Word: damming
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...India's Medha Patkar is a passionate critic of big dam projects, especially the one scheduled for the Narmada Valley, which will submerge 245 villages and uproot 100,000 people. Taking a leaf from Mahatma Gandhi's book, she has organized hunger strikes, demonstrations, sit-ins, roadblocks and rallies. A measure of her success: the World Bank has ordered an independent review of the environmental impact of the Narmada dam and plans for resettling villagers, prompting foreign investors to delay releasing fresh funds...
Just days before Aramony resigned, the United Way's executive committee gave him a unanimous vote of confidence. But when philanthropist Walter Annenberg, who donated more than $400,000 to United Way chapters last year, urged him to step down, a psychological dam broke. Aramony submitted his resignation Wednesday night, telling the executive committee in a letter that he was leaving "for the greater good of the organization...
According to Shiva, a dam is being built on the Ganges River in India at the expense of the people of the area. As a result, Shiva said, hundreds are now displaced from their homes...
Salmon lovers call completion of Grand Coulee Dam in 1941 one of the darkest moments for the fish. As 27-kg (60-lb.) "June hogs" made their summer migration upstream that year, following their unwavering instinct to return to the streams where they were born, thousands perished when they flung themselves against the unyielding concrete. But even the staunchest fish advocates realize that the June hogs are gone forever and the dams are here to stay. Biologists are optimistic, however, that a strong recovery plan can bring other salmon species back from the brink within 20 years. Leslie Clark...
...especially in Poland," says former Congressman Edward Derwinski, a Polish-speaking expert on Eastern Europe who counseled the Administration and met with Casey frequently. "He was convinced the system was falling and doomed to collapse one way or another -- and Poland was the force that would lead to the dam breaking. He demanded a constant ((CIA)) focus on Eastern Europe. It wasn't noticed, because other stories were more controversial and were perking at the moment -- Nicaragua and Salvador...