Needless to say, our tea went cold as we contemplated what needed to be done!
Now, if we're reading our tea leaves correctly, then Microsoft's got a whole lot more in store for 2010.
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We sip our tea and produce an early supper for our brood who, after the initial excitement of departure has died down, are too tired and ravenous to wait.
In woebegone Hargeisa, the dusty and crumbling capital of Somaliland, a young university student insisted on paying for our tea at a cafe, thanking us profusely for engaging with him in a discussion about religion, politics and America that was eye-opening for Levi and me.
We connected Tongal with Brisk Tea, our iced tea brand, which has done a lot with video and is very much about creativity.
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Honest Tea's top-selling item is our organic Honey Green Tea, which has 35 calories per eight-ounce serving and is in a 16.9 oz. bottle.
We must all strive to keep communications open, so that we can work toward resolving our differences: Tea Party to the New York Dems, Divine Revelation Believers to Super Rationalists, we can all stand to listen.
At The Spa at Four Seasons Hong Kong, our glass of herbal tea was always kept full and the spa therapist personalized a service to beat our lingering jet lag.
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Our main exports, tea, rubber, cocoa and garments, all became uncompetitive in the world market.
So, while the stock market clearly remains in a downtrend, our take on the tea leaves is we managed to move away from panic-mode on Tuesday.
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But in an ideologically divided nation like ours, a party must expend political capital to enact major change (i.e. the Democrats loss of the House after passing health care reform and stimulus spending.) Our polling shows the Tea Party is paying a price for the debt limit battle it initiated.
Note the reference to tea: it has an entirely different place in the English mythorama, our view of how the world should be, to the place that tea, with its parties and Boston Harbour, has in the American.
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"We saw the direction that our cash crops such as coffee and tea went, " he says.
Yet the mayor's proposal would actually prevent Honest Tea from selling most of our drinks in New York City restaurants.
What other images do tea parties conjure up in our culture?
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When we owned and operated a fried chicken franchise, one of our promotions involved 800 gallons of iced tea, 20, 000 nickels, and a couple of dozen high school cheerleaders and dance team members.
Sipping lemon-ginger tea on the cushions of our house's rooftop pavilion, I watch the first light spangle the leaves of the poplars along the village's irrigation stream, see lambs herded into a small willow-walled corral, a woman in a black robe and orange head scarf testing her lower back after filling her buckets.
Apparently, tea party thinking does not value our tradition of free expression of ideas as the means to reach better results.
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Sir Alex told the congregation how Reid, who became a fervent supporter of the Scottish national team, "was seen in the Hampden tea room telling Denis Law, our greatest ever player, how he scored his goals".
After a flurry of handshakes, promises to sit down for some tea later, etc. we headed for our rooms.
We sipped tea for hours, discussing practically anything but our common interest.
Just a few days before, my translator and I were smoking cigarettes and enjoying some hot tea, waiting with a few sheiks for our weekly situation meeting to begin.
On a clear spring morning we laid out a blanket, ate sandwiches and made tea sweetened with honey on the camping stove we kept in our jeep for emergencies.
We eventually came to rest at the crest of a massive dune, and watched the sunset while our guides built a campfire and prepared a round of bitter red hibiscus tea.
And here are a few others, the result of our own in-depth - two minute - musing over a cup of tea.
Endless snowflakes fell from an opalescent Austrian sky and stayed on our noses and eyelashes while we warmed up with cups of clove-and-orange Christmas tea from Demmers Teehaus , Vienna's best.
Most people view the Occupy Wall Street movement as the ideological opposite of the Tea Party, yet they share a remarkably similar motivating principle: a concern that our economic system has become fundamentally unfair.
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