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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.
As long as Congress is unwilling to offset revenue losses with real spending cuts (not the vague promises of future rectitude that have been the mainstay of every "historic balanced budget" package since 1981), a cut in taxes means a bigger federal budget deficit.
They seem to be a mainstay of condominium resorts like The Margate at Winnepesaukee a Premier Lakes Region Resort (which suggests ownership); Winterberry a Resort Village; and Moon Ridge a Point of View , which contains a nice whimsy.
Nouns and verbs are the mainstay of the metaphors treated, but adjectives are in very short supply.
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.