Both women and minority ethnic staff are currently under-represented at director and senior manager level.

Also, Mr. Helms now gets to name the minority staff on the committee.

But nearly 70 percent of the black journalists surveyed said their managers were not committed to retaining and promoting minority staff.

These are but two examples of contradictions in the process of what should be earnest searches for minority professional staff in suburban school districts.

It has experienced investigators on both its majority and minority staffs.

He acknowledged that it was having difficulties in retaining minority staff and outlined plans towards solving these problems.

The minority staff has now pored over thousands of pages of constitutional history, legal articles and testimony.

All material submitted to the Commission is reviewed by both the majority and minority staff before an advisory is issued.

Mr. Ward has headed the minority staff for about two years and has been a chief mover of the Dodd version.

One of his strips reportedly claims that 20 ethnic minority staff were fired because "Sarah just isn't comfortable in the presence of dark-skinned people".