1.  The trial court found that her demands were not petty or unreasonable, since they involved practices she felt were racially discriminatory.

2.  And some said the court ruling might offer grounds to overturn a settlement involving sales practices by Prudential Insurance Company of America.

3.  At its essence, dynamic stability is a process of continual but relatively small change efforts that involve existing practices and business models rather than new ones.

4.  Both involve admissions practices at the University of Michigan.

5.  He is also insisting on a narrow Senate probe that would target alleged Democratic misdeeds but severely handicap any search that might involve Republican practices.

6.  In Arkansas, they said, disbarment has never been imposed in a case that did not involve a felony conviction or a matter involving the practice of law.

7.  Legal experts said the decision reflected the reluctance of U.S. courts to step into any matter involving religious practices.

8.  Only two reported a case that involved the practice, federal officials said.

9.  The first of those areas involves a practice known as upcoding, in which hospitals receive larger payments from Medicare by inflating the seriousness of illnesses they treat.

10.  The other possible type of underwriter violation involves a practice known as laddering.