Word: genericizing
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...crooked network, centered in New York City, Chicago and Atlanta, reportedly used several grifts. The simpler versions included billing Medicaid for prescriptions that were never filled or substituting cheaper generic drugs while billing Medicaid for higher-priced alternatives. But the operation also did a brisk business in reselling drugs. A doctor, for example, would prescribe medicine for a healthy Medicaid beneficiary, who would fill the prescription at a crooked pharmacy. The "patient" would then sell the medicine for about 10% of its value to a "diverter," who would repackage and resell it, often on the black market in Puerto Rico...
...treated with clozapine have died from the condition. Although that is considered a low fatality rate, it is still enough to make mental-health professionals nervous. They worry that the uncertainty and risks might jump in 1994, when Sandoz loses its exclusive license to manufacture clozapine. The appearance of generic versions of the drug may be a boon for cash-strapped families, but it raises the specter of fewer controls -- and more deaths...
...there any immaculate sorority houses with teddy bear wallpaper and plush pink carpets. And there are very few generic college dorms, with long communal hallway, box-like cinderblock bedrooms and bathrooms shared by the entire floor...
...Joshua Judges Ruth, the weirdness is harder to laugh off. The lyrics are gaunt and elusive, the melodies so familiar as to be generic, the arrangements as spare and naked as the sentiments. The album's intertwined themes are keyed in its title: three books from the Old Testament -- the all-time best seller of wrath and reconciliation -- that pun on a man's need to pass stern judgment on women...
...exquisite ensemble number Sunday Morning, a lilting series of one- and two-line vignettes recalls the everyday normality that the contestants once enjoyed and that the Depression destroyed. But while Nagle Jackson's book is shrewdly and tightly constructed, his lyrics frequently sound clankingly obvious and unrevealingly generic ("We found the Depression depressing, and so we just went on dancing...