Word: generic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...first-year candidates for the council are as generic as supermarket-brand cereal. Every first-year campaign poster is printed on the same copy-store flourescent orange paper; each reveals little or no information about the candidate. Therefore, I decided to perform my civic duty the hard way, investigating some of the declared candidates for the benefit of the electorate...
...directed cartoons at Warner Bros., where he helped create Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck, but he hit his stride at MGM. From 1942 to 1955 he made 65 short films there, 16 of them starring Droopy, a dyspeptic dog. Because most of his cartoons featured a generic menagerie, Avery was not so widely known as Chuck Jones and Bob Clampett, who did Bugs and Daffy star vehicles at Warners. (Four Avery Screwball Classics cassettes are available in video stores.) In France, however, he is an icon. French publishers have issued at least four lavish books on his oeuvre (just...
...director of the adult ADHD clinic at the University of Utah School of Medicine. Many adults respond to the diagnosis with relief -- a sense that "at last my problem has a name and it's not my fault." As more people are diagnosed, the use of Ritalin (or its generic equivalent, methylphenidate), the drug of choice for ADHD, has surged: prescriptions are up more than 390% in just four years...
...Harvard official--from Office of Career Services Director Martha P. Leape to those manning the registrar's office--could explain why Harvard doesn't administer the MCAT (or the GRE) When Harvard provides more test takers than any other school. The "best" generic response from Leape and others: "The Person who asked to administer the tests here is no alive." They said no one had stepped forward" to take the job. Hmmm...
...gift is really a way of communicating knowledge. A thoughtful present is a way of saying to someone you care about, "I know you." But a generic gift--even if it is a Corniche or a Faberge egg--says, "Aren't I great for getting you this...