The result was that three-quarters of the treated group did not relapse into depression: a success rate twice as high as that of the 20 patients in the control group, who received a placebo regimen.

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The director of Fairview-University Children's Hospital's cystic fibrosis center for almost forty years has been none other than Warren Warwick, the pediatrician who had conducted the study of LeRoy Matthews's suspiciously high success rate.

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He says the FDIC has had a "high rate of success in nursing" troubled institutions back to health.

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Hwang Sang-min, a professor of psychology at Yonsei University in Seoul, argues that Korean society's strong focus on appearances having the right education, job or perceived level of success is a big factor in the high suicide rate.

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And so when we equip these lawyers who already have legal skills to understand the constitutional dynamics of litigation, we've seen the success rate be very, very high.

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Yet paradoxically, the beginnings of success are often the cause of the high rate of failure.

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Dutch researchers who studied the ring found it had a high success rate - only six women out of 1, 145 conceived after using it.

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The UB School is the columination of ten years of my planning to find the most effective process for effectively turning out new business owners who enjoy a high rate of success.

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Companies are lucky if they hit on one of 10 wells, so such a high success rate has been noteworthy even when the production from those wells was not impressive.

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