Under current practice, the heavily edited minutes are only issued six weeks after each meeting.

Under current practice, the companies pay doctors fees to carry out tests on drugs.

Under current practice, most public employers do not report such costs until they pay for the promised benefits, often many years after employees have retired.

Under present practice convertible debt is usually reported as a liability.

Under current practice, the President must accept or reject all of a bill passed by Congress.

Under current practice, the proceeds of life insurance paid after a person's death are tax-free.

Under current practice, they have physicals only once, in the off season.

Under past practice, the campaign would bill each journalist $500.

Also under current practice, rents would not rise more than 6 percent a year.

Otherwise, companies would simply treat the fines, about $500 under current practice, as a cost of doing business, he said.