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FILE - In this Friday, Dec. 12, 2008, file photo, rows of cars sit on the lot at the Lordstown, Ohio The families of three teenagers killed or injured in a 2006 Wisconsin car crash are suing General Motors, alleging that the company was negligent in designing its small cars and committed fraud by not disclosing facts about the defects. (AP Photo/Mark Stahl)
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Wireless World Manager John Sterling, in the store in Pierre, S.D., hooks up a hands free device to his cell phone on March 21, 2014. He says a law banning texting while driving might increase sales of blue tooth devices. A law that would make texting while driving illegal in South Dakota still awaits the governor's signature, but the state Department of Public Safety says it's already talking about a public awareness campaign. A state official says the state already has some materials to warn against texting and driving. He has been in touch with an ad agency in Sioux Falls to focus a campaign on the pending ban. The state spends about $1 million a year on safety campaigns including announcements that air on television. The ads target seat belt compliance and drunken driving. (AP Photo/Nora Hertel)
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A Chinese relative, left, of passengers aboard a missing Malaysia Airlines plane walks with a counselor at a resort in Cyberjaya, Malaysia, Friday, March 21, 2014. Search planes flying out of Australia on Friday began a difficult hunt through rough seas in one of the remotest places on Earth for objects that may be from the missing Malaysia Airlines plane. (AP Photo/Lai Seng Sin)
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A man walks past a message board for passengers aboard a missing Malaysia Airlines plane, at a shopping mall in Petaling Jaya, near Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Friday, March 21, 2014. Planes are flying out of Australia again to search for two objects detected by satellite that may be debris from the missing Malaysian Airlines Flight 370. (AP Photo/Lai Seng Sin)
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Relatives of Chinese passengers aboard missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 watch a TV news program about the missing flight after they attended a briefing meeting with Malaysian officials in a hotel ballroom in Beijing, China, Friday, March 21, 2014. (AP Photo/Alexander F. Yuan)
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This Friday, March 21, 2014 graphic provided by Australian Maritime Safety Authority (AMSA), shows an area in the southern Indian Ocean that the AMSA is concentrating its search for the missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 on. Planes are flying out of Australia again to search for two objects detected by satellite that may be debris from a missing Malaysian Airlines jetliner. (AP Photo/Australian Maritime Safety Authority)
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One of the relatives of Chinese passengers aboard missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 wipes her tears as she watches a TV news program about the missing flight after a briefing meeting with Malaysian officials in a hotel ballroom in Beijing, China, Friday, March 21, 2014. Planes are flying out of Australia again to search for two objects detected by satellite that may be debris from the missing Malaysian airliner. (AP Photo/Alexander F. Yuan)
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ADVANCE FOR USE MONDAY, MARCH 24, 2014 AT 3 A.M. AND THEREAFTER - Regina Bachman looks through papers dealing flood insurance on her property inside her home in Loveland, Ohio on Friday, March 21, 2014. Bachman bought the home in September 2013 and was initially told by the bank that flood insurance on the property would be affordable, only to find out after closing that the rates were going to increase over $7,000 more annually with new premiums for the National Flood Insurance Program. (AP Photo/Al Behrman)
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ADVANCE FOR USE MONDAY, MARCH 24, 2014 AT 3 A.M. AND THEREAFTER - Regina Bachman stands on her deck overlooking her backyard and a small creek that runs behind her home in Loveland, Ohio on Friday, March 21, 2014. Bachman bought the home in September 2013 and was initially told by the bank that flood insurance on the property would be affordable, only to find out after closing that the rates were going to increase over $7,000 more annually with new premiums for the National Flood Insurance Program. (AP Photo/Al Behrman)
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ADVANCE FOR USE MONDAY, MARCH 24, 2014 AT 3 A.M. AND THEREAFTER - Regina Bachman stands outside her home that has a small creek running behind it in Loveland, Ohio on Friday, March 21, 2014. Bachman bought the home in September 2013 and was initially told by the bank that flood insurance on the property would be affordable, only to find out after closing that the rates were going to increase over $7,000 more annually with new premiums for the National Flood Insurance Program. (AP Photo/Al Behrman)
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ADVANCE FOR USE MONDAY, MARCH 24, 2014 AT 3 A.M. AND THEREAFTER - Regina Bachman looks down at a small creek running behind her home in Loveland, Ohio on Friday, March 21, 2014. Bachman bought the home in September 2013 and was initially told by the bank that flood insurance on the property would be affordable, only to find out after closing that the rates were going to increase over $7,000 more a year with new premiums for the National Flood Insurance Program. (AP Photo/Al Behrman)
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ADVANCE FOR USE MONDAY, MARCH 24, 2014 AT 3 A.M. AND THEREAFTER - This detail of an insurance form shows the cost of flood insurance for Regina Bachman's home in Loveland, Ohio on Friday, March 21, 2014. After stretching her finances to buy a $95,000 home near a creek in September 2013, she was belatedly hit with an annual flood insurance bill of $7,900. The previous owner had paid under $700. (AP Photo/Al Behrman)
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ADVANCE FOR USE MONDAY, MARCH 24, 2014 AT 3 A.M. AND THEREAFTER - Status lights glow on a control panel for a groundwater pump in Hoquiam, Wash. on Monday, March 18, 2014. Most of Hoquiam is in a flood plain, and the mayor says despite the pumps and other measures used to reduce the town's risk of flooding, possible increases in federal flood insurance rates would adversely affect many who live here. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)
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ADVANCE FOR USE MONDAY, MARCH 24, 2014 AT 3 A.M. AND THEREAFTER - Jerry Fulbright, a maintenance worker for the city of Hoquiam, Wash., changes a gasket, Monday, March 18, 2014, on an electric generator that will power sewer and groundwater pumps in the event of a power failure. Most of Hoquiam is in a flood plain, and the mayor says despite the pumps and other measures used to reduce the town's risk of flooding, possible increases in federal flood insurance rates would adversely affect many who live here. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)
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ADVANCE FOR USE MONDAY, MARCH 24, 2014 AT 3 A.M. AND THEREAFTER - Jack Durney, mayor of Hoquiam, Wash., stands Monday, March 18, 2014 next to a pump that takes groundwater away from neighborhoods in his town, most of which is located on a flood plain. Durney says possible increases in federal flood insurance rates would adversely affect many who live in Hoquiam. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)