Word: development
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Compared with an original, patented drug, a generic is much less expensive to develop. After the patent on a brand-name 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...
...tragedy of FAS is that it is entirely preventable. If a woman, even an alcoholic one, stops drinking before she tries to become pregnant, her fetus will not develop FAS or any alcohol-related birth defects. But pregnancies are not always planned. If a woman does not realize for several weeks that she is pregnant, she may not stop drinking in time to prevent harm to the fetus...
...course, everyone speculates about how these incidents occur at the time they are discovered. Years of analysis and research later, we develop some understanding of their causation, as we have, for example, with the Vietnam War. But just as we seem to get a grasp of how our government messes up, hungry journalists uncover more and more scandals...
...United Peasant Party, which claims a membership of 500,000, has been allied with the Communists since its creation in 1949 after the forced merger of a pro-Communist Peasant Party and an opposition Peasant Party. It has been allowed to develop a more independent policy in the last decade, and about one-third of its 76 deputies support Solidarity...
...movie, something called The Big Game. And that was pretty much the way it went with him thereafter. There was nothing he couldn't write, so there was nothing he didn't write. Preoccupied by productivity and the demands of his life- style, he had no time left to develop the guiding vision of self and world a major novelist needs...