The United States and Western European countries gave Romania large loans and trading privileges, allowing it to join GATT in 1971 and the I.M.F. a year later, the first Eastern European country to do so.
Described as a system of "floating privileges," allowing outside companies to use needed elements of IBM's 40,000-patent portfolio for a flat yearly fee, IBM said this legal protection would be akin to "purchasing a fire insurance policy".
Drop-in privileges allow members to participate in special activities at designated times.
Kasparov, whose privilege allowed him to stay at the Regency Hotel in New York and the St. James Club in Paris, had become a refugee.
On a 7-to-3 party-line vote, Democrats on the Commercial and Administrative Law Subcommittee dismissed the White House contention that President Bush's claim of executive privilege allowed Mr. Bolten to refuse to give Congress subpoenaed documents relating to the ouster of federal prosecutors.
For Clancy a white, tenure-track professor—"privilege allowed me to be radical and loud and angry in a way that I think, looking back, I've learned is not as possible for people with different identities".
The franking privilege allowed members of Congress to send mail at the government's expense.
Ramachandran received special permission to go by car to shoot the film in exotic locations in Shimla; a privilege allowed only to the governor of the state.
In other words, Christian privilege allowed many Christians to understand heterosexual marriage as normative, natural, and inevitable and therefore same sex marriage was an impossibility because it would have been unnatural, invisible, and outside the conceivable norm.
