Word: generic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Barnes says that although the percentage of Christians in the undergraduate population has remained constant, subtle shifts within generic groupings have led to an increased number of religious organizations on campus...
...needs a doctor, she goes to see someone at the Arizona Physicians Clinic in downtown Phoenix. Chen, the director of the Arizona Health Care Cost Containment System (AHCCCS, pronounced access), reads her magazines in the waiting room alongside people who pay no insurance premiums, who can barely afford their generic prescription medications, who perhaps cannot even read the warning labels on a bottle of aspirin. When Sherry Broyles, 23, a single mother of two, needs to see a doctor, she waits alongside the likes of Chen and feels no less worthy of her doctor's attention just because...
Though Republicans aren't big fans of redistributive taxation, they are big fans of cutting overall taxation. To the extent that there is a generic Republican response to stagnant wages, this is it: spur growth by slashing stifling taxes...
...spurred by the expiration of patent rights on the acid blockers and growing competition from lower-priced generic drugs, the pharmaceutical firms are seeking and winning approval from the Food and Drug Administration for over-the-counter sales of somewhat milder versions of the blockers. At stake as the companies tout these products, say industry analysts, is an additional $1 billion in sales for heartburn medications. "This is a blockbuster," says Paul Kelly, president of Silvermine Consulting Group, in Westport, Connecticut. "It's the most dramatic medical launch since Advil." Two acid blockers, Tagamet HB and Pepcid AC, have begun...
...seeking FDA approval of an over-the-counter version. The wisdom of that decision became evident when Tagamet sales plummeted from $600 million in 1993 to only $400 million last year after the drug lost its patent protection in May and became vulnerable to competition from less expensive generic varieties...