The announcement, which immediately brought new criticism of the administration's detention practices, included few details.
Other reportedly reliable practices included pithing — stabbing a fish in its little-bitty brain — and decapitation.
And even a growing share of the jobs the company filled in private practices included income guarantees from hospitals.
He said other countries with such practices included the US, Canada, Britain, France, New Zealand, Slovakia, Morocco, Russia, Somalia and India.
One large collection of techniques, known as bodywork or body practices, included methods like Ida Rolf's Structural Integration and Charlotte Selver's Sensory Awareness.
Those practices included selling interests in the company's for-profit hospital to the doctors who admitted patients to them, which had raised suspicions of improper kickbacks.
The special committee that looked into the options practices included an outside director who was responsible for handing out some of the options during the period in question.
Their religious practices included, among others, animal sacrifice, a reverence for fire, and the drinking of the juice of the haoma plant, a natural intoxicant.
He said the company's usual practices included lobbying and charitable donations, often in areas where it operated facilities or planned to.
Pastoral farmers' adaptation practices included destocking, supplementation and mobility.
Traditional practices included pushing on a woman's belly during delivery.
