71.   Empire is also planning to offer small-business customers a new drug discount card next year that will cover only generic drugs.

72.   Earlier this year, BASF said it would sell its generic drug business to Novartis AG of Switzerland.

73.   Executives at generic drug companies and suppliers of pharmaceutical raw materials say Bayer is still at least breaking even and may even be making a large profit.

74.   Expectations of those shipments have already lifted the fortunes of Barr, a generic drug maker based in Pomona, N.Y.

75.   First, the agency was broadsided by an investigation that led to indictments of several FDA officials accused of taking bribes from generic drug makers.

76.   Feinstein said banning these generic AIDS drugs in Africa would have caused needless suffering and death in countries where AIDS is so widespread it is a public health emergency.

77.   For example, the administration supported dozens of patent extensions sought by name-brand drug makers to protect their products from competition from cheaper generic drugs.

78.   For makers of generic drugs, the FDA action is a clear negative.

79.   Frost built Ivax by buying other generic drug and health care companies, usually with Ivax stock.

80.   Generic drug makers and the FDA, however, argued that the Hatch-Waxman law only permitted one extension of a drug patent.