Stores also hold clothes off the racks for favored clients until a sale begins.

One method is the illegal practice of late trading: managers let favored clients buy shares after hours.

A regular household activity he recalls involved his mother's straightening a few favored clients' hair.

Wall Street, where he is a favored client, remains supportive, though wary.

This second stage is usually done mostly through computerized systems, though brokers will often phone up their favored clients to advise them of the opportunity.

Another focus for the proposed rules would be the allocation of stock by banks to favored corporate clients.

The Government also ordered them to stop compensating favored clients for stock market losses.

Some travel agencies acted on their own to reimburse favored clients.

"I wouldn't own a share," he told a favored client in an e-mail message.

Lawyers commonly serve on the boards of their favored clients.