41.   The board had let the white teacher go while retaining a black teacher of equal seniority as part of an effort to preserve racial diversity in its work force.

42.   The board concludes that both teachers are equally qualified but says it decided to retain Ms. Williams in the interest of racial diversity.

43.   The case in question involves the dismissal of a white teacher, Sharon Taxman, by the Piscataway school board to promote racial diversity in its business education department.

44.   The Democratic National Committee requires each state to divide its delegation evenly between men and women, and it asks each state to promote racial diversity.

45.   The district said it acted to promote racial diversity among its staff, but the teacher said the layoff was race-based discrimination.

46.   The dominant theme of this press tour was racial diversity, or lack thereof, in the new fall shows.

47.   The regents have a good idea of what effect an admissions policy based strictly on grades and test scores would have on racial diversity throughout the university system.

48.   The Piscataway Township School Board says the action sought to promote racial diversity among its staff.

49.   The Supreme Court may still decide that racial diversity is a sufficiently compelling need to justify affirmative action in education.

50.   The school board fired a white teacher and kept her black colleague solely to bolster racial diversity on the high school faculty.