Word: pound
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...vote of 7-2, however, the courts decided that if Trudeau were to proceed, he would not be violating the letter of the law. As the earnest students who haunt Langdell and Roscoe Pound would say, the bottom legal line is all that counts...
...spite of the several animal research bills pending before Congress, including the well-supported Research Modernization Act, Harvard researchers seem most concerned by activity at the state level to restrict the use of pound animals. "Most of the concern seems to be with dogs and particularly so-called pound animals," said Dr. A. Clifford Barger, Pfeiffer Professor of Physiology...
...state Pound Seizure Law allows medical research institutions to obtain pound animals for use in experimentation. Under provisions of the law, the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (SPCA) retains inspection rights of all animal research...
Barger, who as chairman of the Med School's animal committee in 1957 helped write the pound bill, uses dogs for his research on hypertension, which he says afflicts between 30 40 million Americans and can lead to heart failure, renal failure and strokes. He simulates renal-vascular hypertension in dogs by means of a surgically implanted cuff that puts pressure on the renal artery...
...several groups, including the state's SPCA and the New England Anti-vivisection Society, are attempting to repeal the pound law. Dr. Ronald Hunt, director of the center and professor of Comparative Pathology, is coordinating an effort by several Boston area medical schools to thwart this attempt...