From the start, they astounded viewers with the unexpected color of their work: To emulate the effects of stained glass and daylight, they abandoned the academic practice of initial underpainting in dark earth-tones.

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There is a longstanding practice in the joint force of maintaining weapons systems in-house rather than sending them back to the original manufacturers for support, but that practice was partially abandoned over the last ten years due to lack of capacity in federal facilities as war-related repairs ramped up.

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Following through on this notion U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services abandoned the long-permitted practice of allowing a company to petition for an H-1B for the founder of the company.

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After FIFA had seemingly abandoned GLT in 2008 after freezing experiments into the practice, and preferring instead to look at using additional referees, the issue was reborn at the 2010 World Cup.

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But this practice is unlikely to endure now that BHP has abandoned the deal.

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She never spoke to Swenson about the incident, seeing her only in a formal disposition, and abandoned medical practice for medical research.

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