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We save and we feel that in situations like this, it makes us save even more."
• "We need someone with more financial and business experience than what Obama has," she said. "We need a president who takes one term and makes the hard decisions to put us back on the right track, and I hope it will be Romney."
• The Associated Press-GfK Poll was conducted June 14-18 by GfK Roper Public Affairs & Corporate Communications. It involved landline and cellphone interviews with
1,007 adults nationwide, including 878 registered voters. Results from the full sample have a margin of sampling error of plus or minus 4 percentage points; it is 4.2 points for registered voters.

European officials to meet but crisis fix elusive

• LUXEMBOURG (AP) -- Europe's finance ministers will meet in Luxembourg starting Thursday to discuss ways to halt the government debt crisis that is spreading across the 17-country eurozone.
• Spain's government, which has seen a worrying rise in its borrowing rates in recent weeks, will discover how much money it will need to ask from its eurozone partners in order to shore up its banks. It will receive an independent audit of the banks before its finance minister meets his counterparts later in the day.
• The ministers' meeting will try to make progress on wide-ranging solutions to the debt crisis that leaders hope to adopt by an EU summit on June 28. The leaders of Germany, France, Italy and Spain will meet in Rome on Friday.

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