The consortium companies would be responsible for administering the program and for supplying information to members about the comparative benefits of the participating providers.

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There would be some efficiency and cost savings as the government got out of the business of administering the program and processing payments for gasoline blenders for the ethanol they use.

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The drive- thru vaccinations have already been given this flu season in Maryland, Alabama, and Connecticut, after an earlier drive- through program pilot program in 2012 designed to test emergency preparedness for administering flu vaccines in Alabama, Georgia, Connecticut, Virginia, Arizona, Kansas and California.

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They include Abdulwahab Alkebsi, a former executive director of the Islamic Institute and a spokesman for the AMC who is now a program director for the National Endowment for Democracy, where he is responsible for administering millions of dollars in grant money for Iraq.

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