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...sound track), live together as rebellious college students (psychedelic rock), marry to satisfy their parents and eventually divorce. The bouffant hairdos and nerdy wisecracks lend fun to the flashbacks, but Daly and Gordon face such predictable life crises that one might be reading a textbook on the generic baby boomer. Almost Grown will not reach maturity until it addresses more individual, and compelling, problems...
Most students don't understand that words such as "fag," "dyke," and "queer" are not just generic swear words; they are slurs against a specific community...
...several years after a patent filing to win approval from the Food and Drug Administration. That gives competitors, who have access to the filing, time to tinker with a patented compound and make it different enough to qualify as a new drug. Growing, too, are the ranks of generic-drug producers who do little or no research and sell copies of older drugs at deep discounts. Their share of the $28.3 billion-a-year U.S. market for prescription drugs is likely to double by 1990, from $1 billion in 1987. Name-brand drugmakers like Merck must produce or perish...
...business without really lying. In a field where inflated claims by sales representatives are notorious, he bars his 5,000 "detail men," as drug-industry salespeople are known, from making claims they cannot substantiate with scientific data. He also does not allow them to bad-mouth other companies' cheaper generic drugs...
...companies, has been raising prices dramatically and has introduced new drugs at shockingly high prices." Even drugs whose patents have long expired remain expensive. A bottle of 60 25-mg tablets of Merck's arthritis- fighting Indocin sells in New York City for $28, vs. $12 for an equivalent generic brand...