Part of the problem may have been Detroit's longtime practice of conditioning customers to believe that more cylinders means more performance.

The Year 2000 problem stems from the longtime practice of using just two digits to represent the year in computer dates, like 99 for 1999.

Test program made formal a longtime practice of cab-sharing from Upper East Side.

Dr. Bernstein had a longtime private practice in Manhattan until she retired a year ago because of illness.

The new approach, it seems, is a striking departure from Microsoft's longtime practice of bundling more and more software features into its big integrated products.

In a nutshell, the new law ends the longtime practice of deducting writing and research expenses as they are incurred each year.

They may have even agreed to end the longtime practice of having their local parking tickets fixed.

No one could argue, though, that Weil's longtime practice of self-starvation hadn't, at the very least, contributed to her early death.

Nevertheless, Manager Sparky Anderson has followed his longtime practice just in case.

The Fire Department said the change simply formalized a longtime practice: fire trucks rarely stopped at red lights.