11.   In his speech to the convention, Powell said the party of Abraham Lincoln should always work to help minorities.

12.   It is hard to balance the rights of the majority while helping minorities.

13.   Others feel that the government should not make any special effort to help minorities, because they should help themselves.

14.   Supporters of affirmative action charged Monday that those seeking to undo programs intended to help minorities and women are looking for scapegoats and engaging in partisan politics.

15.   Thomas did not attempt to justify the logic of his disdain for affirmative action programs that help minorities and from which he himself had benefited.

16.   Some traditional groups offer Paige cautious praise for helping minorities.

17.   These programs were designed to help minority or women-owned businesses compete on an equal footing with other companies in bidding for government contracts.

18.   First of all, the former general is considered a moderate -- favoring, for example, abortion rights, gun control and programs designed to help racial minorities.

19.   The rights groups said scrutiny would have helped Muslim minorities in particular.