As a director of the Cablecommunication Resource Center in Washington in the early 1970's, he also researched minority enterprises' opportunities in the emerging cable television industry.

It attempts to begin formal research and policy analysis of rural conditions pertaining to minority enterprise in response to the Rural Development Initiative.

And since many of the licenses are reserved for small businesses, minority enterprises and rural companies, it also gives a chance for smaller niche players to develop particular cities or regions.

The businesses recognized through the MED Week awards program represent just a few of our nation's brightest and most innovative minority enterprises.

This followed a court decision outlawing a Philadelphia law that set aside a share of its contracts for minority enterprises.

A. We need a mechanism for banks and other financial institutions to sell off their loans to minority enterprises, instead of waiting for them to mature before they can lend more money.

"I think it is extremely important that we support minority enterprises," he said on the NBC-TV program "News Forum."

Government "set asides" of contracts for minority enterprises have been corrupted by Potemkin partnerships.

John Mariotta, of Hispanic background, latched on to the rhetoric of self-reliance and posed as a minority enterprise dedicated to providing jobs and economic revitalization to a depressed area.

And another reason: This despicable company has undermined the noble intentions of "minority enterprise."