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More than a quarter of Macau's workforce is employed by the casino and gambling industries, and while gambling is illegal on the mainland, China's promise to maintain the capitalist system in the territory for the next 50 years means that gambling will most likely remain the mainstay of Macau's economy.
And then, of course, there was the New York Times , that old mainstay of psychotic delusion--Nash thought aliens were sending him encrypted messages through its pages (come to think of it, that could explain the Times ' odd prose).
Occasional patients may come to attention in late childhood or adulthood but careful history often indicates that symptoms have appeared earlier [ 18 19 ] . The mainstay of treatment is dietary restriction of sucrose-containing foods.
During the 1990s they made numerous attempts to de-stabilize his regime, finally resorting to attacking the mainstay of the Egyptian economy — tourism — and several despicable attacks on foreign visitors resulted in over 60 deaths.
So far the mainstay of treatment for postpartum depression has rested with oral antidepressants, specifically the SSRI's.