Like Japanese using their newly accepted JTB card who brought back bags of Kent cigarettes, Coach bags, Dunlop golf clubs and Rolex watches in the pioneer days of Japanese tourism to the U.S. in the early 1980s, the cachet for Chinese visitors of appearing wealthy and successful to family, friends, and work colleagues is definitely also a factor.
K. Rowling wrote her first book on the back of old tea bags and was turned down by 12 publishers before Harry Potter got picked up.
Heading back to pack our bags beneath those same glowering ancestors (who somehow now look less forbidding) we consider how the misadventure of an ill-timed traffic jam on the Bosphorus Bridge brought us to this hidden island paradise.
Building superintendents and porters often help throw bags into the back of the truck.
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The biggest environmental cost of food transport comes, not from international shipping, but driving to and from the supermarket, often with just a couple of carrier bags in the back of the car.
"Jeep now seems to want to appeal to the people who go to the mall, throw a bunch of shopping bags in the back, drive home and read a book, " said Silecchia, a student and information technology worker in Georgia.
Though the technique dates back to the 1970s, the bags have become more prevalent and their contents more elaborate in recent years.
They must deposit their life jackets on the shore when landing, in the white canvas bags provided, and put them back on when departing.
But when you rip back the shock value of dresses made with garbage bags, others held together by safety pins or staples, skirts with strategic slashes and T-shirts fronted with provocative sayings, punk largely stood on the principles of individuality and authenticity, both so greatly valued in a DIY, Internet-savvy culture.
Compliment the coffee itself (from San Rafael's excellent Equator) and two bags of beans will be waiting for you back home.
He bags his quarry in a Ziploc, and hauls it back to his lab at Montana State University.
Catriona Spence, 24, a city centre restaurant manager, said she had been forced to put 10 bags of rubbish, which had not been uplifted, back off the street and into a storeroom.
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Back-to-school shopping often consisted of sifting through black trash bags of hand-me-downs.
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Once back home in Modbury, South Devon, Hosking set about ridding her town of the bags, determined that it would no longer contribute to the crisis.
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