1.   Affirmative action can mean giving blacks and other minorities preference in competition for jobs, contracts or admission to colleges.

2.   Clearly, mine are minority preferences.

3.   His administration was overwhelmed by a massive conservative revolt against taxes, militant unions, radical feminists, welfare queens and minority preferences.

4.   Metro Broadcasting upheld a minority preference in the awarding of broadcast licenses.

5.   Supporters of minority preferences devised the plan in response to challenges to affirmative action programs.

6.   This is the season when resentment over minority preferences and low test scores runs deepest, but this month is extraordinary.

7.   A federal judge issued a temporary restraining order Wednesday that would keep California from eliminating a law that gives minorities preference in university admissions and jobs.