Word: genericism
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...Brazil, the government has sidestepped drug companies' patent claims by actively promoting generic drugs. Today, Brazilians comprise more than half the 230,000 citizens of poor countries currently taking retroviral drugs. Dr. Kennedy believes this trend will spill over into other countries, including China, creating a surging generic market. It's also quite possible, he adds, that scientists in those countries will simply use samples of the drugs to create their own, far less expensive versions...
...mind being called an "urban realist," but doesn't know what he'd call himself: "In a way I'd rather just get on with it and call it something afterwards." In Westway he depicts a scene under a motorway, the curve of the road cutting off a generic blue sky. On the nearest strut is a thick accretion of graffiti, and greenery struggles for life. The harsh contrast of light and dark is reminiscent of art of the 1940s, but Free explains this is the light of early morning, when he often takes photographs. Free, 30, has "become obsessed...
...kept returning to an instant message conversation I had with a friend from school, a conversation which took place earlier in the month while checking my e-mail. “So what are you doing for the summer?” he asked as our conservation regressed into generic IM small talk. I proudly replied “ABSOLUTELY NOTHING” and continued to explain that my summer would be spent at home. Here, absolutely nothing actually meant a lot: I would commit to working a local job, writing for the WomenINColor play and wholly familiarizing myself with...
...emphasis is on balance. John Jones, vice president of legal and regulatory affairs for Prescription Solutions, a pharmacy benefit management company argues for the middle ground. "We need a more generous prescription plan but we also need to control the dispensation of drugs," he says. He advocates pushing generic alternatives to high-profile, high-cost name brand drugs, and urges everyone to be realistic. "This isn't a giveaway for everyone who says, 'I want no deductible and all the drugs I've ever wanted.' The country could never afford that - so Congress is trying to put together something that...
...kept at arm's length from the organization's deepest networks. U.S. officials told the Washington Post that al Muhajir was not part of Zubaydah's inner circle, and that they were able to find him even though the Bin Laden lieutenant had alluded to the American only in "generic terms" - although, presumably, there aren't too many Puerto Ricans from Brooklyn knocking around in militant Islamic circles in Pakistan...