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** FILE ** A Starbucks employee pours coffee beans into a grinder at the Seattle-based company's first retail coffee store in Beijing in this, Jan. 11, 1999, file photo. Starbucks Corp. said Tuesday, Oct. 24, 2006, it has expanded direct control of its operations in China by buying a Hong Kong company that has operated more than 60 of its coffee houses. The moves comes after China eased limits on foreign ownership of retail ventures in 2004, letting companies take full control of operations that once were required to be joint ventures. (AP Photo/Greg Baker, file)

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JAN. 11, 1999, FILE PHOTO. Minimum price 50PLN

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created date 1999-01-11

credit ASSOCIATED PRESS/East News

source Associated Press

byline GREG BAKER

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