91.   The report also states that military veterans are given preference.

92.   There are hundreds of awards amd scholarships that give preference to students for reasons that have nothing to do with merit or financial need.

93.   They asserted that they were denied admission because affirmative action policies gave unfair preferences to less-qualified, minority applicants.

94.   To be sure, some selective universities add to the test gap by giving preference to minority applicants.

95.   To balance those views, the district has adopted a vague proposal that envisions giving some preference to students who live within a certain distance of each school.

96.   Today, critics contend that affirmative action gives preferences to minorities and women while creating quotas unfair to white men.

97.   True, but on balance it would give grazing preference over all other uses, including conservation and fishing.

98.   Under an obscure law called the Ramspeck Act, congressional employees who lose their jobs in an election are given preference in federal hiring.

99.   What opponents refuse to acknowledge is that it is impossible to give a preference to members of one group without taking away a right from members of another.

100.   WXEL points out that the FCC gives no preference to who asked first.