She pretended to be Hispanic because most stations "only wanted to hire minorities."

On the other hand, the report said, "minorities hire minorities."

The court rejected the arguments, ruling that the policy brought undue pressure on companies to hire minorities.

The communications agency found that the church group had violated its regulations by not making adequate efforts to hire minorities.

In the 1970's, when the government first started putting pressure on companies to hire minorities, qualified blacks could command huge salaries, often beyond their skills.

Also, radio stations are required to implement an affirmative action program in order to hire more women and minorities.

The study comes against a backdrop of sporadic civil rights lawsuits that forced the department to aggressively hire women and minorities in the 1980's.

Mr. Cuomo said he would make an effort to hire women and minorities in his office.

But before 1986, when some of the bank's records were apparently destroyed, it hired fewer minorities and women than the Koch administration as a whole.

A summer session began to teach students who were behind and slowly the school hired more minorities to teach.