When Lynch sticks with his straightforward view of how things are done in Hollywood, the film briefly comes alive as a trenchant, nuanced report from the front.

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As an owner of a small regional brokerage firm I can report from the front lines that a primary driver of the demise of the local brokerage firm is a lack of economies of scale to remain competitive.

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And according to the latest report from the Federal Election Commission, he is in better financial shape than John McCain, once the front-runner.

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Meanwhile, Aaron Brown and Larry King report from New York's Times Square in front of the state-of-the-art, 96-screen Nasdaq video wall, presenting real-time vote information, exit polls and analysis of key state races across the country.

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Most everyone took heart from an upbeat jobs report Friday, but news on the housing front showed there is a long way to go, despite record low rates.

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She implied at the time that her apology for the targeting, conveniently timed to front-run the Treasury IG report, was a spontaneous answer to a surprise question from the audience.

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