1.   The enforced retirement from academic life proved valuable in other respects as the next decade became a prolific one for her own work.

2.   In the private sector, Kroll said, the decade has become the era of the megafraud.

3.   Research financing for minority health issues has only in the past few decades become a health policy priority.

4.   The downside of such tests, of course, is that they take years to complete and decades to become statistically valid.