1.   Government figures suggest that ethnic minorities face discrimination looking for jobs.

2.   In a speech in March in Waco, Texas, for example, he said that affirmative action remained necessary because of the continued disadvantages faced by minorities.

3.   It offers a chance to explain that minorities historically have faced disadvantaged upbringing that mitigates against tough sentences, he said.

4.   Now, Southern minorities face more complex, but less graphic, encumbrances, says SRC President Charles S. Johnson.

5.   The result was that a large Serbian minority was left facing a fairly hostile Muslim-led government in a country whose existence they had never approved.

6.   Though he said he recognized that other minorities faced biases, Smith noted that the median income for Asian-Americans was higher than that of whites.

7.   This may also mean minorities have faced less programmatic pressure to leave the rolls.

8.   Ethnic Serbs from seven Balkan countries, Italy and Austria gathered Friday in Romania to discuss the problems their minorities face in the countries they live in.

9.   Leaders of Muslim and Jewish organizations found little to laugh about, warning that minorities faced persecution if the National Front gained political power.

10.   Rebels say they want an independent homeland in the north and east because the Tamil minority faces discrimination in predominately Sinhalese Sri Lanka.