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Politics | Jan 1, 2013 | 1:54

U.S. fiscal cliff averted

The long-awaited approval by Congress of a compromise averting a poison pill of fiscal measures hands U.S.President Barack Obama most of the tax increases on the wealthy that he campaigned on

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