In a business setting, tipping is not optional. Consider tipping mandatory when it comes to business entertaining expenses. Even if service is substandard still leave at least some tip.

在商业场合，小费是必不可少的。商业招待费用中，小费是一笔固定的支出。即使服务是不合格的，也要记得给一些小费。

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Tipping used to be rare. Now the tip jar is pretty standard, though many customers ignore it.

但现在，柜台上摆放小费罐已相当常见了，不过很多顾客对此都视而不见。

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Tipping the United States is very popular, often have to pay the tip, we went to New York to live in the 3-star hotel but we where there is no man-made our services, nor even water supply.

美国的小费是很盛行的，动不动就要付小费，我们到纽约住在3星级宾馆可是我们在哪里没有人为我们服务，连开水也不供应。

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It is clear that a lot of people, had a lot of information in this case, so the challenge of the case is going to be filtering out all of this background tipping to get to a specific tip that puts Gupta and Rajaratnam in a discussion about a specific stock.

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