Word: compounded
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...pharmacy shelf. Although drug patents can last up to 22 years, firms must test a product for several years after a patent filing to win approval from the Food and Drug Administration. That gives competitors, who have access to the filing, time to tinker with a patented compound and make it different enough to qualify as a new drug. Growing, too, are the ranks of generic-drug producers who do little or no research and sell copies of older drugs at deep discounts. Their share of the $28.3 billion-a-year U.S. market for prescription drugs is likely to double...
...cabin with smoke curling from its chimney, the small schoolhouse, granary and workshop might serve as a setting for the Walton family. The 2 1/ 2-acre Singer compound in tiny Marion, Utah (pop. 200), speaks of simplicity and family ties. The family is indeed close-knit: Vickie Singer's son-in-law Addam Swapp is married to both her daughters...
Last week several hundred feet beyond their fence, the hostile world waited. More than 150 police and FBI agents surrounded the compound shortly after Swapp allegedly dynamited the nearby Mormon church on Jan. 16. The heavily armed clan of messianic polygamists was holed up with ample food and water, goading the authorities to deliver them to martyrdom and thereby bring about the resurrection of their dead patriarch, Vickie's husband John Singer...
...funeral. Marion's church was badly damaged by an estimated 75 lbs. of dynamite. Nearby, investigators found a feathered spear stuck into the ground with a note that read, "Jan. 18, 1979. John Singer was killed on that date." As seven adults and nine children retreated into the Singer compound, Swapp supposedly told his brother-in-law that he was responsible for the bombing. By telephone, Vickie Singer reportedly declared, "We are going to battle. Yes, there will be death, killing...
State and federal officials said they were determined to resolve the standoff without bloodshed. The police fired no shots, out of concern for the children in the compound and perhaps out of sensitivity to the events of nine years ago. Inside the fortified cabin, the spirit of the stubborn patriarch was very much alive...