Word: genericizing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...there is the generic accusation of incompetence, of ignorance, of failure. The words of Cellucci, Finneran and Silber may have been intended to strike fear into educators, to inspire change and improvement. But without the true commitment to education and the decency to inform the test-takers of their performance first before sharing it with the world, they have only done damage to what is, at its best, truly the most noble profession...
There is no such generic term (yet) for the storage medium that's quickly replacing the standard floppy. Instead, each of the competitors in this booming market is selling its own thing: ultra-high-density floppies by many other names. You've probably heard of the Zip drive, for instance, the purple-hued peripheral from Iomega that reads and writes to 100-meg removable discs. Lots of people use Zips at my office. So, a few months ago, instead of doing a lick of research, I bolted out to the nearest Staples and picked up a Zip drive...
...first it looked little different from other domestic comedies that were starting to make the move from radio to TV, like My Favorite Husband, the radio show Ball had co-starred in for three years. Lucy Ricardo was, in those early I Love Lucy episodes, just a generic daffy housewife. Ethel (Vivian Vance), her neighbor and landlady, was a stock busybody. Desi Arnaz, as bandleader Ricky Ricardo, hadn't yet become one of the finest straight men in TV history. William Frawley, as Fred Mertz, seemed a Hollywood has-been in search of work, which...
...than platitudes. She was for better schools (the hot topic this year), more jobs, less crime and "digital" leadership based on "horizontal" decision-making. Harman is sharper than that, but hasn't often proved it. At a women's political caucus in Concord last month, her appeal was so generic and gender-based--breast-cancer research, abortion rights, child care, and her signature wrap-up line, "May the best woman win"--that some in the audience were left shaking their heads. "She was asking for my vote because we're both female," said Ginny Perez, a plumber who was taking...
...addition, students can get both male and female condoms at the UHS pharmacy and can even get the charges added to their termbills, where they appear as non-traceable, generic "pharmacy" charges--identical to the charges which appear for refills on contact lens solution or cold medicine, for those concerned about confidentiality. In addition, the Center for Wellness recommends that sexually active students have periodic consultations with their physicians--at least once a year for women and variably for men, depending on their behavior...