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State Street repays $2B in TARP funds

Jun. 17, 2009
State Street Corp. says it was among the banks to repay $2 billion it received last fall as part of the government's $700 billion bank investment program. Boston-based State Street received the money as part of the Treasury Department's Troubled Asset Relief...
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Youngsters compete in Scripps National Spelling Bee
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Contestants (L-R) Cooper Barth of West Long Branch, New Jersey, Eboseremhen Eigbe of Galloway, New Jersey, Jacob Bayly Hunter of Sante Fe, New Mexico and Massound Sharif of Albany, New York, all await their turns to compete during the 3rd round of the Scripps National Spelling Bee, May 30, 2012, in National Harbor, Maryland. UPI/Mike Theiler