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Although swords, bows, and arrows remained the mainstays of warfare, suddenly matchlocks, muskets, and cannons made their appearance.
The rise of mass production, national advertising, and brand identity--the mainstays of consumer capitalism--sent most small beauty manufacturers out of business, and the rest into the hands of men who directed large corporations.
"The embargo is one of the mainstays of the Cuban dictatorship," it said.
Observation reveals that we have been spared the last two, but the rest are retained as mainstays of British humor, especially knickers (American English: panties), the mere mention of which seems to send everyone in the U.K. in paroxysms of uncontrollable laughter.
But instead, we could choose to immediately implement the mainstays of public health—universal testing and contact tracing [2,3,4].