Word: doctor
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...stands for freedom, and they can't take that away"), recalled the Grenada invasion, the Olympics and his D-day anniversary visit to Normandy and told an anecdote about how the dying Ulysses S. Grant saluted a battle-scarred Union veteran ("as Grant's wife and the doctor wept...
...Reagan's campaign advertising, the theme of renewed national confidence is sounded more subtly and soothingly. "Americans are like any people," suggests Sociologist Lipset. "When they go to the doctor, no matter what is wrong with them, they want the doctor to tell them they're O.K." Last week the Reagan campaign bought 30 minutes of prime time on ABC, CBS, NBC and three large cable networks (total bill: $750,000) to air what may be the slickest, most ambitious political ad ever made. The centerpiece of the commercial was the 18-minute film used to introduce Reagan...
...dream to the halfway mark. In the process, another 250,000 blacks will be written out of South Africa's official population figures and added to the more than 5 million already classified as citizens of the other four homelands. Kwandebele has just one paved road, no resident doctor, an acute water shortage, and employment opportunities for only about 2% of its people. The rest must find jobs in South Africa if they have not done so already...
...states have passed laws that allow pharmacists to substitute a generic equivalent for a brand-name prescription unless the doctor specifically forbids it. In Florida, druggists are required to tell customers how much they will save by using generic products. To counteract these laws, the brand-name companies encourage doctors to write "dispense as written" or "no substitution" on their prescriptions. In addition, the big firms try to give their pills distinctive shapes and trademarks. Hoffmann-La Roche's Valium tranquilizer tablets, for example, have a V carved in the center. The company hopes that when Valium...
...generic drugs but only 80% of the price of brand-name pills. Moreover, many drugstore chains are pushing low-priced generics. Walgreens, with 947 outlets in 30 states and Puerto Rico, says that when one of its pharmacists receives a prescription marked "no substitution," he is to call the doctor before filling the order. With the patient standing by, the druggist tells the physician how much more the brand-name drug costs than the generic...