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The shops bring in about £120,000 a year for a Common Good fund, administered by Inverclyde Council and mostly used to finance Christmas decorations or the annual Gourock Highland Games.

The Latin Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences, the organization that administers the Latin Grammys, was founded in 1997 when Latin artists criticized the Grammys for excluding Latin music — and with good reason.

In the West Bank, the presence of the Israeli military and Jewish settlers means the Palestinian Authority, established after the Oslo Accords peace deals of the 1990s, administers only around 40% of the territory.

Or when a nurse administers a painful treatment to a terminally ill patient, knowing it is not likely to change the patient’s ultimate fate in any way.

The California Air Resources Board administers its own state-level greenhouse gas reporting program that in some ways exceeds that of the federal program now on the chopping block.