At these institutions, children of wealthy families, often with mediocre academic skills, are given preference for admission.
The proposals promise that members of the chorus and orchestra rosters would be given preference for future jobs.
Through affirmative action plans, pushed by the federal government, they are being given preference for places in colleges and universities, apprenticeships, jobs, welfare payments, and free lunches.
The Department of Justice should give preference for grants to local police departments in states with functioning license-issuing authorities, which report the names of decertified officers to the National Decertification Index (NDI).
With a target resident pool of middle- and lower-income buyers, most of the units were awarded by lottery; current residents of Longwood and Hunts Point were given preference for half.
Upper Lab, short for the Lab School for Collaborative Studies, offers most of its high school seats to students moving on from the Lab Middle School, then gives preference for its remaining seats to children from District 2, which covers the Upper East Side and much of downtown Manhattan.
And with only modest government funds we could foster public-private partnerships to rebuild this country's often crumbling infrastructure, refashion immigration policy to give preference for visas and green cards to many more immigrants with advanced degrees and needed skills, and above all reduce long-term entitlement obligations, cutting the ratio of public debt to G.D.P.
Sir Robin wants to give preference for social housing to people in jobs; he thinks that the state should not provide houses with more than three bedrooms to benefit recipients (a view which would find sympathy among many voters, but not necessarily among South Asians, who tend to have large families); he wants the council to help young people buy property.
The provision under scrutiny designates six "priority populations" that are to be given preference for the affordable housing: Darien residents who volunteer as first responders; Darien public employees; Darien residents who work in town; Darien residents; nonresidents who work in Darien; and former residents who want to move back.
