Recent acquisitions for London-based Diageo have included ShuiJingFang, a maker of baijiu, a Chinese white spirit, as well as Mey Icki, in Turkey.

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Mrs Spiller said her son started to injure himself at the age of nine and would sit on railway tracks near their home or drink white spirit when upset.

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Imported spirits make up about 2% of the Chinese alcohol market, with baijiu a white spirit distilled from sorghum, wheat or rice representing half of the country's alcohol sales, according to Euromonitor, a data provider.

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According to officers, English, of no fixed abode, had a bottle of white spirit which he had spread around the flat, and he tried to set light to a sofa and a curtain.

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In 2007, it bought a 43% stake in white-spirit producer Sichuan Chengdu Qianxing, which it later hiked to 49%.

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You can kayak, visit the local Gitga'at First Nations community, or go hiking in hopes of coming upon a white Kermode "spirit bear" (or not).

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The shock and horror was etched across the faces of the Celtic players, but slowly and surely, those emblazoned with the green and white began to show its famous spirit.

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Priscilla at age 24 assumed the position of White House hostess, met its demands with spirit and success, and enjoyed it.

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You can catch the Nuge chasing Texas wild boar or white-tailed deer with his bow and arrow on Ted Nugent Spirit of the Wild every Tuesday night at 9:30 p.m. on the Outdoor Channel, a cable network cofounded by Massie.

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But I think that -- I think the spirit represented by that book is what will be here in the White House tomorrow as I believe President George W. Bush as well as his father, President George H.

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