Word: copycatting
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...pharmaceutical firms see local manufacture and so-called parallel imports--where other countries buy the copycat generics instead of the brand name--as a threat they are battling to wipe out. They feel that they alone should not have to pick up the tab for Africa. They want to stanch drug pirates who might make worthless fakes or flood drugs onto the black market. And they fear that making AIDS therapies cheaper for Africans will prompt lucrative Western markets to demand lower prices as well...
...than 80 prepackaged folios or build one yourself. Unlike mutual funds, there are no minimums, and you decide when to take a tax bite. Trading is free twice a day, but real-time trades cost $14.95. Folios are catching on. The next several months will see the launch of copycat companies, including NetFolio and UNX.com...
...written by a Filipino hacker last year. Still, the transparency of this clue suggested that the word might have been inserted as a deliberate smoke screen to fool the computer sleuths. By week's end, the work of investigators was further complicated by the appearance of a number of copycat viruses, created either by others or by the Love Bug's author...
Since the virus started spreading last Thursday, many copycat viruses have appeared that mimic the virus's behavior, including those with subject lines and file names like "Susitikim shi vakara kavos puodukui...", "FW: Joke", "Love Letter", "Very Funny.vbs" or "Very Funny.HTM...
...Kenley have begun to speculate about the authenticity of "gluttony," as it was found in the same place as wrath and with an exclamation mark next to it. They also believe it may be in different handwriting. Guberman explains, "it seems more like the mocking work of a copycat." Kenley concurs, "this isn't our man. He wouldn't strike twice in the same place. He is a calculating perpetrator that works out of passion...