Generally speaking, businesses across all industries usually lack specific practices designed to prevent fraud.
There were unwritten rules and practices designed to keep it that way.
It outlawed poll taxes, literacy tests and other practices designed to prevent blacks from voting.
Total Quality Management (TQM), Management practices designed to improve the performance of organizational processes in business and industry.
Inspired by studies like these, positive psychologists have developed "interventions," or practices, designed to maximize positive emotions and have tested them on thousands of people.
"Zakhor" is the Hebrew word for "remember," a command delivered many times in the Bible, and it is possible to see Judaism itself as a technology of memory, a set of practices designed to make the past present.
Since Toon and Chrebet retired, the N.F.L., shamed into taking action after disclosures about the devastating effects of concussions, has put in place practices designed to lessen their ravaging impact.
Sheila Krumholz, the Center's executive director, told me that despite the denials coming from conservative non-profits her organization has found increasing evidence of practices designed to evade I.R.S. rules governing tax-exempt status and donor disclosure.
Other possibilities include conversion of cropland into grassland, fertilization of pastureland and forest management practices designed to increase carbon stocks -- for example, lengthening the period between harvests of a forest's timber, or promoting faster tree growth and thicker stands of trees, plantation-style.
Inspections of the plant in Blakely, Ga., by the State Agriculture Department found areas of rust that could flake into food, gaps in warehouse doors large enough for rodents to get through, unmarked spray bottles and containers and numerous violations of other practices designed to prevent food contamination.
Over the past two years, the Treasury has made the case to global financial institutions that doing business with Iran is risky business, explaining how Iran is abusing the international financial system by using front companies and deceptive financial practices designed to mask their activities.
