Word: genericism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...FRIDAY, PHILIP MORRIS SLASHED 40 CENTS OFF THE price of Marlboro cigarettes, reducing the average cost of a pack to $1.80. Admitting that this aggressive pricing could reduce earnings 40% this year, the company said it had to meet the challenge of discount and generic brands. Fears of a price war prompted Wall Street to dump tobacco stocks. Philip Morris shares plunged $14.75, to $49.38, and since the company is among the 30 firms whose stocks are in the Dow Jones Industrial Average, that bellwether index plummeted. A weak bond market and news that the unemployment rate remained...
According to the Antitrust and Trade Regulation Report, Areeda's client accused Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corp. of violating anti-trust laws by offering volume discounts to force Liggett to raise prices on generic cigarettes...
...definitely want to take every thing one step at a time," Burke said. "That sounds like a generic response, but it's true in our case--once we get out on the field, our goals will become more concrete...
Confused? If you think it's vexing telling a notebook from a subnotebook, wait until you try distinguishing one notebook model from another. There are at least 100 U.S. nationally advertised vendors who market notebooks, many of whom sell generic systems manufactured by a small number of Taiwan companies...
Rothenberg first became noticed in New York in the mid-1970s, with a series of paintings that depicted -- of all things -- horses. Despite her other merits, she is no George Stubbs, and her horses were of a generic cast, crude silhouettes with a certain amount of texture and internal patterning but no modeling, with heads like wombats' and hooves of clay. The surprise that they occasioned at the time came less from their fidelity to the equine form than from the fact that they were there on canvas...