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...popular finance program, from Intuit, won the 1993 PC Magazine Editor's Choice award and has been trusted by many who rely on it to straighten their finances...
...much as you can with that job, he seems to be making a good reputation for himself. If he can straighten out the glass ashtray procurement problem, we'll probably declare him a national hero. But I must say in terms of fun, he's no Dan Quayle...
...director pledged her full support forfuture cooperation. "I'm going to be working veryhard with the board [to straighten things out],"Neighbor said...
...Before we decide that they've done something wrong, we ought to look at the whole track record and give them some credit for all the things they've done right," he said. "They really have been leading the pack and if there are still things to be straightened out, then we ought to try to figure out how to straighten them...
...move that has whipped up an uncharacteristically public feud in Hollywood, Ovitz has gone one, possibly crucial step further: he has been retained by Credit Lyonnais, the French bank that took over MGM/United Artists in a foreclosure last year, to straighten out its bad-news, $3.4 billion movie-loan portfolio (last month the bank wrote off a third of those loans), to find new investments and, Ovitz hopes, to sell the studio. In the view of Jeff Berg, who runs rival International Creative Management, Ovitz's arrangement makes him crypto-chairman of MGM, which represents an untenable -- and perhaps illegal...