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Published 11/25/2008 by Michael D. Shear and Peter Slevin at Wash Post Obama Administration
President-elect Barack Obama sought to assert his authority over the country's deepening financial crisis yesterday, unveiling his economic team and making it clear that he will not wait until Inauguration Day to set his plans for recovery in motion.
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