Word: generics
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...smile solemnly see direction A / click / great country endeavor great leadership / inspirational fist follow fig. 2 / click / . . . " Such a poem, lacking content and a cohesive style, is hardly a poem at all. It depends for its survival, not on intrinsic merit of interest, but on currency. It makes no generic statement, just a personal snipe, and does this in a thoroughly forgettable form...
...reception encouraged him to co-author The Real Majority. We found ecdysiast, first minted by H.L. Mencken, a delightful way of describing Gypsy Rose Lee, and helped make it a part of the language. The title beatnik, originally bestowed on Bohemian writers in San Francisco, became a generic term in the pages of TIME. McCarthyism and Castroism first came into general use in the magazine, as did Kremlinologist, Sinologist and urbanologist...
...Ebert said he had little influence on one of the issues most troubling to many of the students-the question of "generic" drugs versus brand-name drugs...
...Squibb's largest-selling items, for example, has the registered brand name Pentids (R). The same drug-sold under the generic name penicillin-costs less than 25 per cent as much...
Some medical students-who say they are concerned about the high cost of drugs to consumers-have asked medical schools to encourage the use of generics. One of the students who signed the letter to Ebert-Fred Fox '68-has also asked the Med School to require its professors to use generic names in lectures and other instruction to students...