1.   A bill he proposed giving veterans special preference for state educational loans and grants was signed into law.

2.   Candy gets her hair washed and groomed and has special preferences.

3.   Do ad agencies that pay Pile for such searches get special preference in reviews?

4.   In the early days of special preferences for women and minorities, companies aimed merely to make their numbers look good in reports to the government.

5.   Increasingly, groups of people include a few with special preferences.

6.   It also would have prohibited quotas or special preferences for gay and lesbian workers.

7.   Luther Tweeten, an agriculture economist at Ohio State University, said special preferences for high-income farmers raise questions of equity.

8.   Murdoch, in an interview from Australia, where he has been holding a month-long management retreat, said he was not seeking any special preferences.

9.   Over the years, polls have shown a simmering dissatisfaction among white voters with programs that give people special preferences based on race or gender.

10.   Republican majority leader Richard Armey of Texas bluntly attacked the idea of special preferences for minorities.