Word: agha
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Agha, who heads the Cambridge Committee for Responsible Research, said the measure was an attempt to "open places to public scrutiny...
Steven M. Wise, a member of the mayor's blue ribbon committee on the treatment of animals in Cambridge laboratories, and Gul Agha, founder of the Cambridge Committee for Responsible Research, submitted proposed ordinances to regulate animal care and use in laboratories to the council for consideration...
Founded in 1973 by Agha Hasan Abedi, a native of Pakistan, BCCI operates 400 branches in 73 countries. The bank is owned by just 51 shareholders, including members of the Saudi royal family. Among the BCCI officers arrested last week were top managers of the bank's Panamanian, Latin American and French divisions...
Meanwhile, senior Clyvan Belle and freshman Ali Agha were bowling very good Harvard innings, keeping the ball inside on the leg stump...
Others worry about the animals themselves. Yale Lecturer Gul Agha, founder of a watchdog group called the Cambridge Committee for Responsible Research, is concerned about the quality of life for the new breeds. Producing a cow that gives three times as much milk as a normal Guernsey, he notes, could mean producing a cow that lives in acute discomfort. Says he: "We have the prospect of creating animals that may be in continual agony." Others fret that the release of genetically engineered animals, such as fatter mice or more aggressive game fish, might result in ecological disaster...