The Mexican and Chilean fandango is especially insulting given the preferential treatment their exports receive to the U.S. market.
If it were not for the suitcase scandal, the preferential treatment conferred on PDVSA flights and passengers would sure continue.
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And the preferential treatment received by the ECB on its Greek bonds will discourage other investors from holding sovereign debt.
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But the island's success is based, in part, on the preferential treatment its exports receive in EU and American markets.
The Center is concerned that the preferential treatment offered Poland and Hungary would, if enacted, cause the United States immeasurable grief in its political and financial dealings with other, indebted and destitute developing countries.
The move to clear the name of Lee Kun-hee, one of the nation's most visible business executives, drew criticism from opposition and governance groups that called it an example of the preferential treatment sometimes offered to South Korea's senior business leaders.
The idea that the wealthy or the powerful or the famous should receive preferential treatment under the law, treatment that is different from that accorded to the poor and the weak, is anathema to everything that is great and good and special about the United States.
When it did arrive, the preferential tax treatment made it all worthwhile.
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Risk: The precedent established by granting long-term rescheduling or forgiveness for a resource-rich nation such as Russia will be called intolerable, and sure to lead to as many as 30 other debtor nations demanding the same preferential treatment from Western creditors.
But as a matter of simple arithmetic, if the banks don't lose and Greece gains, there must be an additional subsidy in there somewhere from eurozone governments, either in the "high-quality assets" provided as a back up or, possibly, the promise of preferential treatment for these new bonds in the event of a default.
As part of the deal, these firms are given preferential treatment by the banks, including debt-for-equity swaps, lower interest rates, and access to a pool of some 2 trillion won in new loans and trade financing.
If there was any doubt in the minds of leaders of the developing world concerning which group of countries the communist East or the Third World are receiving preferential treatment by the industrialized West, there should be little confusion on this point in the post-summit period.
The United States should bring Nicaragua into the Caribbean Basin Initiative and the attendant preferential tariff treatment.
The amendment to the state constitution would prohibit the state from granting preferential treatment or discriminating against any individual or group on the basis of race, sex, skin color, ethnicity or national origin.
King also argued that just as the nation had given preferential treatment to soldiers returning from World War II through the GI Bill, it should do the same for blacks in the realms of jobs and education.
Section 203 of the Implementation Act sets forth certain rules for determining whether a good is an originating good for the purpose of implementing preferential tariff treatment provided for under the Agreement.
During a yes-or-no period, most candidates said they believed Eva Moskowitz, the head of a charter school chain, received preferential treatment from the Bloomberg administration.
Noun: The practice of giving unfair preferential treatment to one person or group at the expense of another.
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In contrast to other Android licensees faced with the potential of competing with preferential Motorola treatment (treatment Google denies will occur), Windows Phone licensees are competing with preferential Nokia treatment since only Nokia has the freedom to customize Windows Phone 7 as it sees fit.
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In America, where the five cities were chosen with help from exile groups, some moan about preferential treatment: the Kurds, for instance, are strong in Nashville, which has a total Iraqi population smaller than, say, the San Francisco Bay area.
Given the cosiness between Italian politicians and banks, bondholders fret that local outfits will get preferential treatment in the restructuring.
The WLGA welcomed the report and said councils had the ability to give preferential treatment to people who urgently need homes.
Spokesmen for both Mr Bush and his father, former President Bush, deny that the governor received any preferential treatment, and Mr Bush has long insisted that it was his desire to be a fighter pilot which led him to apply to the National Guard instead of opting for infantry duty in Vietnam.
On the other hand, Rosneft can be confident of preferential treatment when it comes to the distribution of new production licences and so on, and will be well-placed to pick up the remaining assets of Yukos, when the company finally winds up altogether.
"It is actually believed by most South Africans that the wealthy, mostly white people receive preferential treatment and it is for this reason that the Young Communist League cannot take seriously the claims made by Henke Pistorius, " the party said.
In the past, the Vatican has supported Mr Berlusconi, who gave preferential treatment to Catholic schools, says the BBC's David Willey in Rome.
After those visas expire, the workers could apply for U.S. citizenship but would not be given preferential treatment over others, the Bush administration said.
Moreover, why should immigrants receive preferential treatment over the descendants of those who forged this once great nation?
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An American partner would help to increase Airbus's sales in America, where Boeing, the national champion, gets preferential treatment.
Instead they claim that home teams get slightly preferential treatment from the officials, which gives them an edge in winning the game.
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