Mr. Wright said the networks have to look at the studios, their traditional suppliers of programming, as "potential competitors."

Iraq has even denied contracts to traditional suppliers who have not called for an end to sanctions.

These auto companies look to be served by their traditional suppliers.

Later in the war, cut off from traditional suppliers of manufactures, the country was forced to create its own.

"Their service and quality are generally higher than that of traditional suppliers."

Even where corporate procurement officials favor traditional white suppliers, many blacks see cronyism, rather than racism.

For this reason we will continue to work with all traditional suppliers.

For this reason, we are interested in strengthening ties with traditional suppliers and obtaining more supply routes.

So-called traditional suppliers are preferred over non-traditional, but perhaps better suppliers and that is what we want to change.

As a result, Japanese companies could continue to do business with traditional suppliers while appearing to increase their American content.