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While Standard's practices may have led to, in Chernow's words, "misery all around" for producers, the low prices and improved product they brought to the refining industry meant nothing but good news for consumers.
As for the other part of refining, which consists in receiving new words and pharases, I shall not insist much on it.
At 11:15, Secretary Rumsfeld spoke to the President and told him DOD was working on refining the rules of engagement so pilots would have a better understanding of the circumstances under which an aircraft could be shot down.
For I cannot approve of their way of refining, who corrupt our English idiom by mixing it too much with French: that is a sophistication of language, not an improvement of it; a turning English into French, rather than a refining of English by French.
The BDGP will continue to finish the remaining problematic regions of the euchromatic genomic sequence to high quality (see [ 17]), and focus efforts on refining the sequence of the heterochromatin [ 25].