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...Mini Maid Services. In 1973 Homemaker Leone Ackerly, mother of three, wanted to buy a new auto. To earn the money, she hired herself out as a cleaning lady. She has since, as they say, cleaned up. Now 41, Ackerly drives a Jaguar XJ6 and oversees a maid-service empire, based in Marietta, Ga., with 900 employees at 96 franchises in 24 states. Annual revenues: more than $9 million. Mini Maid is about to launch franchises in Germany, Italy and Australia. The secret of Ackerly's success? Says she: "We do one thing one way for one price...
...carpet, battered and bruised by forces beyond its comprehension, awaited the next impact of our mini-wrecking ball. Tiny punctures in its rayon skin were mute testimonials to the kinetic fusion of a warped student wielding two pounds of round, steel government surplus...
...coming months. Next week CBS will air the two-part At Mother's Request, based on Jonathan Coleman's 1985 account of the murder of Salt Lake City Millionaire Franklin Bradshaw. Sometime this spring NBC will tell the same story in Nutcracker: Money, Madness, Murder, a six-hour mini-series drawn from Shana Alexander's book on the same subject. It was a game of TV chicken: the two networks had bought the rights to the competing books and neither wanted to give up the sensational story...
...Iran-contra arms scandal unfolded on the small screen, Oliver North, who took to quoting the Bible and asking for divine assistance, became a household face and name in an unfinished political mini-series. There is more to come, and it remains to be seen whether North will someday be regarded as a bit player in an ephemeral scandal of a widely popular Administration or the central protagonist in a torturous national drama...
...this month, when Reagan was the newly elected Governor of California and Meese a hard-line Alameda County deputy district attorney. Joining Reagan's staff as legal-affairs adviser, Meese soon rose to become chief of staff. A trusted but low-profile aide, Meese perfected the one-page "mini-memo," in which complex issues were reduced to a few paragraphs for a chief executive who had little patience for details...