Alas, the entire vehicle had been pre-festooned with an assortment of used coffee cups, tissues and Dorito crumbs.
Then they would quickly rebury themselves into their handheld gadgets, their newspapers and the bottom of their coffee cups.
What to make of this fundamental shift away from pints to coffee cups?
One of the latest additions to its pool of private label brands is Green Mountain Coffee coffee cups.
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Beggars are common enough in European cities, so to the guys holding out cut off coffee cups, I can walk by unmoved.
"There's a bunch of coffee cups out, and coffee made, " Angeli said.
Last thing at night, her parents still rinsed out the coffee cups, plumped up the cushions on the sofa, unplugged the television.
It's had coffee cups placed on it and it's got cigarette burns.
Zhou Hong, the official IKEA card swiper, says she typically hands out an average of 500 coffee cups each time the group meets.
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Lenovo has committed to packaging reduction, recently reducing packaging material by 20 percent of yearly volume, saving an additional 10 paper coffee cups per box shipped.
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Empty coffee cups dot the tables, as does spilled soda.
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But by any objective measure (cc: Nate Silver) writing trite phrases on thousands of coffee cups is going to rank quite low in the annals of political persuasion.
That pound makes more cups of coffee than the entire box of K-Cups.
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This should create approximately 300g of dried coffee beans to make around 50 cups of Cornish coffee.
Cafes sell steaming coffee in stylish cups, civil servants dutifully go to work, and children are sitting their exams.
But back to our senior seminar, where we were to choose our paths, and Anne Marie's path was lids those plastic travel lids you put on your coffee and soda cups.
Two well-heeled Japanese housewives murmur over their cups of coffee, while Mozart plays in the background.
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But one 24-hour Sudafed, two Advils and three cups of coffee later, I felt perky.
That includes newspapers and magazines, lunches, cups of coffee and drinks in the pub.
The Monster spokeswoman said that on a per-ounce basis, Monster contains half the caffeine of some cups of coffee.
Second, the researchers failed to collect information on the number of cups of coffee consumed per day by participants.
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Haefner has heard stories of candidates knocking over cups of coffee, glasses of water and stacks of paper with wild, windmill-like hand gestures.
Although as you listen to the record, then it interrupt and tell you how many cups of coffee each individual track was worth.
Thus, there was a slight reduction in risk of stroke which was greatest among consumers of 3 to 4 cups of coffee per day.
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People who drink two 8-ounce cups of coffee daily appear to have an 11% lower risk of developing heart failure, compared to noncoffee drinkers.
We do know that caffeine is safe in lower dose ranges from 100-300 mg a day, which is typically contained in several cups of coffee.
But all cups of coffee and coffeehouses are not created equal.
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The starting line in Staten Island is equipped with 93, 600 bottles of water, more than 30, 000 power bars and fruit smoothies, and 45, 000 cups of coffee.
Satellite TV vans lined the curb on Fifth Avenue, and dozens of tired-looking reporters stood nearby, slurping cups of coffee provided by a vendor of iPhone cases.
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