Equity 2000 is proving a deterrent to the pernicious practice of tracking and a model of educational reform.

As a result, funds can be a powerful force in protecting shareholders from weak corporate governance or pernicious managerial practices.

Our current structure directly contributes to the pernicious practice of candidates feeling no need whatsoever to identify anyone who would occupy high positions in their administrations.

He added that the Administration's goal was "to level the playing field and make the rules fair by eliminating his pernicious practice."

In a particularly pernicious practice, called "pick pays," the dealer secretly lends customers money, also at a high interest rate, to use as down payments.

This is effectively prevented by the pernicious but universal practice in schools of "tracking" students according to presumed ability levels.

Other provisions would permit registration by mail and end the pernicious practice of purging voters from the rolls simply for not voting.

I do not have the power of subpoena and cannot threaten my colleagues or fellow lexicographers with incarceration, a pernicious practice that delights some investigators.

In an essay he wrote jury nullification is a "pernicious practice".

That, in a sense, had been his most pernicious practice.