In 1995 an analysis of a government study further dampened enthusiasm by concluding that drugs were more effective than CBT for severe depression.

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Approval of the study was greeted with enormous enthusiasm from scientists, child health advocates, and communities, and ideas were solicited from over 2500 scientists in different fields participating in twenty different working groups, as well as from government agencies, and communities around the country.

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Liquidity has improved, thanks to the widespread use of real-estate investment trusts (REITs). (The American-based National Association of Real Estate Investment Trusts commissioned the Ibbotson study.) But the global enthusiasm for REITs, together with the growing trend for property launches in the British mutual-fund sector, has a top-of-the-market feel.

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If her accent reflects her German origins and decades living in England, her tone expresses undiluted enthusiasm for the objects she gets to study and elucidate to students, faculty and the public at large.

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