Word: brandes
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Cheaper prescription drugs - everybody in Washington wanted them last year, and the Republicans had a plan. Pharmacists and drug wholesalers would be allowed to buy American brand-name medicines that had been exported to Canada and other countries where drug prices are controlled. The reimported drugs then could be sold more cheaply to American consumers...
...thinking about Ashcroft for nearly a month, but a senior Bush official told TIME.com on Saturday that the more moderate the Cabinet became last week, the more sense it made to mollify conservatives in one fell swoop. Democrats will concentrate their fire on the Missouri Republican, whose almost-pure brand of conservatism guarantees a sea change at the Department of Justice. But barring a surprise, even Democrats expect Ashcroft will be confirmed...
...arguments. It is about common sense. It is about facts, and it is about what the real world demonstrates." No matter how well you know Boies, these words, the phrasing, the syntax, give no clue to the setting where he is speaking. In court and out, he speaks a brand of English so simple and direct that he sounds like the high school teacher he once thought he would become. It's the way Boies speaks when addressing a judge, the way he speaks in his press conferences, the way he speaks over dinner. "Part of the reason he does...
...Only a cigarette burn," referring to the brand his fraternity gave to new pledges, in 1967 b "Why do you keep writing things down?" to a Times reporter in 1998 c "Freebird!" at a Marshall Tucker Band show, in 1974 d "Was it not Shakespeare's King Richard III who said, 'So wise so young, they say, do never live long...
RETIRING. THE OLDSMOBILE, 103, the first mass-produced American car and a longtime staple of upper-middle-class garages everywhere. After years of efforts at retooling the long-sputtering brand, General Motors announced it would pull the Olds off the road...