Word: genericizing
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...professor puppets. Each professor is represented by his or her own puppet, which is made with a large, elaborate Styrofoam head meant to look as much as possible like the faculty member. In contrast, the puppet students are comprised of socks on tubes. “The students look generic and interchangeable, as the professors see them,” Gallicchio explains...
...takes a considerable amount of creative panache to assemble an eye-catching outfit from the Square’s generic clothing stores. However, there’s one place on campus where everyone seems to have that certain je ne sais quoi. Romance Languages teaching fellows are so jaw-droppingly stylish that their students may find it hard to concentrate on their verb declensions. The department imports graduate students and their sense of style from all over the world. FM imported two of these style-savvy TFs to survey the budget holiday shopping scene in the Square. Generous as well...
...attending a summit on the World Trade Organization’s Trade-Related Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) Agreement, and many activist groups, including Oxfam, Student Global Aids Campaign and the Harvard Aids Coalition, are concerned he will push for patent protections. This move would prevent the manufacture of the generic medications that millions of people in the developing world, where patented medicines are prohibitively expensive, depend on in order to survive...
...have doubled promotional spending, to $19 billion. Half that money goes toward free samples, and nearly a third is spent pitching those pills to physicians at work or after hours. And--surprise!--studies show that doctors who spend more time with drug reps are less likely to prescribe cheaper generic drugs. So whether salesmen chat up physicians over a slice of pizza or during a dinner cruise is drawing the attention of legislators trying to bring down prescription-drug costs, which have risen 30% since 1996--nearly twice the rate of inflation. The industry's sudden call to heal itself...
...Generic data are collected and passed along to others via an annual report, or through person-to-person feedback when appropriate. This has been helpful at the medical area schools in demonstrating patterns of problems that the faculty and administration have used when considering the development of policies...