1.   An accounting-industry task force is currently trying to tighten up industry practices.

2.   And lawmakers on Capitol Hill and California are stepping up their scrutiny of various industry practices, including whether contracts are unfair to musicians.

3.   As a columnist and reporter covering Wall Street, I am often writing about brokers behaving badly or industry practices that harm investors.

4.   Aviation experts have long recognized that progress in this field is slow, the result of a cumbersome regulatory system and various industry practices.

5.   Atena spokesman Bobby Pena denied that Aetna had misled members or violated the law or standard industry practice.

6.   Bliley is best known for announcing when he took over the Commerce Committee chairmanship that there would be no more hearings into tobacco industry practices.

7.   All new semiconductor designs build on earlier, patented technology, so rather than getting bogged down in endless court cases two industry practices emerged.

8.   Bush has little sympathy for federal regulators who try to protect the public against predatory industry practices.

9.   But in setting up its competitive bidding process last December, the Lottery went against industry practice by making the supplier of mainframes the prime contractor.

10.   But industry practices quickly went against his grain.