President Thomas Okarma, speaking on behalf of the Biotechnology Industry Organization, underscored the numerous benefits of human cloning research and expressed opposition to the all-out ban.

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Certainly popular today, especially among young gun buyers more familiar perhaps with Call of Duty than the deer blind, an all-out ban on modern sporting rifles could dent the industry.

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Hence India refuses to sign the Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty and has ruled out signing a Comprehensive Test Ban, unless all other nuclear powers do.

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Republicans are outraged at what they regard as Mr Berger's vindictive, partisan and intellectually shallow attacks, pointing out the absurdity of labelling all Republicans as isolationists when opponents of the test-ban treaty included many of the most internationally-minded senators.

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In particular, it might have made life easier for those who run our biggest banks if the FSA had imposed a ban on all cash bonuses - in that if none can pay in cash (as opposed to paying out in shares or subordinated debt) then they would not have to worry about losing people to rivals down the road.

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