The plan will require that we be smart and discriminating in our coverage of the greater metropolitan region, home to many of our most loyal readers.

"I think this plan discriminates between race and class."

But Georgia's Republican Party, which has no black elected officials to speak of, has gone to federal court to claim that the plan discriminates against blacks.

Health Secretary Louis Sullivan rejected Oregon's application to reform its Medicaid program because, he claimed, the plan would discriminate against the disabled.

The central issue that will now be appealed is whether I.B.M.'s cash-balance plan illegally discriminated against older workers on a continuing basis.

The group charges that the plan discriminates against Hispanic residents.

A plan may not discriminate in favor of highly compensated employees.

A federal judge found that I.B.M.'s plan illegally discriminated against older employees; the company is appealing the decision.

The Mayor's plan discriminates on a larger scale as well.

She argued that the plan would discriminate against single parents, who would be less likely to afford the pay reduction.