Word: certain
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...product has expired, usually involving a period of 17 years, a pharmaceutical company simply replicates the original drug's components. But in a two-year study released earlier this month, the American Academy of Family Physicians found that many generics are not as potent as their originals. Reason: unless certain production tricks are used, it is often difficult to produce a formulation that will work as well in the body as the brand-name drug. In its approval process, the FDA relies on a generic-drug manufacturer's in-house lab tests to establish a product's effectiveness...
Solidarity's failure, however, could easily have the opposite effect. "Walesa is going to be criticized for certain," predicted Czech-born Zuzana Princova of London's Wharton Econometrics Forecasting Associates, "yet a lot of people have trust in him and really support him." But if Walesa and Mazowiecki are to keep Poland on its historic new course, they will also need outside help -- from Washington as well as from Moscow...
...mission is to defeat the Sendero movement. "Wherever drug traffickers get close to the guerrillas, we will get them," says one. "But don't ask us to go against the people growing coca." Another obstacle is corruption. DEA agents and Upper Huallaga residents say traffickers pay "landing fees" to certain police officials to use local airstrips...
...precedent-setting ruling, New York Judge Gerald Sheindlin questioned the reliability of certain procedures employed by Lifecodes Corp., one of the nation's leading DNA-testing firms. Sheindlin agreed that DNA techniques "are generally accepted in the scientific community and can produce reliable results." But he ruled that in the murder case of Bronx janitor Joseph Castro, Lifecodes "failed in several major respects to use the generally accepted scientific techniques and experiments for obtaining reliable results...
...want anybody calling me Ms. I have certain ideas that I had even before the feminist movement came along. I always believed in these things, like equal pay for equal work, but I can't say that I went out and fought for those principles...