1.   And others simply say they are too busy trying to keep pace with competitors to make the extra effort to recruit minorities.

2.   Backers of the initiative say that it would leave in place affirmative action efforts that merely make special efforts to recruit minorities.

3.   Cooper Union does not aggressively recruit minorities, notes John Jay Iselin, the president, because it need not.

4.   Efforts to recruit minorities to the department have increased.

5.   He said he was planning to get a job in academia, helping to recruit minorities into science and medicine.

6.   He said he might rewrite his bill to require that the federal government recruit minorities and women to apply for jobs, hoping that will gain him broader support.

7.   It has had a tough time recruiting minorities and struggled with finding the right method for evaluating workers more equitably, a concern it notes on its Web site.

8.   Recruiting minorities is another goal, but a tough one, given some of the entrenched traditions of the South.

9.   School districts statewide are trying to bridge the disparity with programs that attract and recruit minorities, both out of high school and from mid-career, into teaching.

10.   She was selected for creating Project Diversity, a program to recruit minorities into government jobs.