And credit card companies like American Express sometimes reserve blocks of the best seats to sell to preferred customers.

In addition, Bloomingdale's had called many of its preferred customers to recommend that they wait until the tax holiday to shop.

And he assured me that I was now a preferred customer and would be treated accordingly.

Possibly, but only if I were a preferred customer deserving of a lot of time and attention.

In the example above, such a preferred customer's odds might be "Mets 7 1/4-7 3/4."

Admit no more preferred customers until further notice!

They could even sell options on the side-moving preferred customers to the head of an imaginery list.

Its borrower has to be a preferred customer, someone worth millions, whose savings can be taken if the speculation goes wrong.

She also made personal deliveries to a few preferred customers.

"I'm sorry, sir," she says, nodding in my direction, "but this man is a preferred customer."