Airlines are also adding new classes of service and changing decades-old practices.

While a decades-old practice on the film side, some TV executives say it's new to them.

"We're reversing the decades-old practice of opposing worker claims."

But it appears that many companies are following the decades-old practice of trying to maintain good relations with the administration in power by contributing.

Though sending remittances is a decades-old practice, it has only recently been tracked in the United States.

The regulators, like most of the insurance industry, knew about the decades-old practice of payments to brokers from both their customers and the insurers.

That case, Frank v. Ivy Club, ended the decades-old practice of Princeton's private undergraduate clubs, called eating clubs, of excluding women.

The two services that distribute nearly all corporate press releases in the United States ended the decades-old practice of offering media organizations 15-minute advance copies.

Marilyn Mode, the chief spokeswoman for the Police Department, would not comment on what many drivers have described as the decades-old practice of double-parking during street cleaning.