Word: genericism
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...prospect of a flood of organized retail outlets putting mom-and-pop stores out of business. Wal-Mart, which has tied up with Bharti to set up a chain of retail stores to take on Reliance, has drawn protests, including a demonstration last February in which a generic Wal-Mart executive was burned in effigy, even before the opening of the first store. (Wal-Mart said it would not comment for this story.) Earlier this month, thousands of vegetable-selling middlemen in Ranchi, a city in eastern India, attacked three recently opened Reliance stores, which they say are putting them...
They may be. The Democrats won the national congressional vote by about 8 points over Republicans in 2006--and polls suggest they have increased their lead in the generic party competition since then. It's true, as Republicans hope, that two years in the congressional majority may burden Democrats with some perceived responsibility for the country's allegedly parlous state. But the presidency and the President will still tend to dominate the news and be held accountable--and the Bush Administration is proving particularly adept at providing ever fresh instances of scandal, pseudo scandal and incompetence to remind people they...
...classic rock song that could have been written anytime within the past few decades. The style and the lyrics (“I took out a loan on my empty heart, babe”) are, in the strictest sense of the word, original; nonetheless, they sound exhausted, and this generic feeling seeps into the whole album. Guitarist Peter Hayes and bassist Robert Levon Been trade lead vocals back and forth, but it’s difficult to notice the switch. Both have the exact amount of raspiness and vowel-slurring expected of a rock singer; instead of being an asset...
...group of Harvard students travelled to the Abbott Laboratories facility in Worcester, Mass., yesterday afternoon to protest the pharmaceutical company’s recent decision not to allow Thailand’s government to produce generic versions of its Kaletra AIDS drug. The protest, organized by the Harvard chapter of the National Student AIDS Coalition, was timed to coincide with the Illinois-based pharmaceutical company’s shareholder meeting today. In January, Thailand issued a “compulsory license” that would have allowed companies to produce generic versions of Kaletra and Aluvia, another AIDS drug...
...patent for a newly discovered HIV drug to pharmaceutical giant Bristol-Myers Squibb, making the drug unaffordable for most patients in developing countries. In 2001, a group of Yale students formed Universities Allied for Essential Medicine and pressured their university and Bristol-Myers to allow the distribution of a generic version that same year. Asking the audience, “Are you going to take this from a Yalie?” Kim urged Harvard students to join the effort in pushing universities to amend licensing policies for new drugs so that the poor are ensured access to the fruits...