Hughes won in 1999 with Birthday Letters and 1998 with Tales From Ovid, while Heaney won the year before that with The Spirit Level.

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Heaney's triumph comes four years after he scooped the same prize for The Spirit Level, and marks the fourth successive time the Book of the Year title has been awarded to poetry.

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With no new worlds to be conquered in the House, why not take the spirit of 1994 to the next level?

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Later versions of the tool filled small tubes with ethanol alcohol (earning them the name "spirit level") and encased several tubes inside a long, wide body, which could rest on different surfaces.

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The success of most restaurants relies on warm personal interaction at the retail level, and it makes sense for that spirit to permeate the business.

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Although all Port, produced in the Douro River Valley of Portugal, is made the same way (partially fermented wine is fortified with a neutral spirit, which stops fermentation and raises the alcohol level), there are two distinct types: ruby and tawny.

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It is the same whiskey without the addition of water, a standard step in the final production of nearly every spirit, which is done to bring the alcohol content down from the high level at which it leaves the aging casks.

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The competitive spirit in other athletes might argue that they too exude these same qualities at the same level.

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On a more philosophical level, I love the traditions of spirit distillation, and the fact that there are usually rules, like that Scotch can only be made from barley, and rum from sugarcane, whereas vodka can be made from any ingredient in which starch can be converted to sugar, be it potatoes, wheat, rye, grass, corn, soy beans or whatever the distiller finds laying around.

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