He and other returnees believe that India remains too reliant on personal relationships, decisions and whims, and they have resolved to build American-style systems.

The Saslaw group is recommending an American-style system of self-regulation and oversight, but it may take years to put it into place.

Health insurers are changing the formula by which they cover treatment, moving toward the American-style system that pays a flat fee based on the diagnosis.

He stated that British-style parliamentary democracy and the American-style presidential system had both failed in Nigeria because they were not comatible with these local cultures.

So the company replaced the recording with an American-style system in which the caller heard only ringing.

But others see it as an attack on a tradition that has produced scholars of high quality as well as a slide into an American-style system.

For three seasons the cream of the north and the south followed an American-style system with London Towers invincible in the South.

Two-thirds of the voters chose to retain the American-style system implanted here in 1889 - a presidential republic.

As Japan prepares to hold a general election on Nov. 9, there is breathless talk here of moving toward an American-style two-party system.

In effect it protects the British tradition of parliamentary supremacy under the American-style system of written constitutional rights and strong courts introduced in 1982.