Some investors are also sobering up to slimmer returns from the residential, office and shopping mall sectors, where prices are fast rising to unattractive levels.

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Though geography is offered as a sobering up after the intoxications of end-of-history ideology, it soon reveals itself as another brandy bottle, with intoxications of its own.

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This could include posts made by drunk people who, on sobering up, take swift action to delete the communication because they are genuinely sorry for the offence or harm they caused.

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It may not have been like 30 years ago, when the cool kids who would shape the future met each other Monday nights at the Pyramid Club on Avenue A or, later, sobering up with blintzes and coffee at the Kiev as dawn broke.

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Sobering up after a Saturday night of reporting (that, of course, I invited my buddies to join and blew my whole fee for the piece in one night at the tables) I went to a landfill-turned golf course in a town (I forget which one) that was also being considered for a casino.

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What explains the great sobering-up?

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Apart from anything else, it's a sobering read for journalists caught up in the daily frenzy of the campaign trail.

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If you're keen to digest even more of these sobering statistics, we recommend you hit up the source for the full executive summary and even more infographics.

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And, if this set-up works, it will send sobering messages about U.S. influence in New Delhi.

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The idea that more brain cell activity could lead to more amyloid-beta build up is an exciting, if sobering, finding.

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