Word: genericism
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Sachs said that using generic drug products could result in significantly lower costs than those projected by many opponents of increased assistance...
Though the WHO claimed that MDR tuberculosis infection was untreatable and that the costs would be forbiddingly high, Kim silenced opposition with an 85 percent cure rate in a shantytown in Lima, Peru, using less expensive generic drugs...
...Four directors of the WHO Global TB Program had pronounced a death sentence without knowing that generic drugs were available," Kim said...
...rhythm that marks classics of the same genre. Perhaps it's a case of too many people wanting in on a piece of the Martin action: a quick glance at the credits shows each song to have been engineered by around 10 people, which may have contributed to the generic quality of the songs. The lyrics seem forced, with discordant rhymes that are unnaturally matched with background instrumentals...
...from Sheffield, England, to Buffalo, N.Y., and the steel-girder sets are drably unmemorable. Instead of the film's catchy '70s hits (Hot Chocolate's You Sexy Thing), we have a new score by David Yazbek, whose lyrics ("cojones" rhymed with "what testosterone is") are marginally better than his generic, '70s-pop-with-a-hint-of-Sondheim music. Even the supposed showstoppers--a black man (Andre DeShields) sings of his endowments; a crusty pianist (Kathleen Freeman) celebrates her show-biz past--seem earthbound and underchoreographed...