1.   Of the fourteen openings, only one went to a minority candidate.

2.   The policy of the school is to give preference to minority candidates.

3.   Almost all the hard-fought races for borough president and City Council involved minority candidates, and they stimulated a healthy amount of voter interest.

4.   And even chief executives who say they will keep reaching out to women and minority candidates are distinctly ambivalent about government affirmative action programs.

5.   And so, Vermont, Colgate and other institutions have concluded that they might be better served by developing their own pool of minority candidates.

6.   As a result, minority candidates often were lost to colleges like Oberlin in Ohio and Swarthmore in Pennsylvania that outbid Union.

7.   As he went about his normal recruiting activities, Peter worked hard to identify solid minority candidates.

8.   At MIT, a school grounded in the principles of mathematics, standardized test results are minimized for minority candidates.

9.   A Stanford University political scientist familiar with Texas politics said the success of minority mayoral candidates in big cities is hard to predict.

10.   About six months before the Tigers hired Phil Garner as their manager, the commissioner clearly set out his position on interviewing minority candidates.