Word: minis
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...begin with, there is the role of the Carter Center in Atlanta, which has some 200 employees working on projects around the world full time. The former President will not use the words "mini-State Department" to describe his operation. But he does say, "We analyze the major conflicts of the world. So if we get an unexpected opportunity to deal with a problem, we don't have to start from scratch. In a few hours, I can have on my desk here a fairly sophisticated briefing...
Others actually had mini-adventures at dinner time. "We went to the Hong Kong, got the menu and everything, and then decided we didn't want to eat there, so my roommate told the waiter that we had an emergency at the airport," recounts Todd A. Bangerter '98, "Then we went to Chef Chow's, where we had eaten just the night before. In fact, they recognized us because I had left a package there Wednesday night and had to go back...
Cambridge Mini-mall...
...time with his family, in whom he takes obvious delight: baby-sitting his grandchildren and dining at home with his wife Alma (who doesn't want him to run). After a lifetime of Army housing, he likes being what he calls "General Harry Homeowner" in his $1.3 million mini-mansion in a Washington suburb. The general's missions: repairing drywall to fix water damage from an upstairs shower and messing around with the antique Volvos he loves to restore. Sometimes the papers he sends back to his office-he works mostly from home-have grease stains. Since leaving the Pentagon...
...Princeton match was tougher than the score would indicate. In a mini-upset, the Tigers had easily beaten Western Ontario (which was the odds--on favorite to face Harvard in the finals) in the other semi-final match. This win, coupled with the close 6-3 Harvard victory against Princeton on February 5 (the Crimson's tightest match of the year), set the stage for a true battle...