1.  A resolution that would have applied this practice to the commission was withdrawn last week only when some of these countries calculated how it might be used against them.

2.  It applies the practices of corporate America to an industry still dominated by not-for-profit institutions.

3.  Now, oddly, this same practice is being applied to Israel.

4.  The same practice will be applied to nuclear power plants Russia has agreed to build in China and India, he said.