Word: genericizing
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...what he recognizes to be the jaws of a largish animal, one that perished some 24 million years ago. But what kind of animal? The others gather around, including Archer, who's one of Australia's best at classifying - all but instantly - what would look to most people like generic bone. "The finest specimen of a marsupial lion jaw that's ever been found," he declares. It seems to have belonged, he explains later, to a previously unknown, intermediate species of this most ferocious marsupial - a link between the cat-sized Priscileo and the leopard-sized Wakaleo - whose lineage coexisted...
...pharmaceutical giant Pfizer says it's having a difficult time selling the real thing. Last week Pfizer's job grew even tougher. China's State Intellectual Property Office (SIPO) overturned the company's patent rights to Viagra, potentially opening the Chinese market to a flood of cheap, locally made generic rivals...
...Charles is in town/ Let?s mess around till the midnight hour/ See what he?s puttin? down? - that prefigures no fewer than three Atlantic songs: Charles? own ?Let the Good Times Roll? and ?Mess Around? and Wilson Pickett?s ?In the Midnight Hour.? The song ends with generic barks (?Come on! Come on, child!?) that are pretty much grunts with consonants. A listener needs no English to get the message: a man?s desperate yearning in the tantalizingly remote face of God or Woman...
Instead of a generic career path, Chase moved back to Nantucket and opened her first restaurant, which she named “Que Sera Sarah.” The store name was ambiguous enough to reflect a variety of endeavors, Chase says. In this way, she reasoned, if the food venture failed, she could turn it into something else and retain the name...
...INDICATORS Drug Bust Investigators in Italy named 4,713 people, 4,400 of them doctors, for allegedly taking bribes from British drug firm GlaxoSmithKline to prescribe Glaxo drugs rather than cheaper or generic alternatives. A similar probe in Germany two years ago saw several then employees fined; earlier this month, a Munich court gave one person a fine and a two-year suspended prison sentence...