Word: minis
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...This is a mini-Alaska," declared New York Attorney General Robert Abrams, referring to last year's 11 million-gal. spill from the Exxon Valdez...
...Stuart left his room and walked to a nearby all-night mini-convenience store attached to a Mobil station. The clerks, who pay attention to late-night customers out of fear they might be robbed, remember that he was dressed in a black pullover sweater with white trim and black slacks and purchased soda and a snack. "He was grinning from ear to ear," says Stephen Newcomb. "He was very up, very bubbly and very friendly, but very weird." As Stuart left the store, he turned, still smiling, and asked if the store was open all night. The attendants answered...
...would accuse Bush of invading Panama merely to prove his manhood. (Although after Grenada, the Falklands and now this, an early mini-war is probably turning into a standard expectation for future Western leaders.) In fact, it is hard to quarrel with the invasion's success...
Lonesome Dove (CBS, 1989). Just when the epic mini-series seemed to have bitten the dust, this vivid and lyrical adaptation of Larry McMurtry's novel of a Western cattle drive, led by a grizzled Robert Duvall, brought the genre rousingly back to life. Twenty-nine-and-a-half hours of War and Remembrance put it to sleep again...