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...less expensive version. Dyazide is just one of many bestselling brand-name drugs with no competitors. Reason: U.S. law has made it costly and time consuming for companies to get the Government's go-ahead to market so-called generic copies of brand-name drugs. That regulatory roadblock has thwarted competition and cost consumers untold millions of dollars...
...make money less of a weapon, Activist Stern is lobbying to include the offices of Congressman and Senator in the legislation that this year will provide $130 million in tax revenue for presidential candidates. Several bills now before Congress provide for public financing. But there is a practical roadblock on Capitol Hill: incumbents, who receive 77% more in PAC donations than challengers, have no desire to vote away their built-in advantage...
...Shannon has the talent to do some damage but he has a roadblock in terms of media noise, the Olympics and the conventions," said political consultant Michael Goldman. "It'll be much harder to break through...
Beyond this, many of the markings in books don't make any sense at all. Users of highlighter pens often resort to the "roadblock method"--just as police road-blocks stop every fifth car, these people highlight every fifth sentence. "I have never forgotten it. They charged thirty-five cents," read a highlit sentence in one book. I hope someone remembered that one for an exam...
...doctor, at least, knew where he was. By now the Marines had set up a roadblock at the coastal bridge leading into Queen's Park. A Soviet diplomat who found himself there seemed less sure than the doctor of his whereabouts. Boris Nikolayev, who described himself as an economic counselor, stood with a letter in hand. He was visibly nervous. He leaned against his shiny black Mercedes-Benz with an aide, waving the letter he wished to deliver to the head of the country, whoever that was. One Soviet embassy official had been wounded. "It was not direct shooting...