Washington DC was the only bright spot, gaining 0.3% from November and 4.1% from December 2009. (Read Price Stability In 75% Of U.S. Metro Areas By Year-End, Double-Dip Looms).

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Maybe attesting to increasingly dynamic labor markets, a key difference between U.S. and, for example, German and Japanese labor markets, the data seem to show a U.S. economy on the rise. (Read Price Stability In 75% of US. Metro Areas By Year-End, Double-Dip Looms).

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Jones, the lawyer who smuggled the letter for King, stopped wondering about King's emotional stability after he sat down to read a typed-up version of King's notes.

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