Word: genericizing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Paul, who mentions that the risen Jesus appeared "to the Twelve," not the Eleven. None of the canonical Gospels, however, follow Paul's lead; yet the variety of their Resurrection stories is both convincing and unnerving. Most of them have a grainy credibility; at least one (Matthew's) seems generic and manufactured. Paul's account, in I Corinthians 15, was written some 25 years after Jesus' death and precedes Mark by perhaps a decade...
...previous album. To the album's credit, Jay-Z, Usher, Snoop and Missy Elliott are featured, although Jay-Z seems to be wanting nave Annie-esque samples for counterpoint--not that Mariah sounds particularly world-weary when she sings about her "Heartbreaker" boyfriend. And Rainbow is so mainstream, so generic, that Snoop and Missy Elliott sound like animals in a porcelain party. Your Tupperware and slumber party crowd will do far better to rent The Rainbow Connection...
...benefit for drugs. And in New Hampshire, Republican Senator John McCain, who is moving up in the polls against front runner George W. Bush, expressed concern that some drug companies were using sneaky legislative maneuvers to extend their lucrative patents on pharmaceutical drugs--a move that would keep cheaper generic drugs from consumers. For their part, congressional Democrats held a pep rally last week to show they care about the problem. One speaker: senatorial wannabe Hillary Rodham Clinton...
...Gore doesn't mince words when it comes to pushing for cheaper prescription drugs. So it makes sense that he opposes efforts by pharmaceuticals companies to extend their patent rights in order to block cheaper generic drugs from reaching the market...
...clock ticking on its 17-year patent. Schering-Plough also says Claritin profits help fund research for new drugs. But, its opponents counter, what about Claritin patients--who pay as much as $2.66 a dose instead of the 50[cents] or less they would pay, analysts figure, if a generic version of the drug were available? If the patent expires on time, according to a University of Minnesota study funded in part by the generic-drug industry, consumers could save $7.33 billion over five years. Those arguments helped persuade Montana G.O.P. Senator Conrad Burns, who faces a tough re-election...