They then get drunk again, on a trip to Ireland, and wind up married.

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Herodotus, the Greek historian, reported that the ancient Persians always made important decisions twice first when they were drunk, and then again when they were sober.

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Police said he was stopped from throwing glass bottles at a shopping centre while drunk, and spoken to again on a separate occasion after arguing on the street with another man.

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Laughing again, Manning sounded drunk, Aisling thought.

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He saw a psychiatrist again after he was caught drunk at school, Pietz said.

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They're trying to get Wall Street's gamblers only a little bit drunk so they'll dive into the market again.

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When alcohol regulation flared up again in the 1980s, during the debate over stricter punishments for drunk driving, the debate never turned into a culture war because "alcohol" was not code (as it had been a century before) for a dozen other identities and grievances.

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