Word: genericizing
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...cigarettes is more than $3. Here, with state taxes, it's 50 cents. If we added a buck (still lower than Germany and about the same as France), we'd raise $20 billion a year. Anyone who didn't want to pay could switch to one of the cheaper "generic" brands (only 13% have so far) and save much of the tax that way; smoke less; or quit. Side benefits: high prices deter kids from becoming smokers; the more people who quit, the better their health and the lower America's health-care costs...
Richard F. Elmore, Chair of the Administration Planning and Social Policy Department at the School of Education, said most applicants already have the "basic generic skills" that employers seek...
...resistance. Tim Monison as Dr. Wally is a gleefully bumbling doctor straight out of vaudeville. Nance Williamson as Lee is a perfectly caffeinated, bleached blonde graduate from cosmetology school. Mary Diveny's Ruth, unfocused, distracted, nearly helpless, is compassionately endearing. Mark Rosenthal's sincerity renders eloquent even the rather generic words of the rebellious teenager Hank: "people start thinking of you a certain way--and pretty soon you're there...
...European countries were advising Washington to be nice to Iraq and would have resisted, out of fear or Arab solidarity, any drive toward containment. The U.S. did not sell arms directly to Iraq. The dual-use equipment sold by the U.S. was not cutting-edge technology but rather more generic items and processes that could have been bought in 10 other countries...
...classical music buffs who are tired of the same old generic sounds of Richter, Brendel, Horowitz of Gilels, Ugorski promises to be a real treat...