1.   Cable said the casino gives hiring preference to Kickapoo Indians but hires the most qualified person for each job.

2.   Gantt denied it, but the ads fed fears that qualified whites were being denied jobs because of racial hiring preferences.

3.   It is even more remarkable at a time when states like California, Texas and Washington have ended hiring preferences in public higher education.

4.   She argued with an African-American man about a state ballot initiative she favors that would end education and hiring preferences for minorities and women.

5.   Some Canadian journalists and fans felt their citizens were entitled to a hiring preference.

6.   The existing labor contract between GM and the UAW gives hiring preference to unemployed UAW workers elsewhere.

7.   They are given hiring preference at the casino and other tribal enterprises, meaning that every member who wants a job has one, Candelaria said.

8.   In the work force, where native-born blacks are losing jobs to recent immigrants, employers indicated blacks rank low on their hiring preference charts.