So to some extent we can view an insurance company as actually a large investment fund: investing that float for however long the company gets to keep it.

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The plan worked to an extent, but the sales of the improved Saabs never grew large enough to create a positive dollar return for GM.

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Mr. WITTE: Well, it's an interesting question because FEMA is an agency, obviously, that is under attack right now, very heavily criticized, and it's an agency that is being criticized in large part because the agency has been hollowed out, to a certain extent.

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