• 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.

    BBC: Hungarians unwanted in Romania census

  • 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.

    FORBES: Ireland's Richest Man In Jail: The Collapse Of Celtic Dreams Continues

  • 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.

    CNN: Our 'outrageous dream': Bringing diversity to science

  • Mr. Carter is a minority owner in the National Basketball Association's Brooklyn Nets.

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  • Fidelity National Financial will retain a 15% minority ownership position in the personal lines business.

    FORBES: Fidelity National Financial Sells 85% Stake to WT Holdings

  • That wobbled along until 1998 when the coalition split, and the National Party carried on as a minority government.

    ECONOMIST: New Zealand

  • Today while similar movements continue to flourish, they are now being superseded by a new type of minority challenge to national majorities.

    CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Islam and the nation-state

  • Richard Winder, deputy national coordinator of NHS cancer screening programmes, said a minority of British women with the disease had mastectomies.

    BBC: Screening 'reduces breast removals'

  • McCain and Republicans have worked to have a presence with the NAACP, the National Black Chamber of Commerce and other minority advocacy groups.

    CNN: GOP lacks diversity, says it pushes outreach

  • A. in Public Policy from Johns Hopkins University, where he received the National Minority Leadership Fellowship from the Kellogg Foundation.

    WHITEHOUSE: THE WHITE HOUSE

  • 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.

    BBC: School knife crime 'overplayed'

  • 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.

    BBC: Senior Australia ministers Evans and Roxon resign

  • 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.

    BBC: UN joins battle with Congo rebels

  • 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.

    ECONOMIST: A tragedy and a shame

  • 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.

    ECONOMIST: The late march on Kosovo

  • 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.

    BBC: NEWS | Africa | Burundi peace poll postponed

  • "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.

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  • 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.

    FORBES: XM-Sirius: A Necessary Attraction

  • 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.

    BBC: Photo of Scottish flag

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