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FILE - In this Oct. 11, 2007 file photo, activist investor Carl Icahn speaks at the World Business Forum in New York. Activist investor Carl Icahn declared an end to his brief truce with boutique film studio Lions Gate Entertainment Corp. on Tuesday, July 20, 2010, renewing his bid to take over the company and replace its board.(AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, file)
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In this photo released by Greenpeace, a firefighter who was submerged in thick oil during an attempt to fix an underwater pump is brought ashore by his colleagues in Dalian, China, on Tuesday, July 20, 2010. Crude oil started pouring into the Yellow Sea off a busy northeastern port after a pipeline exploded late last week, sparking a massive 15-hour fire. The government says the slick has spread across a 70-square-mile stretch of ocean. (AP Photo/Jiang He, Greenpeace)
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In this photo released by Greenpeace, a firefighter who was submerged in thick oil during an attempt to fix an underwater pump is brought ashore by his colleagues in Dalian, China, on Tuesday, July 20, 2010. Crude oil started pouring into the Yellow Sea off a busy northeastern port after a pipeline exploded late last week, sparking a massive 15-hour fire. The government says the slick has spread across a 70-square-mile stretch of ocean. (AP Photo/Jiang He, Greenpeace)
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In this photo released by Greenpeace, a firefighter who was submerged in thick oil during an attempt to fix an underwater pump is brought ashore by his colleagues in Dalian, China, on Tuesday, July 20, 2010. Crude oil started pouring into the Yellow Sea off a busy northeastern port after a pipeline exploded late last week, sparking a massive 15-hour fire. The government says the slick has spread across a 70-square-mile stretch of ocean. (AP Photo/Jiang He, Greenpeace)
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In this photo released by Greenpeace, oil covered the hand of a firefighter who was overwhelmed by the thick oil spill while attempting to fix an underwater pump is seen after he is pulled ashore by his colleagues in Dalian, China, on Tuesday, July 20, 2010. Crude oil started pouring into the Yellow Sea off a busy northeastern port after a pipeline exploded late last week, sparking a massive 15-hour fire. The government says the slick has spread across a 70-square-mile stretch of ocean. (AP Photo/Jiang He, Greenpeace)
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This photo released by Greenpeace shows oil washed ashore near the port of Dalian, China, on Tuesday, July 20, 2010. Crude oil started pouring into the Yellow Sea off a busy northeastern port after a pipeline exploded late last week, sparking a massive 15-hour fire. The government says the slick has spread across a 70-square-mile stretch of ocean. (AP Photo/Jiang He, Greenpeace)
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In this file photo taken April 16, 2010, people walk through the lobby of the Goldman Sachs headquarters in the Lower Manhattan area of New York. Goldman Sachs Group Inc. reported Tuesday, July 20, its second-quarter net income fell 83 percent to $453 million as its trading revenue fell and it booked a charge for its settlement of civil fraud charges with the Securities and Exchange Commission.(AP Photo/Diane Bondareff, file)
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This Feb. 2, 2010, photo shows the corporate sign of Toyota Motor Corp. at a showroom of the Japanese automaker in Nagoya, central Japan. Toyota Motor Corp. said Tuesday it has been subpoenaed by a federal grand jury in New York to submit documents related to problems with rods that connect a vehicle's steering system to its front wheels. (AP Photo/Shizuo Kambayashi)
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FILE - In this July 9, 2010 file photograph, Chairman of the Board and CEO of IBM, Samuel J. Palmisano speaks at the annual meeting of the National Governors Association, in Boston. International Business Machines Corp. will announce second-quarter financial results Monday, July 19, 2010, after the market close,(AP Photo/Michael Dwyer, file)
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FILE - In this Jan. 25, 2010 file photo, a company logo is displayed outside Texas Instruments' offices in Sunnyvale, Calif. Texas Instruments Inc., reports quarterly earnings Monday, Oct. 25, 2010, after the market close. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma, file)
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A customer buys groceries at Mercal, a government-owned market in Caracas. The markets are part of Mr. Chavez's effort to counter 31 percent inflation in a recession economy.
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Mr. Chavez has selectively nationalized some companies while touting socialism, but the private sector controls two-thirds of the economy.
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FILE - In this file photograph taken May 8, 2007, the company logo of Nokia Siemens Networks is displayed in front of the headquarters in Munich, southern Germany. Nokia Siemens Networks says it will acquire the majority of Motorola's wireless operations in a $1.2 billion deal.(AP Photo/Diether Endlicher, file)
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FILE - In this file photo made Jan. 9, 2010, the Motorola logo is seen at the company's exhibit at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. Motorola Inc. said Monday, July 19, 2010, that it is selling most of its wireless network division to Nokia Siemens Networks, a Finnish-German joint venture, for $1.2 billion as part of a planned breakup of the company. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma, file)
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** FILE ** In this file photo taken June 7, 2010, a Delta Airlines Inc. plane sits on the tarmac at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport in Seattle. Delta Air Lines reversed a second-quarter loss with with what it said Monday, July 19, is its largest quarterly profit in a decade thanks to strong passenger revenue. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren, File)
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Associated Press Glenn Wilder, owner of an auto-repair garage in Scituate, Mass., and others are pushing the state legislature to pass a bill they say would enable them to get the computer codes they need to repair cars on an equal footing with auto dealerships.
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**FILE** A wall at a shopping center is covered by graffiti that reads in Spanish: "What happened on the 16 (street) is going to keep happening to all the authorities that continue to support the Chapo (Guzman), sincerely, the Juarez Cartel. We still have car bombs (expletive) ha ha." Cartel assailants laid a trap for federal police and attacked them with a car bomb on July 15, the first time a drug cartel have used explosives to attack Mexican security forces, marking an escalation in the country's drug war. (Associated Press)
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Drilling rigs and workboats operate at the site of the Deepwater Horizon incident in the Gulf of Mexico Friday, July 16, 2010. The wellhead has been capped and BP is continuing to test the integrity of the well before resuming production. (AP Photo/Dave Martin)
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Apple CEO Steve Jobs talks about the Apple iPhone 4 at Apple headquarters in Cupertino, Calif., Friday, July 16, 2010. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma)
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In this file photograph taken June 23, 2010, Vikram Pandit, CEO of Citigroup Inc., speaks at the New York Forum, in New York. Citigroup said Friday, July 16, its second-quarter net income dropped 10 percent to $2.7 billion even as its loan losses fell. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, file)
