Word: genericism
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...last move to rebrand themselves, candidates rolled out new slogans for their campaign tours. The result? Bland rhetoric and funky punctuation for all. [This article contains a table. Please see hardcopy of magazine.] � TOUR TITLE TRANSLATION HILLARY CLINTON Big Challenges, Real Solutions?Time to Pick a President Generic message in multiple parts?just give us the nomination already BARACK OBAMA Stand for Change Stop stealing our theme, Hillary FRED THOMPSON The Clear Conservative Choice: Hands Down! Who are you calling lazy? We have exclamation points!!! JOHN EDWARDS America Rising: Fighting for the Middle Class John Edwards will punch...
...interracial mélange, in which, by disregarding syntax, we can circle the absent center of identity. As the title story’s protagonist probingly asks, “So what’s happened to the ideal of the Struggle (the capitalized generic of something else that’s never over, never mind history-book victories) for recognition, beginning in the self, that our kind, humankind, doesn’t need any distinctions of blood percentage tincture.”—Staff writer Alison S. Cohn can be reached at acohn@fas.harvard.edu...
...certainly does not limit himself to the criticism of urban geography. A billboard advertising “Leave No Child Behind” comprises part of a “discarded landscape.” Photographer and social critic, Brouws ambitiously raises questions far beyond the scope of a generic tea-table photo book, leaving them upended and unanswered, as is the privilege of artists...
...contraceptives at open market prices, and forced university and community health centers to either pass the increase in cost on to patients or stop carrying prescription contraception altogether. This is the case at our own University Health Services-affiliated pharmacy—though most students were switched to cheaper generic forms of oral contraception, those students on drugs with no generic equivalent have to pay much more. The consequences of instituting this new law have been immediately noticeable—clinics are already citing plummeting sales, and many students have reported switching to alternative birth control methods, like the morning...
...generous discounts on contraceptives enabled UHS to offer these medications at a lower price. Once federal law abolished such subsidies, the formerly discounted drugs increased to a higher price. When UHS’ stock of contraceptives ran dry, University doctors switched students from brand-name contraceptives to their generic equivalents. For birth control pills such as Ortho Tri-Cyclen Lo, which have no generic counterpart, students were required to pay the higher premiums. Students in this category were in the minority, according to DiRusso. Most students were already on generic birth control before the federal law came into effect...