61.   On Thursday, the University of California regents are scheduled to vote on whether to end enrollment policies that give preference based on race or gender.

62.   Only in rare cases have Japanese universities or high schools given preference to burakumin, and when they have, buraku students have sometimes complained that they were unprepared.

63.   Opponents insist all affirmative action programs give unfair preferences to less qualified minorities.

64.   Opponents say the United States should not give preference to wealthy individuals, particularly when efforts are underway to reduce the number of legal immigrants.

65.   Other companies try to be more egalitarian and give preference to employees who worked on previous holidays.

66.   Preference will be given to companies which make high-technology products or which export their merchandise.

67.   Second, they suggest that married couples rather than single-parent families be given preference for scarce openings in public housing and Head Start.

68.   Should preference be given to people on the basis of income rather than race?

69.   Siblings of enrolled students are given preference.

70.   Similar software offered by other vendors, he said, allows agents to give preference to the flights of any airline, or to those of several different airlines.