Word: impacting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Still, City Councillor Sheila T. Russell said that though students have run in the past, they do not have the same impact on the campaign as do incumbents or other more politically active candidates...
...Cantabrigians] are familiar with the issues and the environment. I don't think that someone who is living in Cambridge temporarily should try to make a huge impact on the city," Russell said...
...would probably bring up different issues [than what we deal with now]," Russell said. "But he would not have a huge impact...
...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...
...Serre-de-la-Fare dam was finally canceled in 1994, and two others are in jeopardy. One smaller dam was built, but Jean believes the ecological impact will be limited. She is now turning her attention to fighting a plan to enlarge the port of Nantes-St. Nazaire, which would destroy wetlands in the Loire estuary...