Word: minis
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...hoped to debut later this year, but it was forced to ! delay the launch after cable systems representing 6 million homes, citing rate restrictions, backed out of a commitment to carry it. Ovation, a proposed fine-arts network, and the History Channel, offering documentaries and historical movies and mini-series, both plan a January launch but are having a hard time building up a subscriber base. "The way the rules are structured today," says Barry Rosenblum, president of Time Warner Cable of New York, "cable operators are only motivated to launch services that are unregulated. And those...
This was a tale better told than typed, Humphreys decided. Bolton bought a $27 mini-tape recorder at Wal-Mart, and for two months, twice a week, she went to the novelist's office and acted out her autobiography. "It was like watching a movie," says Humphreys. "She'd turn on the tape, and she was just gone." The experience gave both women a strenuous emotional workout. When Bolton brought in a photograph of Daddy, now dead, Humphreys felt her stomach wrench. Facing floods of tears without Kleenex, she ripped up a bed sheet...
Severe invasive group a streptococcus is the official scientific name, but labels like "deadly flesh-eating bacteria" can be too deliciously terrifying to resist. That's what British tabloids decided when they learned that the germ had caused a mini-outbreak of lethal infections in Gloucestershire last month, bringing the death toll in England and Wales for this particularly virulent form of strep to 11 for the year. The papers fanned fears with such headlines as EATEN ALIVE and KILLER BUG ATE MY FACE. And when a handful of cases, including at least one death, were reported...
What made the team's disappointment all the greater was that its inability to fulfill expectations was not a cause of collective malaise so much as a series of bizarre incidents which seemed to be taken from a foul episode of the 60's comic mini-series "Bewitched...
Harvard went on to win its first five games before it hit a mini-slump (2-3-1) from the end of November through mid-December...