Word: generics
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Generic personal: We are two guys looking for two girls for some generic good times. No brand names, please...
...Generic drugs contain exactly the same ingredients as name-brand medicines, so they provide handsome savings -- right? Maybe not always, according to a new study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association. The review of 891,862 prescriptions dispensed in 39 states found that while pharmacists invariably paid much less at wholesale for the generic drugs, they often marked up the prices of generics much more sharply than those of name brands. In some cases consumers paid even more for generics than for name brands. For example, generic conjugated estrogens cost less than the equivalent Premarin brand only...
...Arab-Jewish problem is geographic--who will live where, under whose sovereignty--and the only solution to it is political. Real, apolitical hatreds may not run as deep as Shipler suggests. On the Israeli side, at least, animosity toward Arabs is not generic. A poll Shipler cites in another context showed that while Syrian Arabs were perceived as being violent by 57.6 percent of Israelis, only 20.7 per cent viewed Egyptian Arabs as violent after Egypt signed a peace treaty with Israel. That's roughly the same percentage of Israelis who viewed Israelis as violent...
During off-the-cuff taste tests conducted around Harvard Yard yesterday, the taste of the caramel-colored beverage was described as something close to "boiled Pepsi", "soy sauce" and "generic supermarket soda." Jolt is advertised as being "inspired by the need for a better tasting soft drink...
...much the same way, Chicago's Gray urges tolerance toward Harvard, even of the university's dismal record on hiring and promoting female faculty, an imperfection she sees as generic to U.S. universities. With so many fine schools in America, Gray says, there is no way that even Harvard can in everything "be dominant or that in every area it will maintain the same degree of excellence." In fact, she has little patience with the question of who may be No. 1. "The competition is tougher than it was, say, 50 years ago. It doesn't mean Harvard...