Word: nonprofit
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Turner the entrepreneur is increasingly being upstaged by Turner the political activist. In 1985 he founded the Better World Society, a nonprofit organization that produces and distributes programming on environmental issues. A year later, he launched the Goodwill Games to foster better relations between the superpowers following two Olympic boycotts. TNT has aired such advocacy films as Nightbreaker, an antinuclear drama starring Martin Sheen, and Incident at Dark River, in which Mike Farrell (who produced the movie) plays a man whose daughter is killed by toxic waste dumped by a local factory. Currently in production is Captain Planet, a cartoon...
...Hyde founded the nonprofit Institute for Range and the American Mustang in order to create sanctuaries -- retirement homes of sorts -- where unadoptable wild horses could once again roam freely. He convinced BLM that with foundation and public funds he could establish a self-sustaining sanctuary within three years. IRAM's first project was a 12,600-acre sanctuary in the Black Hills of South Dakota that opened last year. Tourists pay $15 to view 300 mustangs running on high plateaus of ponderosa pine. The project makes Hyde smile. "The horses are finally getting over their depression," he says. "They...