In 1936, he began to distill alcohol from sugar cane juice along with his three sons.

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Leading economists and politicians of the Left continue to distill their frenzy from Keynes.

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It has also branched into interesting side businesses, such as a technology called dragon-fly that can distill drinking water from the natural moisture in the air.

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In the pages of this publication and elsewhere, many have posited that recalcitrant IT departments, hidebound by a history of rigid organization, have been a bottleneck to the adoption of new technologies and, by extension, the ability to distill business value from data.

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It takes an observer like Nick Carraway (Tobey Maguire) to distill the finer sentiments from this sorry tale of the super-rich, and Luhrmann isn't that.

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The setup offers a smart schema to distill a range of responses, from sympathy to revenge, that, as in a Western, distills great social forces to intimate issues.

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