salami slice

See also: salami-slice

English

Verb

salami slice (third-person singular simple present salami slices, present participle salami slicing, simple past and past participle salami sliced)

1. Alternative form of salami-slice
   • 1990 March 2, Thomas G. Wiggans, “[Serono Laboratories, Inc., letter to Henry Arnold Waxman, chairman, Subcommittee on Health and the Environment, regarding replies to statements made at the hearing and answers to questions submitted by members of the Subcommittee]”, in Orphan Drug Act: Hearing before the Subcommittee on Health and the Environment of the Committee on Energy and Commerce, House of Representatives, One Hundred First Congress, Second Session […] (Serial No. 101-130), Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, page 145:

     Congress should not be misled to believe that "salami slicing" indications and off-label prescribing practices will resolve the Act's current inequities. These trends will only proliferate problems with the Act.

   • 2007 March 27, Gale S. Pollock, The State of the Military Health Care System: Hearing before the Military Personnel Subcommittee of the Committee on Armed Services, House of Representatives, One Hundred Tenth Congress, First Session […] (H.S.A.C. No. 110-45), Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, published 2008, →OCLC, page 24:

     So basically it means we are going to take an entire MEDAC out of the ability to contribute to the health care of the men and women and their families in uniform. There is no way that I can salami slice that.

   • 2009, Martin Orridge, “Successfully Managing the Change Project”, in Change Leadership: Developing a Change-adept Organization, Farnham, Surrey: Gower Publishing; Burlington, Vt.: Ashgate Publishing, →ISBN, page 73:

     As project manager it is unlikely that you have all the necessary knowledge and subject matter expertise to undertake this task alone. You will need to involve other people in helping you salami slice the project.

   • 2015 November 19, Sarah Jane Tribble, Sydney Lupkin, quoting Martin Makary, “Drugs For Rare Diseases Have Become Uncommonly Rich Monopolies”, in NPR‎^[1], published 17 January 2017, archived from the original on 26 May 2020:

     By salami slicing the disease into subgroups, it allows them [pharmaceutical companies] to get the orphan drug approval with all the government benefits and even some of the subsidies.