Word: genericizing
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...distribution of cheap alternatives to the AIDS drugs marketed by Western pharmaceutical corporations, which are often priced beyond the reach of most HIV patients in the developing world. Castro also vowed to put Cuba's pharmaceutical industry to work on helping countries such as South Africa and Brazil manufacture generic versions of the drug treatments patented by Western pharmaceutical corporations...
...between cunning idiocies about the title "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" (he said it "sounds like something Siegfried and Roy do on vacation"), Martin addressed a generic suspicion about Hollywood. "Eight hundred million people," he said, "are thinking the same thought: that we're all gay." If so, it's because the publicity on the stars' gowns has turned much of the Oscar Night audience into Mr. Blackwells: What are these beautiful people wearing and how awful do they look? And, this year: How can they go to so much trouble finding chic clothes but forget to apply a little mousse...
Sixth Generation films, with their flat, generic titles (The Days, Postman, Platform), are about ordinary people: sufferers and inflicters of suffering, men of the street and ladies of the evening. There is little facial or verbal inflection, and few dramatic gestures, unless someone is smoking (and in Chinese films, everybody smokes, all the time). All these movies drop one big hint: in a totalitarian society, where anyone may be a government snitch, it's best to keep one's feelings and agenda hidden. To speak up, to shout or plead, is to be noticed; to be noticed is to risk...
...deadly stalemate seems to be breaking up. Last week, even as the big pharmaceutical companies went to court to keep generic copies of their drugs out of South Africa, one of the biggest of these, Merck, announced it would slash prices of two of its major AIDS drugs, Crixivan and Stocrin, an additional 40% to 55%. Other drug giants--including GlaxoSmithKline and Bristol-Myers Squibb--immediately signaled they would follow suit...
...drugmakers couched their action in philanthropic terms, but the companies have more than their reputations at stake. Generic drugmakers, like India's Cipla Ltd. and Hetero Drugs, have already offered three-drug combos for $350 to $600 a year per patient, 40% less than the best prices offered in developing countries by Western firms...