Japan has a decades-old policy officially forswearing weapons of mass destruction.

New Dimension to Old Claim The Forest Service announced last week that it was retreating from its decades-old policy of clear-cutting.

In February, the Commission overturned a decades-old policy and gave shareholders the right to vote on executive pay.

Some of us are striving to change this decades-old policy of neglect and destruction.

The May 1995 agreement represented a reversal in a decades-old American policy of accepting all Cuban boat people as refugees.

The action was prompted by the decision by the distilled spirits industry last year to lift a decades-old policy against television advertising.

The decisions in recent weeks are the first instances of a large number of influential companies committing themselves to reversing these decades-old policies.

The action contradicts decades-old policies under which Arab-owned land had often been expropriated to build Jewish communities.

For the commission, one problem is a decades-old policy stating that building reactors was environmentally sound because there would be a waste solution in place by 2025.

But because of 56 inches of rain since June 1, a storm named Gordon this month and decades-old water-management policies, this fall is different.