A. in Public Policy from Johns Hopkins University, where he received the National Minority Leadership Fellowship from the Kellogg Foundation.
Under the Public Administration Law passed in Romania last year, if a national or ethnic minority makes up over 20% of the population of a given settlement, they have the right to street signs, schools, and official proceedings in their own language.
The lessons we learned took shape in the Meyerhoff Scholars Program, which has grown into a national model for producing minority students who earn advanced degrees in science, technology, engineering and math.
Today while similar movements continue to flourish, they are now being superseded by a new type of minority challenge to national majorities.
Mr. Carter is a minority owner in the National Basketball Association's Brooklyn Nets.
That wobbled along until 1998 when the coalition split, and the National Party carried on as a minority government.
They put some of that cash to use last August when they became minority owners of the National Football League's Miami Dolphins.
Buddhism is the country's major religion, although according to the Thailand National Statistics Office there are also minority Christian and Islamic communities.
Irish talk radio programs have been afire with discussions about the propiority of making a 66 year-old self-made tycoon of global proportions (Quinn was termed the 164th richest man in the world by Forbes in 2008) a national scapegoat, as a substantial minority of the population (especially those in border counties near his own) and some his former job holders avow.
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Fidelity National Financial will retain a 15% minority ownership position in the personal lines business.
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The process is analogous to the Rooney rule in the National Football League where teams must interview minority candidates for head positions.
McCain and Republicans have worked to have a presence with the NAACP, the National Black Chamber of Commerce and other minority advocacy groups.
Among the signatories of the letter to Majority Leader Harry Reid and Minority Leader Mitch McConnell were: former National Security Advisor William P.
"Today's acknowledgement by the Obama administration that the IRS did in fact target conservative groups in the heat of last year's national election is not enough, " said Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell.
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Richard Winder, deputy national coordinator of NHS cancer screening programmes, said a minority of British women with the disease had mastectomies.
Under a power-sharing deal signed in August, the Tutsi minority will have 40% of government and national assembly posts, compared to 60% for Hutus.
As a result of the sale process, Verizon Wireless signed agreements with seven companies, including one national carrier, five rural or regional carriers and one minority-owned firm.
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The latest statistics -- which also count the national population younger than 5 as 49.7% minority in 2011, an increase from 49% in 2010 -- portend a future of a more racially diverse America, with new and growing populations playing more important roles politically and economically in years to come, analysts say.
With an acute shortage of people who can teach in minority languages, illiteracy is much higher than the national average.
Its premier, Hernus Kriel, once served as police minister but came to shun the national arena in order to build support among the province's minority white population and the Coloured (mixed-race) voters who make up more than half its electorate.
Acting general secretary of the National Union of Teachers Christine Blower said research it had commission showed a minority of schools faced increasing difficulties from weapons brought on to school premises.
Opinion polls show the opposition Liberal-National coalition led by Tony Abbott well ahead of Labor, which formed a minority government after the last elections in 2010 with the support of independents and the Greens.
Over the weekend the rebels, who say they are protecting the area's Tutsi minority, captured a major army camp at Rumangabo and the headquarters of Virunga national park.
The home secretary emphasised that increasing the confidence of minority communities in the police was now a priority and said there would be a national conference on the issue in April.
The same poll found that a clear majority (58%) believed America had a moral obligation to help keep the peace in Kosovo, whereas only a minority (42%) was persuaded that America ought to get involved to protect its national interests.
"If a majority will back the Snowe-Jeffords compromise, then once again you will see that it is a minority keeping the country from getting it, " Clinton said during a speech Thursday to the National Council of Jewish Women.
He questions whether it will eventually lead to great programming on the concessionary minority channels, noting that it took years--and a lot of money--for National Public Radio to build up the quality program base it is known for.
David McLetchie asked the first minister whether he would agree with the comments of the president of the National Association of Schoolmasters who say education for the majority is being seriously hampered by the bad behaviour of a minority.
One would involve an impartially facilitated national dialogue to address internal Congolese issues such as army and justice reform, decentralization, electoral frameworks, immigration, minority protections, land dispute adjudication, mining codes and other divisive issues.
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