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K. Hovnanian is building 122 town homes at River Pointe Towns in Leesburg. The homes have 1,942 to 2,554 finished square feet, with base prices from $389,990 to $459,990.

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Ford cars ready for export are parked at the Ford plant in Genk, Belgium, on Thursday, Oct. 25, 2012. Ford Motor Co. announced Wednesday it planned to close a car plant in eastern Belgium — one of its main European factories — by the end of 2014, a move that would result in 4,500 direct job losses and 5,000 more among subcontractors. (AP Photo/Geert Vanden Wijngaert)

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Ford cars ready for export are parked at the company's plant in Genk, Belgium, on Thursday, Oct. 25, 2012. Ford Motor Co. announced Wednesday it planned to close a car plant in eastern Belgium — one of its main European factories — by the end of 2014, a move that would result in 4,500 direct job losses and 5,000 more among subcontractors. (AP Photo/Geert Vanden Wijngaert)

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Workers leave the Ford Transit Assembly Plant in Southampton, England, on Thursday, Oct. 25, 2012, as union leaders are called to a meeting with car giant Ford Motor Co. amid fears that the firm's U.K. van factory is to close. Ford, which expects to lose more than $1 billion a year in Europe, has been pursuing plant closures and layoffs. (AP Photo/Chris Ison/PA Wire)

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A security guard locks a gate at the Ford Transit Assembly Plant in Southampton, England, after workers were told the site will close, with the loss of up to 1,500 jobs, on Thursday, Oct. 25, 2012. Ford, which expects to lose more than $1 billion a year in Europe, has been pursuing plant closures and layoffs. (AP Photo/Chris Ison/PA)

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This NOAA satellite image taken Thursday, Oct. 25, 2012 at 1:45 a.m. EDT shows Category 2 Hurricane Sandy moving northward across eastern Cuba with sustained wind speeds of 110 mph as weakening Tropical Storm Tony is in the central Atlantic Basin moving ENE with sustained winds of 50 mph. (AP Photo/Weather Underground)

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A security guard locks a gate at the Ford Transit Assembly Plant in Southampton, England, after workers were told on Thursday, Oct. 25, 2012, that the plant will close, with the loss of up to 1,500 jobs. (AP Photo/Press Association, Chris Ison)

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Detroit Tigers 3B Miguel Cabrera reacts on the bench during the fifth inning of Game 1 of the World Series between the Tigers and San Francisco Giants in San Francisco on Oct. 24, 2012. (Associated Press)

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A National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration satellite image taken on Wednesday, Oct. 24, 2012, at 1:45 p.m. EDT shows Hurricane Sandy (lower left) across the central Caribbean moving northward toward Jamaica and Cuba. Tropical Storm Tony (top right) is seen along the tail end of a cold front across the central Atlantic. (AP Photo/Weather Underground)

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** FILE ** In this Oct. 22, 2012 photo, Yuichi Okamura, manager of the Water Treatment System Department at the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant, gestures while speaking during an exclusive interview at the Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO) headquarters in Tokyo. (AP Photo/Shizuo Kambayashi)

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Mitt Romney says the government cannot afford to support Big Bird anymore, and President Obama has come to Big Bird’s defense on the stump and in campaign ads. (Associated Press)