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Intellectual life flourished, and great advances were made in science and medicine.
As shown by the Diabetes Control and Complications Trial and the more recent Epidemiology of Diabetes Interventions and Complications trial, insulin therapy has made such considerable advances (with better insulin formulations and delivery systems) that many patients can maintain their blood sugar levels within a tight range and thereby reduce their risk for the disease's long-term complications [3,4,5].
CIA analytic report, "Threat Threads: Recent Advances in Understanding 11 September,"CTC 2002-30086CH, Sept. 16, 2002, p.
The School's cardiologists, cardiovascular surgeons, and scientists have made significant advances through the years against the nation's number one killer.
Today, when commercial considerations put the publisher into the role of the patron--despite the fact that advances are repayable, risks are taken--acknowledgment of an editor's (artistic) contribution may be relegated to the closing lines of the author's foreword, which often grudgingly suggests that the work was produced in spite of rather than because of the person cited.