marches and protests are planned for several cities over a broad reform to the money-losing pension system, part of efforts around Europe to cut back on growing public debts. (AP Photo/Claude Paris)

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House Capital Markets, Insurance, and Government Sponsored Enterprises subcommittee Chairman Rep. Paul E. Kanjorski, Pennsylvania Democrat, speaks during the House Committee on Financial Services Committee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, Monday, Jan. 5, 2009. (AP Photo/Haraz N. Ghanbari)

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Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, left, and Russian gas monopoly Gazprom head, Alexei Miller, meet at the Gorki presidential residence outside Moscow, Monday, June 21, 2010. Mr. Medvedev ordered the state-controlled gas monopoly Monday to cut gas supplies to ex-Soviet neighbor Belarus over its debt for Russian natural gas supplies. On Thursday, June 24, 2010, Russia announced it will resume supply to Belarus. (AP Photo/RIA Novosti, Dmitry Astakhov, Presidential Press service)

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This image from video provided by BP PLC early Wednesday, June 23, 2010, shows oil gushing from the broken wellhead, at the site of the Deepwater Horizon oil well in the Gulf of Mexico. The logistics coordinator onboard the ship that's been siphoning oil from the well tells the Associated Press that a cap on top has been reattached and is again capturing some of the crude. (AP Photo/BP PLC) NO SALES

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Former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick listens to a judge sentence him in May for probation violations. Kilpatrick was indicted on federal fraud and tax charges Wednesday. He is accused of using his tax-exempt charity, the Kirkpatrick Civic Fund, as a slush fund for personal expenses. (Associated Press)

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In this photo made June 2, 2010, a sold sign is posted outside a new home under construction, in Cincinnati. Home construction plunged in May to the lowest level since December as builders scaled back without a federal tax credit to lure buyers. Building permits also fell, a sign the construction industry won't fuel the economic recovery.(AP Photo/Al Behrman)

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In this file photo taken June 16, 2010, BP Chief Executive Officer Tony Hayward, left, and BP Managing Director Bob Dudley, right, arrive with other BP executives at the White House in Washington. BP PLC said Wednesday, June 23, 2010, that Mr. Dudley has been appointed to head the new Gulf Coast Restoration Organization, which is in charge of cleaning up the oil spill. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, file)

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The Securities and Exchange Commission on Monday filed civil fraud charges against an investment adviser and his firm in connection with complex securities tied to mortgages during the housing market bust. (AP Photo/File)

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** FILE ** A bank clerk stacks renminbi banknotes at a bank in Hefei in central China's Anhui province in November 2009. (AP Photo/File)

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Christopher Barton is photographed on the Las Vegas Strip on Monday, June 14, 2010. Mr. Barton, 31, of Boulder City, Nev., first tried Rentafriend about six months ago during a business trip training clients for an online university. Spending more than a week on the road on average every month, he hates to eat alone in restaurants and wants to make the most of his downtime. (AP Photo/Laura Rauch)