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Fluid resuscitation is generally considered to be a cornerstone of treatment—but how much fluid should be given?
Evita: In the New Republic , historian Enrique Krauze lists the horrors of Perónism glossed over by the musical and film: the torture and murder of political opponents, often under Nazi tutelage; the sheltering of war criminals, possibly for personal profit; the destruction of the Argentine economy; the laying of the cornerstone for the "Dirty Wars" of the 1970s and 1980s.
Paul Revere and Sam Adams laid the cornerstone in 1785.
In describing the links between brain and behavior, mental chronometry is still a cornerstone that binds psychology to the techniques of neuroscience.
Accurate staging represents the cornerstone for triaging patients to either localized or to more aggressive and systemic therapies.