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...Neill's side is winning. The deficit-reduction plan that Greenspan pushed on a reluctant Bill Clinton in 1993 is the foundation of the prosperity of the last eight years. Balanced budgets, a mainstay of Republicanism in the '50s, were one of Newt Gingrich's rallying cries in the '90s, and are the one thing everybody can agree on in 2001, especially with those city-of-gold surpluses shimmering on the horizon...
Both can be treated, but there is a catch: the treatments are nearly as harsh as the diseases. Steroids, for example--a mainstay of lupus therapy--shut down the immune system and suppress inflammation, but they can also promote hardening of the arteries, bone loss, obesity and even psychosis. Steroids are, in fact, among the leading causes of death and morbidity for patients with chronic lupus...
Both can be treated, but there’s a catch: the treatments are nearly as harsh on the body as the diseases themselves. Steroids, for example-a mainstay of lupus therapy-shut down the immune system and suppress painful inflammation, but can also promote hardening of the arteries, bone loss, psychosis and obesity. Steroids, in fact, are among of the leading causes of death and morbidity for patients with chronic lupus...
...response to the myriad problems facing the quickly-growing Portuguese population, a small group of Portuguese-speaking Cambridge residents joined together in 1969 to form MAPS, a program that works to ease the transition for fellow immigrants. Since its founding, MAPS has grown and is now a mainstay for Portuguese residents of Cambridge...
...City stylist Patricia Field, who first put the necklace on Carrie, says she was inspired by customers in her downtown Manhattan clothing shop. "A large group of them are girls from the boroughs of New York City," says Field, "and it's a mainstay with them...