Word: minimart
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...distant future, Harvard students will encounter a new, but altogether familiar minimart on the corner of John F. Kennedy and Mt. Auburn Streets...
...Lorain, Ohio, a racially mixed, economically strained town of 70,000, are looking for explanations. They are talking about the growing gang violence, the drug syndicates from New York City and Detroit that use Lorain as a drop point, the 11-year-old boy who held up a minimart at gunpoint last September and turned out to have had 46 previous encounters with the police. The townspeople, especially the young, "don't believe there's a future," says school superintendent Thomas Bollin. "At least they don't act like they believe there's a future...
Reidy's minicart sold mostly by word of mouth until he found the right check-out line at last year's International Gift Fair in New York. Maybe you can't take it to a minimart, but with a plastic liner, the chrome-plated version can be used as a wine cooler, a salad bowl or even a purse. Reidy says some Rolls-Royce dealers give the 24-carat gold-plated model to upscale Santas, who use it to deliver a set of car keys. Sales so far: 15,000. If you can afford it, check...
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