Word: brands
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Park's victory was a defeat not only for Yun but for the old-style politicians and the brand of factionalism that they represented. It was a major display of maturing political organizations as South Korea moves from the traditional Oriental politics of the elite to popular party rule. "Now that the election is over," Park told Koreans in a brief victory statement, "it is time for all of us to lay aside our differences and work together to modernize our country...
...After anonymous callers threatened to bomb his family, he simply got an unlisted number; federal agents have periodically guarded his comfortable ranch house ever since. He keeps a current file on all active Alabama Klansmen. Asked whether his wires are tapped, Johnson lights up another Home Run cigarette (a brand that makes Gauloises seem bleu by comparison) and noncommittally drawls: "I've made a studied effort to avoid areas of paranoia...
...born smalltime lumber dealer only a decade ago, now owns the Formosa Plastics Corp., which this year will do a $40 million business in such products as plastic sheeting and baby pants. T. S. Lin's Tatung Engineering Co. has a broad range of consumer goods: the Tatung brand is stamped on pressurized rice cookers, washing machines, fans, radios and, lately, television sets. Tjingling Yen and his wife Vivian, who holds a master's degree from Columbia University, operate two of the fastest-growing companies on Taiwan. From facing desks in a modest Taipei office...
Nembuol is really a moderate example of these price inequities. Medicate. a brand name adrenal steroid, sells for $170.00 per 1000, yet a generic equivalent can be bought from any of 12 reliable companies for less than $12.00. One of them sells it for $7.95. Peptids are potassium penicillin G tablets sold by Squibb for $6.72 per 100. but 17 firms sell pen G for $2.00 or less. And that is one generic equivalent that most druggists stock. Colace, an anti-constipation drug made by Mead Johnson, sells for $45.79 per 1000. But eight firms sell the generic, dioctyl sodium...
When he started his practice he had no idea that brand name drugs cost so much more than generics or that there was politics involved in the mess. He prescribed generics almost exclusively, simply because those were the names he knew, being a pharmacology instructor...