Word: pilling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...lawyers--Joseph Flom of New York's Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom and Martin Lipton of New York's Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz--are jousting in a Delaware court over the legality of the "poison pill" corporate take-over defense...
...article in the June 1984 Review, a Harvard law student defended the "poison pill" practice. Ironically, the student, whom the Review refuses to name, worked as a summer associate at Wachtell, Lipton, which is defending the practice in court...
...bill, almost identical to one already adopted by the Senate, that will speed up approvals of generic drugs by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). In the past, companies wishing to sell generic versions of drugs marketed after 1962 had to submit detailed scientific studies to demonstrate the pills' safety and effectiveness, even though they were merely copies of medicines already being sold. Under the new law, firms need only show that their generic pills are the chemical equivalents of brand-name drugs and deliver the same amount of medicine with the same speed into the bloodstream. Because...
...savings for consumers−potentially $1 billion over the next twelve years, according to the FDA. Generic drugs already on the market usually cost much less than their brand-name counterparts. At one Dallas pharmacy last week, customers had to pay $8.79 for 20 tablets of Lomotil, an antidiarrhea pill made by G.D. Searle. But the same amount of medication was available under its generic name, diphenoxylate, for only $3.29. In one New York City drugstore, a medicine for high blood pressure made by Ciba-Geigy called Apresoline cost $15 per 100 tablets; its generic equivalent, hydralazine, went...
...chapter on birth control, Greer maintains that, far from having modernized contraception to make it clean, safe, and unobtrusive, women remain dependent on outmoded, unpleasant and sometimes harmful devices. The side effects of the pill and the IUD are well-known, but Greer presses on to find fault with that most revered and safe contraceptive, the diaphragm. It's so messy, she says--and cumbersome, and inconvient. Few disagreements from the general public there. But at this point, for this embattled author, only a graphic description will suffice...