Word: adl
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...case is the real opposition between the night of a community to say "no" versus the right of a company with reasonable safety standards to conduct its own research. The inadequate DOD regulations, perhaps more military than medical in their safety concerns, avoid real responsibility for the public safety. ADL, though it spent $1 million on developing the super safe laboratory, cannot shoulder the responsibility for a community's welfare. Then who will...
...little bit closer to home, officials at Arthur D. Little (ADL), a Cambridge-based research firm testing chemical warfare agents for the Department of Defense, have been trying to convince local residents that their research poses no threat to the community's safety. And Cantabrigians aren't believing a word they say. The substances ADL is working with are 10,000 times more lethal than any other chemical currently being tested within Cambridge, one of the nation's leading research centers...
Much to its credit, the City of Cambridge courageously imposed a ban on the testing, storage, and transportation of nerve gas agents within the city limits. Last month, a Middlesex Superior Court judge upheld Cambridge's ordinance, ruling that it was both "reasonable and enforceable." Yet ADL has filed an appeal and could drag the case all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court...
...potential threat of leakage into the atmosphere and a serious erosion of public confidence in its ability to safely test chemical warfare agents. ADL should agree to either forfeit its five contracts with the Department of Defense or get out of Cambridge...
Cambridge has correctly asserted its right as a community to determine what risks it is willing to take. This is not to say that ADL's research does not have some redeeming social value. By testing-hazardous substances, ADL is trying to develop ways to detoxify nerve gas agents and assist in the safe removal of the nation's chemical warfare arsenal. In addition, increased knowledge about chemical warfare agents has led to medical advances in treating various cancers...