71.   Investigators are probing whether Nomura gave VIP account holders special treatment such as first crack at hard-to-get securities like convertible bonds.

72.   It calls for an end to state and local government programs that give preferential treatment based on race or gender in hiring, contracting and college admissions.

73.   It marks the end of the double standard under which Cuban immigrants were given preferential treatment over others who tried to reach American shores.

74.   It also contains an exemption for religious organizations and prohibits employers from giving special treatment or adopting quotas for gays and lesbians.

75.   It remained unclear what further treatment Strawberry would be given, but it is likely to include chemotherapy, oncologists said.

76.   It also gives preferential treatment to Malays in state bank loans, property sales, university admission and equity ownership.

77.   It said air traffic controllers should give special treatment to pilots of such planes to keep them out of holding patterns where ice might build up.

78.   Likins said that the bill creates more problems than it solves, and that it wrongly assumes that affirmative action programs give preferential treatment to minority and female applicants.

79.   Medical observers say cancer patients are given the treatments they need, like chemotherapy or radiation, but are told that their tumors are benign.

80.   Mary has been given different treatment from that accorded George P. Bush, the nephew of presidential nominee George W. Bush.