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Saudi oil minister Ali al-Naimi is surrounded by journalists during the Organization of Arab Petroleum Exporting Countries (OAPEC) meeting Saturday in Cairo, Egypt. OPEC oil ministers downplayed expectations of, but didn't dismiss outright, an immediate output cut as they faced a third test in as many months of their ability to engineer a rebound in oil prices. (Associated Press)

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Chrysler Chairman Lee Iacocca testifies in 1979 before the House banking committee. (Associated Press) ** FILE **

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Electrical lines will be used for broadband Internet access as IBM Corp. partners with a smaller firm to improve access for rural areas not served by cable or DSL. They plan to work with local electric cooperatives. (Getty Images)

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The sign in front of a BP gas station in Brunswick, Ohio, shows the price of one gallon of unleaded regular gasoline to be $1.89.9 on Monday, Nov. 10, 2008. Oil prices fell to near an 18-month low of $60 a barrel Tuesday as hopes waned that a huge Chinese spending plan will do much to avert a prolonged slowdown in the global economy.

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** FILE ** Case Vermillion answers a customer's question at a gun shop in Fort Worth, Texas, on in 2008. (Associated Press)

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Reel tender Mo Laussie watches fiber-optic cable as he helps install the cable onto telephone poles in 2001 in Louisville, Colo.

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Traders signal in the CME Group's S&P 500 futures pit in Chicago Wednesday shortly after the Federal Reserve cut interest rates by a half-point.

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BLOOMBERG NEWS - Former Enron Corp. Chief Executive Officer Jeffrey K. Skilling and his lead trial counsel, Daniel Petrocelli, return to the courthouse in 2006.

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** FILE ** About 30,000 participants run along the Potomac River near the Lincoln Memorial during the annual 26.2-long Marine Corps Marathon in 2008. (The Washington Times)

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Paul Krugman, a Princeton University professor of economics and a New York Times columnist, is applauded by Princeton President Shirley M. Tilghman after winning the Nobel Prize in economics. (Associated Press) ** FILE **

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A U.S. Secret Service officer watches the crowd who wait to shake Sen. Biden's hand after the rally. (Mary F. Calvert/The Washington Times)

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AmeriCorps member Samantha Royes (right) helps Fayvin Bowens, 11, a student at Noyes Elementary School, with her homework at the Youth Gateway Program, an initiative of the Community Preservation and Development Corps., in Washington D.C., Friday, Oct. 10, 2008. (Rod Lamkey Jr./The Washington Times)

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Getty Images Officials from the International Monetary Fund - who were visiting the Icelandic capital, Reykjavik, on other business - met with government officials about the economic crisis. Iceland, which has not decided whether to seek IMF help, has a long economic reach because of global investments.

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A television screen at the New York Stock Exchange shows the decision of the Federal Reserve to lower interest rates, Wednesday Oct. 8, 2008. The emergency cut led by the Federal Reserve will at least temporarily provide relief for investors who have been battered this week. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)