Quinn Group chief executive Liam McCaffrey told the Irish Times on Friday that the family's ability to pay back the money it owes Anglo-Irish was dependent on a "very robust" Quinn Insurance group, either through "cash-flow or disposal".

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They may well be social insurance schemes, but to see this group as monolithically dependent is wrong headed, misguided, and ultimately self-destructive for Governor Romney.

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Rick Santorum is among a group of coal-state politicians who argues that coal can make the U.S. less dependent on imported oil.

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