11.   Barbash said the SEC has begun to increase its examination of sales practices during its inspections of mutual fund companies.

12.   Because of their previous violations, the sales practices of Hyundai and LG Semicon are already reviewed by the U.S. annually.

13.   A department spokesman said special investigations of sales practices were under way at several other companies, which he declined to name.

14.   According to the SEC complaint, brokers routinely used high-pressure sales practices, and earned substantially higher commissions for selling stocks in which Olde made a market.

15.   All the suits contend the company used deceptive sales practices.

16.   Broadly, they involve a deceptive sales practice known as churning and policies that include so-called vanishing premiums.

17.   Burnam also called on the Texas Department of Insurance to investigate the sales practices of nine companies.

18.   But diplomats also said there was support for the U.S. position that Japanese regulations and auto sales practices made it difficult for foreign manufacturers to compete on equal terms.

19.   By some accounts, one victim of such state company sales practices was the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development.

20.   California formed a task force to investigate the sales practices of the insurer.