Word: straightened
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...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...
...Basically we pay our bills when we get them. Occasionally we'll come across a situation where a publisher will call us to put us on credit hold, and we'll straighten it out with a few phone calls," said Jeremiah P. Murphy '73, president of the Coop...
According to Catlin, the average undergraduate visitor to UHS Mental Health Services is meeting with a professional for the first time and needs only five or six visits to straighten out his or her concerns...
Raza President Lilia Fernandez '95 said that the meetings--with Dean of Students Archie C. Epps III and Associate Dean for Undergraduate Education Lawrence Buell--yielded little concrete progress toward improvements in Latino curriculum and faculty hiring. However, they did help to straighten out some misunderstandings, Fernandez said...