Word: genericism
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...remarkable 41 percent profit margin in Africa, more than double the 20 percent profit margin it reaps in North America. Of the $261 million Coke made in Africa in 2001 alone, $4 to 5 million (the estimated costs of full coverage for the entire workforce assuming negotiated prices of generic drugs) could easily be allocated for the treatment program, especially considering the $70 million Coke paid for Christina Aguilera’s endorsement...
...white-bread as always, and staler than ever. By this time "Bandstand" had moved from its original location in Philadelphia (100 miles north of Baltimore) to Los Angeles, where the kids had better bodies and deeper tans, and even the white-ethnic tinge of the teen dancers disappeared into generic good looks. Frankie Avalon went west and turned into Troy Donahue...
...Shaiman has written a few generic Broadway tunes, in the High Generic mode - simple, singable, reverberative, just like Brooks' songs for "The Producers." And toward the end of the show he seems to realize he's run out of early-60s musical signatures to filch from. So in the last two songs he steals from 70s retro-rock. "Cooties" is nothing but Steve Martin's "King Tut." The finale, which brings the entire female company together to sing "You Can't Stop the Beat," begins as yet another Spector classic, "River Deep Mountain High," the raids pretty much the entire...
...example, the main page now features links to each of the University’s schools. Instead of labeling these links with the formal name of the school, more generic names are provided—the Faculty of Arts and Sciences website, for instance, is called “college/graduate...
Before this program, students had to foot the bill for the first $750 of their drugs. Now, students will be able to pay small co-payments—$10 for generic drugs and $20 for brand name drugs—for up to $3,750 worth of prescriptions...