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Fluconazole

Fluconazole detonates in Josh's bullpen interrogation, its name spat like shrapnel: 'What are your annual sales of Fluconazole alone?' Donna leans in, Josh presses—numbers cascade, exposing profits that mock Kenyan cops' $43 monthly wages. No tablets gleam under fluorescent lights; the antifungal's invisible bulk fuels Roosevelt Room fury, spokesmen deflect as Nimbala's translators absorb the corporate calculus, tension spiking with each evaded dollar figure.

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When this object appears and how it's used

2 moments

S2E4 · In This White House

The Price of Life: Josh Maps Drug Economics

Fluconazole erupts as damning evidence when Nimbala demands annual sales figures—a billion dollars—highlighting pharma profits amid African desperation, piercing corporate deflections and amplifying Toby's racial calculus by quantifying lucrative antifungals against inaccessible AIDS cures.

Before: Abstract reference in negotiation lexicon

After: Weaponized statistic lingering in room's ethical tension

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S2E4 · In This White House

Roosevelt Room Breakdown: When Ethics Collide With Cost

Fluconazole erupts as damning evidence when Nimbala demands annual sales figures from Alan, answered with 'a billion dollars,' igniting Toby's profane indictment of profit priorities favoring erections over black AIDS deaths, embodying lucrative Western markets versus African desperation.

Before: Abstract reference in pharma knowledge

After: Weaponized statistic amplifying moral outrage

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