We owned our own house, a car and had no other major debt to speak of.

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Lease issuers argue they own the car in name only, and exercise no more control over how it's driven than a bank that finances a car purchase. (Banks take liens, not titles, for cars.) Most states agree, but a handful of eastern ones--including Connecticut, Maine, Maryland, New York and Rhode Island--don't.

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The main reason why Britain has no plausible armoured-car candidate of its own is that, until recently, the army thought the sort it now plans to buy was no longer needed.

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However, Judge Hudson found that requiring them to carry health insurance was different, because consumers could chose whether to own a car, while the health law gives them no way to opt out of carrying health insurance.

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He had no car, telephone or even bicycle, and chopped his own firewood deep into old age.

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You cannot deduct the costs of getting to and from work, no matter if you take a bus, trolley, subway, taxi, or drive your own car.

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By contrast, almost no one could afford outright the medical bills of a serious hit-and-run car accident, or a long-term illness brought about through no fault of your own.

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Ms. MERRITT: Although I don't know that I would ever want my own mug shrink-wrapped on the bus or on the car or on the bicycle, whatever - no matter what way we're traveling.

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Even before NHTSA officials began talking about formal guidelines, car makers had adopted their own standards for designing safe infotainment systems, including a requirement that no task should require a driver to look away from the road for more than 15 seconds.

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