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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)

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BP CEO Tony Hayward is sworn in on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, June 17, 2010, prior to before testifying before the Energy and Environment subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations hearing on the role of BP in the Deepwater Horizon Explosion and Oil Spill. (AP Photo/Haraz N. Ghanbari)

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BP CEO Tony Hayward testifies before the House Energy and Commerce Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee regarding BP's Deepwater Horizon oil rig explosion and oil spill on Capitol Hill in Washington on June 17, 2010. UPI/Roger L. Wollenberg

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A protester is controlled by a Capitol Hill Police Officer while she calls for BP CEO Tony Hayward to be charged with a crime as he began to testify before the House Energy and Commerce Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee regarding BP's Deepwater Horizon oil rig explosion and oil spill on Capitol Hill in Washington on June 17, 2010. UPI/Roger L. Wollenberg

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** FILE ** In this file photo of Thursday, May 20, 2010, the Metropolitan Opera House, center, is seen behind a newly rebuilt fountain at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts in New York. The Metropolitan Opera suffered through an ignoble fiscal year in 2009. (AP Photo/Henny Ray Abrams, file)

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BP Chief Executive Officer Tony Hayward listens outside the West Wing of the White House in Washington, Wednesday, June 16, 2010, after a meeting with President Obama. Mr. Hayward will testify before a House committee on Thursday, June 17, 2010. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

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Trader Christopher Lotito, left, checks prices as he works on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange on Wednesday, June 16, 2010. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)

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BP Chairman Carl-Henric Svanberg speaks to the news media outside the White House in Washington, Wednesday, June 16, 2010, after attending a meeting at the White House with President Obama in Washington. Standing behind Mr. Svanberg is BP Chief Executive Officer Tony Hayward, left, and BP Managing Director Bob Dudley, second from left. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

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Joint Chiefs Chairman Adm. Mike Mullen, left, and Defense Secretary Robert Gates, right, testify on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, June 16, 2010, before the Senate Appropriations Committee hearing on the Defense Department's fiscal 2011 budget. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

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Senate Committee Appropriations Chairman Sen. Daniel Inouye, D-Hawaii, left, talks with Defense Secretary Robert Gates, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, June 16, 2010, before the start of the committee's hearing on the Defense Department's fiscal 2011 budget. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

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Joint Chiefs Chairman Adm. Mike Mullen, left, and Defense Secretary Robert Gates, take their seats on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, June 16, 2010, prior to testifying before the Senate Appropriations Committee hearing on the Defense Department's fiscal 2011 budget. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

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Joint Chiefs Chairman Adm. Mike Mullen, left, huddles with Defense Secretary Robert Gates on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, June 16, 2010, during the Senate Appropriations Committee on hearing on the Defense Department's fiscal 2011 budget. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

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From left, Joint Chiefs Chairman Adm. Mike Mullen, Defense Robert Gates and Pentagon Comptroller Robert Hale, testify on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, June 16, 2010, before the Senate Appropriations Committee hearing on the Defense Department's fiscal 2011 budget. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

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BP Chief Executive Officer Tony Hayward (second from left), BP America chief Lamar McKay (second from right), BP Chairman Carl-Henric Svanberg (center) and other BP representatives arrive at the White House in Washington on Wednesday, June 16, 2001, for a meeting with President Obama. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

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Tony Hayward (left), chief executive officer of BP PLC, arrives at the White House in Washington on Wednesday, June 16, 2010. As devastation from the worst U.S. oil spill mounts, President Obama vowed that BP will pay for all damage caused by its recklessness and that the government would commit to restoring the Gulf Coast. (Bloomberg News/Andrew Harrer)

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** FILE ** Vessels operate near the Q4000 drilling rig at the site of the Deepwater Horizon well in the Gulf of Mexico on Sunday, June 13, 2010. (AP Photo/Dave Martin)

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BP Chief Executive Officer Tony Hayward (left), BP America chief Lamar McKay (second from right) and other BP executives arrive at the White House in Washington on Wednesday, June 16, 2010, for a meeting with President Obama. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

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Richard Stavis, CEO of Stavis Seafoods, Inc., poses with 13 - 15 count domestic gulf shrimp at their corporate headquarters in the Seaport District of Boston, Tuesday, June 8, 2010. Most of the Gulf of Mexico is still open to fishing despite the oil spill, and crews continue to deliver shrimp and other seafood to the market. (AP Photo/Lisa Poole)

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Lamar McKay, BP America chairman and president, prepares to testify on Capitol Hill in Washington on Tuesday, June 15, 2010, before the House Energy and Environment subcommittee hearing on oil drilling. (AP Photo/Haraz N. Ghanbari)

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People wait in a long line in front of a Bic Camera electronics store which takes pre-orders ahead of the June 24 launch of iPhone 4 in Tokyo Tuesday, June 15, 2010. Customers were instructed to submit reservations online with Softbank Mobile Corp., the iPhone's exclusive carrier in Japan, or at any of its retail outlets as well as Apple stores. (AP Photo/Tomoko A. Hosaka)