Word: genericism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Under these terms, I agree no prayer is better than such a prayer. All prayer worthy of the name is specific--from someone to someone about someone or something. Generic prayer is not prayer but platitude, and we need no more of these...
Stark reality and poignant beauty are not often enough seen in the daily paper comics. Mort "Beetle Bailey" Walker, the antithesis of the new cartoonists, once said that cartoonists can just barely draw and just barely tell jokes. This may be true in the generic land of "Beetle Bailey," but alternative cartoonists are nothing if not artists...
Strumming out rollicking melodies on an inexpensive guitar, he educated as well as entertained. When he sang about a giraffe named Joshua pining to leave the zoo, children learned to wonder about the feelings of animals. Thanks a Lot offered gratitude to a generic deity for the everyday goodness of life. His paeans to the peanut-butter sandwich, the horn on the bus, tooth brushing and bathtime were comforting confirmation to millions of squirming dissidents that while each of them is unique, their frustrations and fears...
Kessler is waging a crusade well suited to the 1990s: it involves no new money. In fact, during the past decade the FDA has been given a host of new and taxing responsibilities, including the oversight of the generic-drug industry, the evaluation of hundreds of AIDS treatments and now the redesigning of food labels. Yet the agency's budget has not increased proportionally. "We've had to divert people from laboratory work, and we've brought people in from the field," says Ed Scarbrough, the chief architect of the FDA's new labeling program. He believes that the task...
...that for more than a decade had been bled of funds by the White House and burdened with new responsibilities by Congress. AIDS activists were picketing the front doors because of the FDA's sluggish pace in approving drugs. Five employees had been convicted of accepting bribes from the generic-drug industry. There were allegations that other staffers were selling insider information about drug approvals to stockbrokers. And a federal report had just concluded that the agency's outmoded labs and meager staff were incapable of ensuring the safety of foods or the efficacy of new drugs...