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WHAT THE MERGER essentially means is that we will all live under the generic name of Harvard. Now "Harvard" has a neatness of form that "Harvard-Radcliffe" undeniably lacks. It makes better copy, and far be it from me to deny the importance of that. Nor do I doubt that the corresponding "administrative complications" of hyphenation to which Rosovsky refers are many and awkward. But these are awkward times in which we live, and they call for more profound redress than a civil ceremony can provide...
...question is anything but clear cut," Wacker said. "Some generic brands are as good as name brands," he said, and added it is up to the pharmacist and the physician to know which generic products are acceptable...
Edward Nassiff, a retail pharmacist and member of the five-man registration board, said yesterday he too opposes advertising. "It would initially increase the sale of cheaper generic products at the expense of brand name firms," he said. "But once the generic pharmaceutical houses gain control of the market, they will raise prices...
...CENTRAL HIGHLANDS of Vietnam live perhaps a million people from 33 non-Vietnamese tribes. Ethnic Vietnamese once called the tribesmen Moi--"savages"--but the French called them Montagnards, and the word stuck as a generic term, even though the tribesmen continued to think of themselves as members of individual villages, not a larger mountain culture...
...Massachusetts doctor can legally prescribe a brand name, but must write the generic name with...