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FILE - This Monday, July 25, 2016, file photo shows the Yahoo and Verizon logos on a laptop, in North Andover, Mass. Yahoo is taking a $350 million hit on its previously announced $4.8 billion sale to Verizon in a concession for security lapses that exposed personal information stored in more than 1 billion Yahoo user accounts.The revised agreement announced Tuesday, Feb. 21, 2017, eases investor worries that Verizon Communications Inc. would demand a discount of at least $1 billion or cancel the deal entirely. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola, File)

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New York Mets' Wilmer Flores (4) talks with a fan during a spring training baseball workout Wednesday, Feb. 15, 2017, in Port St. Lucie, Fla. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)

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FILE- In this Feb. 16, 2017, file photo, House Speaker Paul Ryan of Wis. meets with reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington. Beneath the capital’s radar looms a catchall spending package that’s likely to top $1 trillion. It could get embroiled in the politics of building Trump’s wall at the U.S.-Mexico border and a budget-busting Pentagon request. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

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In this Feb. 14, 2017, photo, Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer of N.Y, speaks to reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington. Beneath the capital’s radar looms a catchall spending package that’s likely to top $1 trillion. It could get embroiled in the politics of building Trump’s wall at the U.S.-Mexico border and a budget-busting Pentagon request. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

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President Donald Trump arrives at the White House in Washington, Monday, Feb. 20, 2017. Trump returned from Palm Beach, Fla., on Monday after spending three weekends in a row at his Mara-a-Lago estate. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

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Lee Hee-beom, president and CEO of the Pyeongchang Organizing Committee for the Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games (POCOG), delivers speech during a media conference in Sapporo, northern Japan, Tuesday, Feb. 21, 2017. Lee expects the 2018 Olympics to usher in a new era for winter sports in Asia. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)

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Lee Hee-beom, president and CEO of the Pyeongchang Organizing Committee for the Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games (POCOG), delivers a speech during a media conference in Sapporo, northern Japan, Tuesday, Feb. 21, 2017. Lee expects the 2018 Olympics to usher in a new era for winter sports in Asia. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)

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The resignation of National Security Adviser Michael Flynn has opened up a vicious fight over the integrity of the intelligence community. (Associated Press)

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Chart to accompany Rahn article of Feb 21, 2017

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Retirement Planning Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

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FILE - In this Tuesday, Sept. 24, 2013, file photo, Curt Viebranz, president and CEO of George Washington's Mount Vernon Estate, poses in the new Fred W. Smith National Library for the Study of George Washington in Mount Vernon, Va. Viebranz expects between 10,000 and 15,000 people to visit the estate on Monday, Feb. 20, 2017. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)

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Flags blow in a breeze near the the Bayonne Bridge, Monday, Feb. 20, 2017, in Bayonne, N.J. The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey says the bridge connecting Bayonne to New York's Staten Island opened for vehicles on the new upper deck roadway at 5 a.m. Monday after years of work to raise the deck. (AP Photo/Mel Evans)

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A worker uses a lift as he works below the new roadway on the old road deck on the Bayonne Bridge Monday, Feb. 20, 2017, in Bayonne, N.J. The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey says the bridge connecting Bayonne to New York's Staten Island opened for vehicles on the new upper deck roadway at 5 a.m. Monday after years of work to raise the deck. (AP Photo/Mel Evans)

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FILE - In this Monday Dec. 26, 2016, file photo, Ohio State head coach Urban Meyer speaks to the media after arriving with his team at Phoenix Sky Harbor Airport in Phoenix. Once seen as a luxury of the corporate world, private planes are becoming increasingly common at U.S. colleges and universities as schools try to attract athletes, raise money and reward coaches with jet-set vacations. At Ohio State University, which leases one plane and partly owns another, Meyer and members of his family took more than 10 personal trips last school year, including a vacation in Florida, a weekend getaway to Cape Cod and a spring break in South Carolina. (AP Photo/Ralph Freso, File)

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Once seen as a luxury of the corporate world, private planes are becoming increasingly common at U.S. colleges and universities as schools try to attract athletes, raise money and reward coaches with jet-set vacations. Iowa State University President Steven Leath, a pilot, acknowledged last year that he used a school plane for trips that mixed personal and university business, a practice that came to light after he damaged the aircraft in a hard landing. (Bloomington Normal Airport Authority via AP, File)

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FILE - In this file photo taken Tuesday, Dec. 16, 2014, a woman walks past the company logo of the internet car service, Uber, in San Francisco, USA. Uber’s chief executive ordered an urgent investigation Monday Feb. 20, 2017, into a sexual harassment claim made by a female engineer who alleged her prospects at the company evaporated after she complained about advances from her boss. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg, FILE)

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A tourist uses his binoculars as the ancient Acropolis hill is seen in the background during a 24-hour strike by archaeological guards demanding unpaid wages and the recruitment of additional employees in Athens, Monday, Feb. 20, 2017. Greece has been struggling for months to conclude negotiations with its creditors on spending cuts and reforms demanded by European creditors and the International Monetary Fund as part of its third bailout program. (AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis)

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Tourists stand on a hill under ancient Acropolis hill during a 24-hour strike by archaeological guards demanding unpaid wages and the recruitment of additional employees in Athens, Monday, Feb. 20, 2017. Greece has been struggling for months to conclude negotiations with its creditors on spending cuts and reforms demanded by European creditors and the International Monetary Fund as part of its third bailout program. (AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis)

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There are people who want to tear us apart ... (Illustration by Dana Summers of the Tribune Media Services)