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Ed Lutgen shows off his tattoo while waiting to hear the results of the union vote on a new contract offer from Boeing, Monday, Nov. 4, 2024, at IAM District 751 Union Hall in Seattle. (AP Photo/Lindsey Wasson)

Ingrid Vaca poses for a photograph in Arlington, Va., Wednesday, Oct. 16, 2024. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

Nobel prize winner in Economics, James A. Robinson, gives an interview to the Associated Press from his home in the Hyde Park neighborhood of Chicago, Monday, Oct. 14, 2024. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)

A worker sorts shrimps at a farm in Kebumen, Centra Java, Indonesia, Tuesday, Sept. 24, 2024. (AP Photo/Dita Alangkara)

An Airbus A321-253 XLR flies, at the Farnborough International Air Show in Farnborough, England, Monday, July 22, 2024. (AP Photo/Alberto Pezzali)

The Bed Bath & Beyond corporate headquarters building stands in Union, N.J., Wednesday, June 5, 2024. An Associated Press analysis found the number of publicly-traded “zombie” companies — those so laden with debt they're struggling to pay even the interest on their loans — has soared to nearly 7,000 around the world, including 2,000 in the United States. (AP Photo/Stefan Jeremiah)