51.   The vote is a challenge to the participatory management practices that Toyota Motor Manufacturing Inc. has pioneered, analysts say.

52.   The year before, he earned half that, though he says his management practices were identical.

53.   They agreed to shed marginal businesses and overhaul management practices.

54.   They are introducing modern management practices that had been foreign to Irish workplaces.

55.   They have borrowed Japanese management practices, which emphasize teamwork and job flexibility on the factory floor as a way to improve quality.

56.   This financial frontier is already littered with the wreckage of small lenders that have been severely battered or crippled the last year by bad loans and dubious management practices.

57.   This third edition of the original bestseller has updated sections on new technology, laws, management practices and regulatory agencies that affect the real estate business.

58.   To begin adapting to the new fiscal environment, the mayor last summer dispatched two aides to other cities, including Baltimore, to study management practices.

59.   Until recently, anyone reading about management practices, as opposed to watching real managers at work, might have concluded that middle managers are doomed to extinction.

60.   Under Welch, GE has become a gold standard for management practices.