Nominally, CMS is an U.S. company -- and therefore appears to be benefiting from the preferred consideration the Kuwaitis pledged to give U.S. enterprises in reconstructing their ravaged country.

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CMS's Consumers Energy unit has 626 miles of cast- and wrought-iron pipeline in its gas system, or about 2.4 percent of the utility's total distribution system.

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Honda's Collision Mitigation Brake System (CMS), for example, uses a forward-looking millimetre-wave radar to scan the road ahead.

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But neither CMS nor the CBO include in their 10-year projections the program's future liabilities.

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The cards could allow those recipients who do have drug coverage to get more drugs for the same amount of money, or perhaps not reach their out-of-pocket limits as quickly, said a spokesman for HHS's Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), the agency that administers Medicare.

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