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A bottle of Maker's Mark bourbon is dipped in red wax at the company's distillery in Loretto, Ky., in April 2009. (AP Photo/Ed Reinke)

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A supporter of former Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko holds a poster of her in front of a state-run hospital in Kharkiv, Ukraine, on Wednesday, May 9, 2012. (AP Photo/dapd, Alexey Furman)

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U.S. Postmaster General Patrick Donahoe talks April 12, 2012, to Ingomar, Mont.-area residents about rural post office closures he says are needed as part of cost-cutting moves. (Associated Press)

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Protesters dressed up as Rupert Murdoch (left) and his son James pose April 24, 2012, for photographers as they demonstrate outside the High Court in London. Rupert Murdoch was testifying during Lord Justice Brian Leveson's inquiry into media ethics to answer questions about Murdoch's role in the phone hacking scandal at his now-defunct News of the World tabloid. (Associated Press)

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Federal prisoner Keith R. Judd is pictured at the Beaumont Federal Correctional Institution in Beaumont, Texas, in March 2008. (AP Photo/The Beaumont Enterprise, courtesy of Keith R. Judd)

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Gov. Bob McDonnell speaks with workers at Fredericksburg Machine and Steel, a family owned and run shop in Fredericksburg on Tuesday, May 8, 2012 as part of his tour of Virginia to tout it as a business friendly state. (AP Photo/The Free Lance-Star, Reza A. Marvashti)

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An officer's hat, glove, and a single red rose sit on a pillow at the front of St. Patrick's in the City to honor fallen officers during the annual Blue Mass on Tuesday, May 8, 2012 in Washington, D.C. The names of those officers killed in the line of duty in 2011 were read during the mass. (Barbara L. Salisbury/The Washington Times)

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Count Anton Wolfgang von Faber-Castell, chairman of Faber-Castell Aktiengesellschaft, throws pencils for demonstrating product quality from the castle tower of the Faber-Castell Castle (height about 20 meters / 65 feet) in the city of Stein near Nuremberg on Thursday, May 3, 2012. The German company Faber-Castell is one of the world's largest manufacturers of pens, pencils, other office supplies and art supplies, as well as high-end writing instruments and luxury leather goods. Faber-Castell is know for its "Perfect Pencil", an ordinary lead pencil enclosed in a beautiful silver case that includes a sharpener and can be reused as each pencil wears down. Christian Burkert/Special to The Washington Times.

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Portrait of Count Anton Wolfgang von Faber-Castell, chairman of Faber-Castell Aktiengesellschaft, in front of the Faber-Castell Castle in the city of Stein near Nuremberg on Thursday, May 3, 2012. The German company Faber-Castell is one of the world's largest manufacturers of pens, pencils, other office supplies and art supplies, as well as high-end writing instruments and luxury leather goods. Faber-Castell is know for its "Perfect Pencil", an ordinary lead pencil enclosed in a beautiful silver case that includes a sharpener and can be reused as each pencil wears down. Christian Burkert/Special to The Washington Times.

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Count Anton Wolfgang von Faber-Castell, chairman of Faber-Castell Aktiengesellschaft, throws pencils for demonstrating product quality from the castle tower of the Faber-Castell Castle (height about 20 meters / 65 feet) in the city of Stein near Nuremberg on Thursday, May 3, 2012. Sign of product quality: the pencil lead is not broken. The German company Faber-Castell is one of the world's largest manufacturers of pens, pencils, other office supplies and art supplies, as well as high-end writing instruments and luxury leather goods. Faber-Castell is know for its "Perfect Pencil", an ordinary lead pencil enclosed in a beautiful silver case that includes a sharpener and can be reused as each pencil wears down. Christian Burkert/Special to The Washington Times.

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Faber-Castell employee Leni Lang checks pencils in the final inspection / quality control section in the Faber-Castell pencil manufactory in the city of Stein near Nuremberg on Thursday, May 3, 2012. Faber-Castell is one of the world's largest manufacturers of pens, pencils, other office supplies and art supplies, as well as high-end writing instruments and luxury leather goods. Faber-Castell is know for its "Perfect Pencil", an ordinary lead pencil enclosed in a beautiful silver case that includes a sharpener and can be reused as each pencil wears down. Christian Burkert/Special to The Washington Times.

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Faber-Castell employee Jeane Pufala takes pencils out of a hanger (after drying) for the further production process in the Faber-Castell pencil manufactory in the city of Stein near Nuremberg on Thursday, May 3, 2012. Faber-Castell is one of the world's largest manufacturers of pens, pencils, other office supplies and art supplies, as well as high-end writing instruments and luxury leather goods. Faber-Castell is know for its "Perfect Pencil", an ordinary lead pencil enclosed in a beautiful silver case that includes a sharpener and can be reused as each pencil wears down. Christian Burkert/Special to The Washington Times.

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Pencil leads for the production in the Faber-Castell pencil manufactory in the city of Stein near Nuremberg on Thursday, May 3, 2012. Faber-Castell is one of the world's largest manufacturers of pens, pencils, other office supplies and art supplies, as well as high-end writing instruments and luxury leather goods. Faber-Castell is know for its "Perfect Pencil", an ordinary lead pencil enclosed in a beautiful silver case that includes a sharpener and can be reused as each pencil wears down. Christian Burkert/Special to The Washington Times.