He could even get a real gold version of this tea set if the whim struck him.
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"They like this tea with one sugar and a little bit of milk and they consume it almost on a daily basis, and the same with people who are chocoholics, " he says.
In January 2002, it set up a research group to study the origins of Lapsang Souchong tea, only to find that the Wuyishan Nature Reserve was the birthplace of this tea variety.
But, the controversial billionaire Koch brothers (Charles and David) are no newcomers to this (tea)party.
This explains tea's particular appeal to the ageing baby-boom generation, suggests Brian Keating of Sage Group, a market-research firm, in a recent report on the industry.
But last year, Americans drank more than 50 billion servings of tea, and marketing tealeaf readers say this will be tea's best year ever in America.
But in several other Republican Senate primaries this year, tea partiers did manage to defeat more moderate candidates.
Your narrative on Sunday on the shows and then Monday here at the podium was that this was a tea party downgrade.
So, on this bit of tea-leaf reading, we're off to the races so long as shares don't fall more than that 2.5% today.
This year, tea party members supported legislation from Rep. Jeff Chapman, R-Brunswick, that would trim the utility's profits if it goes over budget building the plant.
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This is what most tea party groups targeted by the IRS wanted to do.
"To read too much into this is like reading tea leaves, " said Sibneft spokesman John Mann.
Approaching the turn of another year, we did a lot of reading of tea leaves this week at Forbes Leadership.
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This week, the Tea Party will be in Washington protesting government spending.
Some Darjeeling producers have switched to making green tea but this now faces competition from China, Mr David wrote in a recent article.
As that organization's president, Colin Hanna, has pointed out: A national sample conducted earlier this year of likely voters identifying themselves as "generally supportive of the Tea Party movement" revealed this insight: 55% of such voters are not in favor of cutting the defense budget beyond current levels, as opposed to only 34% favoring further reductions in its accounts.
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We're pretty sure nothing like this ever happened at a Tea Party rally.
For tea partiers, this is a crisis that shouldn't go to waste.
Then he gave a formal speech the next morning and, fueled this time by highly caffeinated tea, I again took notes, just to be sure.
Like their modern counterparts, the first tea partiers sensed this.
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John Kline, a Bachmann volunteer who attended the Des Moines tea party rally this week, said he has been working phone banks for the candidate in the weeks since her straw poll victory.
The Iowa Tea Party invited this author to address its April 16 and July 2 rallies about gold, which, courtesy of the American Principles Project (with whom this writer is associated professionally, ) was a major theme of its bus tour.
Now that really sent out some danger signals and that's why, you know this contest is not a tea party, there are those who think that the minute that there is any sort of engagement between the two opposing views here, that somehow this is against the rules.
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This would seem to contradict the tea party's claim that it's all about fiscal prudence and small government.
This former moderate, with the Tea Party uppermost in his mind, is now throwing bones to red-meat conservatives.
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You know, the Tea Party has become this negative, negativized, if you will, label by the mainstream media.
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This is one issue where the TEA Parties have to diligently study the writings of the Fathers to get things right.
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