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** FILE ** In this Oct. 31, 2012 photo, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg talks to traders at the New York Stock Exchange in New York. Bloomberg backed President Obama over Republican Mitt Romney on Thursday, saying the president will bring leadership critically needed to fight climate change in the wake of Hurricane Sandy. (Associated Press)

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A yellow crane sorts out the rubble of the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami at a collection site in northeastern Japan. Japan’s accounting of its budget for reconstruction from the disasters is crammed with spending on unrelated projects. (Associated Press)

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In this Monday, Sept. 24, file photo an elderly man walks inside the Athens' central fish market. To the casual visitor, all might appear well in Athens. But scratch the surface and you find a society in freefall, ripped apart by the most vicious financial crisis the country has seen in half a century. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)

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In this Monday, Sept. 24, people walk inside the Athens' central fish market. To the casual visitor, all might appear well in Athens. But scratch the surface and you find a society in freefall, ripped apart by the most vicious financial crisis the country has seen in half a century. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)

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In this Monday, Sept. 24, 2012 file photo a man pick up fish inside the Athens' central fish market. To the casual visitor, all might appear well in Athens. But scratch the surface and you find a society in freefall, ripped apart by the most vicious financial crisis the country has seen in half a century. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)

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In this Tuesday Sept. 25, 2012 file photo a coffee shop owner tells journalists that he has had an 80 percent drop in his business, in Athens. To the casual visitor, all might appear well in Athens. But scratch the surface and you find a society in freefall, ripped apart by the most vicious financial crisis the country has seen in half a century.(AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)

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A resident of the northern Greek town of Florina shouts anti-austerity slogans as he demonstrates outside Parliament, during a protest in Athens on Wednesday, Oct. 31, 2012. Florina residents are angry at pre-winter tax hikes in heating oil, introduced as part of the near-bankrupt country's austerity measures. (AP Photo/Dimitri Messinis)

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Storm damage along the Atlantic coast in Mantoloking, N.J., is pictured on Wednesday, Oct. 31, 2012, from a helicopter traveling behind the Marine One copter carrying President Obama and New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie on an inspection tour. (AP Photo/Doug Mills, Pool)

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Storm damage along the Atlantic coast in Seaside Heights, N.J., is seen on Wednesday, Oct. 31, 2012, from a helicopter traveling behind the Marine One chopper carrying President Obama and New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie on an inspection tour. (AP Photo/Doug Mills, Pool)

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President Obama (center), with New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, Federal Emergency Management Agency Administrator Craig Fugate, and other local and federal officials, speaks about the superstorm Sandy relief efforts while standing in front of North Point Marina on Wednesday, Oct. 31, 2012, in Brigantine, N.J. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

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Wagner Homes is building 26 single-family homes at Canterbury Crossing in Severna Park. The Willow Brooke model has 2,700 square feet and is priced from $629,990.

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Greek bondholders stand at the entrance to Greece's central bank during a protest in Athens on Wednesday, Oct. 31, 2012. (AP Photo/Kostas Tsironis)

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Anastasia Mouzakiti (center), a paraplegic from the northern city of Thessaloniki, Greece, came with her husband to Athens to protest outside the Greek parliament on Thursday, Sept. 27, 2012. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)

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Associated Press South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley (left) and Mark Keel, chief of the state’s Law Enforcement Division, on Monday discuss a cyberattack that saw about 3.6 million tax returns hacked. The vulnerable returns included millions of Social Security numbers.