Panels will be set up to study what happened and make recommendations.
"It was set up to study something else," said Tim Bonner, a spokesman for the alliance, who described Dr. Harris as a "long-term opponent of us".
Early in 1967 a U.S. Commission set up to study the rise in crime said we must alleviate the conditions that stimulate crime.
If they take it, a committee of all 15 members of the Council will be set up to study the application.
But some of the evidence, particularly involving cancer, has come from trials that were not specifically set up to study survival, making it more difficult to draw definitive conclusions about the risk.
"I don't think the amnesty as proposed will have the capacity to end violence in the Niger Delta," said Dr. Sam Amadi, who was a member of the special government committee set up to study the region's problems.
Chand Khanna, a veterinarian at the National Cancer Institute in charge of the new consortium set up to study drugs in dogs, said some of the trials planned were being done for pharmaceutical companies.
imposes on borrowers is one of the changes Horst Kohler, the new managing director, is weighing as a panel he set up to study the agency's role finishes a draft report.
In arguing that individual teachers play an important role, they rely on evidence that is somewhat indirect, which is inevitable because the Tennessee experiment wasn't set up to study the impact of teacher quality: quite the contrary.
Laura Watt, a sociology researcher at the University of Manchester, analysed data going back to 1990 from the National Survey of Sexual Attitudes and Lifestyles, which was set up to study the spread of sexually transmitted diseases, including HIV.
An international commission set up to study the June 2009 Honduran coup concluded that both former President Manuel Zelaya as well as the political leaders and military officers who overthrew him share blame for how the crisis unfolded.
