UNICEF delivered cartons of BP-5, bars of soap, water family kits, recreational kits, bed nets, medical supplies, blankets and mats.
Suppose, for example, that there were a carton of twelve eggs sitting on a table.
But Baowen provides the necessary displays of intent (and Jin provides an example of his simple but glorious gift for detail): "He came to my home with two trussed-up capons, four cartons of Ginseng cigarettes, two bottles of Five Grains' Sap and one tall tin of oolong tea.
Alaa Sublaban, 25, one of the proprietors of a small, neat stall selling cartons of cigarettes four doors down from the cafe, took up the narrative.
"In another committee room, we were talking about giving tax breaks equivalent to 100 million cartons of milk over five years".
He was carrying two 30-packs of Pepsi, while the others were lugging grocery bags full of the week's other provisions: I counted at least five cartons of eggs and three tall stacks of tortillas, as well as several gallons of juice and freezer-wrapped bags of chicken.
We listened to Britney Spears's "Womanizer" on repeat and proceeded to smoke those two cartons of cigs in under two hours.
"We used to carry five to six cartons of milk on each flight for coach," said Elaine Sweeney, 58, a flight attendant with American for more than 30 years.
"This is not an initiative targeted at people going on the reservations to buy two, three or even five cartons of cigarettes.
"We are talking about two million cartons of milk or juice over two years -- that was unacceptable to the committee," North Dakota House Assistant Minority Leader Corey Mock (D-Grand Forks), an Education Committee member, told The Huffington Post.
