Unfortunately, it would appear that its interest in currying favor with China and its money-men like White House coffee-clatcher Wang Jun did, as well.
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Yet here was the Democratic fund raiser agitating for three top executives from the world's biggest foreign investor in China to be invited to a White House coffee for prospective donors.
Soon, however, the White House admitted the president had himself erred, having approved a White House coffee guest list that included DNC officials, Comptroller of the Currency Eugene Ludwig, and several banking executives.
The White House's coffee get-togethers were a lucrative part of Democratic fund-raising last year.
But do not look for green-and-white logos: chain coffee shops have yet to infiltrate the counter-culture fortress that is Kensington.
They sipped coffee from white porcelain teacups.
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In the snack bar, empty white plastic cups stained with coffee littered the countertop.
Some such subversives may wonder how it is that the prime minister's wife, Emine, is banned from official functions in Ankara because she wears the Islamic headscarf, and yet can be received by Laura Bush for coffee at the White House.
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Just last week voters were reminded again just how brazenly his White House has mixed fund raising with policymaking: documents released by the Administration on Friday show that the party organized a coffee at the White House that brought together its own top fund raisers with banking CEOS and a senior banking regulator, Eugene Ludwig, the Comptroller of the Currency.
Price indexes for coffee, milk and white bread have all advanced 6% year-over-year since 2004.
Its illuminated buttons and large color LCD display steals attention from just about anything else on your coffee table while its white scroll wheel steals from something else.
It is impossible, for they vary in tone from coffee-dark to milky white.
Upstairs on the fifth floor where Kumar sits, attendants in white uniforms serve glasses of frothy cold coffee, a privilege, one is told, reserved for the chairman's visitors.
Bush and his wife, Laura, along with Cheney and his wife, Lynne, went to the White House this morning for a traditional coffee with Clinton, outgoing Vice President Al Gore and their wives, Hillary and Tipper.
Poly's former president Wang Jun sipped coffee with President Clinton at the White House in 1996 amid a controversy over campaign contributions by foreign interests.
Boys in blue shirts and white kerchiefs Mahdi Scouts poured coffee from ornate decanters and handed out bottles of water.
He had collapsed between wicker sofa and African coffee table, his legs hairless and white as wax, his stomach a great pale mound, and his face as pinched and pink as crab shell.
Li is one of 26 of the territory's fastest movers featured in this collection of interviews and black-and-white photographs, one of two better-than-average coffee table books on the territory recently published (see below).
"People actually shrieked in recognition when they saw them, " the pastry chef said, though the cupcakes bittersweet chocolate-glazed, coffee-laced devil's food with a white chocolate mousse center weren't Hostess products at all, but clever simulacra made with top-quality ingredients.
The technical problem was to be kept so secret that it came to be known as "Project X, " and the team, led by Lambuth, held a series of furtive technical meetings at a nearby Starbucks coffee house and Lafayette Park, across the street from the White House, to keep the issue confidential.
To your right is an open-air lounge with plush orange sofas, a coffee table stocked with games like Monopoly and Pictionary, and a white-washed writing desk that serves as a freestanding bar offering an array of cooling drinks.
Those 10 undergo rigorous performance testing at the Trumbull, Conn. headquarters by white-coated lab technicians who run millions of pieces of paper through the equipment, spill coffee into copiers and jam paper clips into fax machines.
It was always the same: a great wedge of papaya with limes, a crisp thin omelette with green chilis mixed in, two slices of inch-thick white-bread toast, a dollop of red jelly and of margarine, and a pot of coffee with milk.
Some evenings, we took a picnic into the woods, with a bottle of white wine wrapped in a crisp tea towel, wineglasses in a cedarwood container, and a flask of coffee.
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