Staff were attentive, offering jasmine tea in paper cups and presenting name cards to each prospective customer.

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When pitching stores, hotels and restaurants, their demonstration often includes cutting open a paper tea bag, containing only broken leaves and tea dust, from a mass-market brand.

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In my case that means printer paper, green tea and cat food.

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Brought up in Cheshire, northern England, in the 1970s, Brooks is said to have decided on a career in journalism at the age of 14, beginning with a job as a "tea girl" at her local paper.

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In the "plaintiffs efforts to extricate the tea bag from its position of being wedged between the tilted paper 'hot cup' of extremely hot water and the shorter clear plastic soft drink cup, the extremely hot water spilled into her lap at her groin area, " the suit said.

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Each Sunday, the archbishop of Buenos Aires would come and pick up the paper himself at 05:30 before catching a bus to distribute tea to sick people in the suburb of Lugano, said Luis Del Regno.

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She unfolded her white paper napkin and began to dab her straw on it, leaving faint tea-colored dots.

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Their list of supplies is also exhaustive, with support sledges carrying 7, 300 tea bags, 4, 400 packets of soup, 230 kilograms of chocolate and 165 rolls of toilet paper (12 sheets per man, per day).

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