As of this month, however, about 2 million erstwhile Bank of America mortgage customers are scrambling to figure out their status after the bank sold servicing rights to their accounts to a company called Nationstar Mortgage.
Those who hoped that Delphi could somehow squeeze a deathbed concession out of its unions (mainly the United Auto Workers)—or indeed its main customer and erstwhile parent, General Motors GMM)—were disappointed but cannot have been surprised.
Better yet, an erstwhile Digital One Rate customer cant take his $199 Nokia 6160 to BellSouth.
(British Airways, an erstwhile enthusiast, is now unlikely to be an early customer, as it is busy thinking about downsizing).
But Mandelson, ever the coolest of customers, brazenly returned to Corfu – to stay, once again, with Osborne's erstwhile chum, Nat Rothschild, of the banking clan.
American Airlines' erstwhile chairman C.R. Smith launched the first VIP airport lounge in 1936 to reward his best customers and supporters, upon whom he bestowed the honorific "Admirals".
This meant that PC vendors like Dell, the erstwhile Gateway, and even more boutique shops were in the business of selling "Wintel" PCs to customers who may have just wanted Windows but who also had to buy Intel in order to get it.
But given that some of Safeway's erstwhile competitors failed, in part because they offered substandard service, "it also hurts to some degree in that customers may confuse what we're doing with what the others did," he said.
"The erstwhile Spurs 'striker'?
Forbidden Phrases: "erstwhile" (use "onetime" instead).
