Sentence examples for favored customers from inspiring English sources

Some mutual funds allowed favored customers to trade mutual funds based on stale prices.

[C6.] Airlines Speed Favored Customers Airlines continue to find ways to speed favored customers to their flights, despite new security rules.

Like many popular restaurants, Lotus keeps a private reservation line for its backers and favored customers.

In a faint echo of places like Las Vegas, parlor bosses sometimes treat their favored customers to dinners, spa visits and sessions in karaoke bars.

Medicaid, the state-federal health insurance program for the poor, requires drug makers to pay quarterly rebates to states to account for discounts drug companies give to favored customers.

The attorney general and securities regulators have been examining whether brokers or mutual fund executives allowed favored customers to buy or sell mutual fund shares at prices not available to the public.

Because most negotiators understand such appeals to fairness, monetary benchmarks, such as "most favored nation" or "most favored customer" clauses in business contracts, can be an effective means of holding firm on price and closing a negotiation.

She also infuses the dining room with a warm graciousness, stopping here to mother a favored customer, or there to initiate a newcomer to her specialties.

BET YOU DIDN'T KNOW THIS It is believed this vehicle was built at Henry Ford's request for a friend or favored customer.

Under terms of the settlement, Apple and the publishers agreed to immediately end their preferred agency agreements, the legal pacts that contained "most favored customer" clauses effectively blocking sales to price discounters.

News of the profits was overshadowed by the government's charges that Goldman Sachs created securities that were secretly designed to fail, so that a favored customer could bet against them.