Word: groupe
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...RIAA, the music industry's main trade group, announced that Wednesday that it is dropping its lawsuits over the Rio portable MP3 player. The end of litigation comes after a San Francisco federal appeals court ruled in June that the Rio is not subject to 1992 federal anti-piracy laws...
...Point alone uses a million gallons a minute. Fish small enough to slip through the meshes are killed at once. Larger fish are impaled on the screens and killed or maimed. Riverkeeper has forced Indian Point to install $25 million worth of fish-saving equipment, and in 1994 the group successfully sued to make the Environmental Protection Agency set official safety standards for power plants...
...without a price. To get big yields, farmers rely on pesticides and nitrogen fertilizers, which can seep below the surface and taint groundwater. That's why Seacrest, 45, launched the Groundwater Foundation, a group that uses everything from publications to educational festivals to teach people about threats to drinking water. Started on a shoestring in 1985 in Lincoln, the foundation has built a national network of activists to protect the fountains of life...
...should take a spin in her antiquated Renault. Most of the windows don't roll down; the passenger-side door opens only from the outside; and the paint is pocked with rust. But Jean doesn't care. All her $60,000 prize money went to Loire Vivante, the umbrella group she has headed since 1987. Its mission: blocking a gargantuan dam-building project that could have destroyed beautiful landscape and fragile ecosystems surrounding Europe's last wild river...
...antidam groups got funding from the World Wildlife Fund-France and formed Loire Vivante. Jean, then an unemployed single mother, was named its first coordinator in early 1987. Among her first acts was to organize environmental-impact studies showing that the dams would harm water quality, threaten biodiversity, destroy several villages, displace hundreds of people--and still fail to provide good protection against flooding. In 1989 the group launched its most spectacular and effective action: the occupation of the Serre-de-la-Fare site by several hundred ecologists who camped in tents, cooked over open fires, strummed guitars--and blocked...