This policy provides preferential treatment to Malays in business, jobs, education, scholarships and access to loans, assisted saving and housing.
America should begin to acknowledge its culpability in supporting oppressive regimes in the Middle East and forge instead a consistent policy of preferential treatment for governments progressing toward democracy.
One of National Review's brightest young stars, Garry Wills, theorized that Goldwater might compensate for his controversial vote against the 1964 Civil Rights Act if he set forth his own vision of racial justice, "encouraging private initiative where laws have not reached or cannot" — for instance by adopting a "policy of preferential hiring," an idea that prefigured affirmative action.
Prior to his appointment as prime minister on April 3rd, Mr Najib had hinted to the foreign press that he intended to introduce gradual reforms to the government's policy of preferential treatment for ethnic Malays, who make up some 60% of the country's population, as part of wider efforts to restructure the economy.
The World Health Organization should consider revising its policy of preferential intradermal vaccination to allow national immunisation programmes to choose percutaneous vaccination if that is more practical.
The new case will provide an early test of the Bush administration's willingness to defend federal policies on preferential treatment for groups that have suffered racial or sexual discrimination.
India is not impervious to the pressures the United States faces as it walks the fiscal cliff, tries to revive its economy, addresses persisting unemployment, and the inevitable demands from its businessmen and people that the US government pursue policies for preferential domestic production and services to protect jobs.
All issues about which minority elites and people care, such as group equality, political rights, policies for preferential opportunities, protection for cultures, do contain political meanings.
"Legacy" policies -- preferential treatment of children of alumni -- are the quintessential example of the "old boys network".
These policies provide preferential treatment to bumiputera in employment, education, scholarships, business, and access to cheaper housing and assisted savings.
