Word: straightened
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...perspective, all that matters right now are the baffling electronic registers. The training center itself is a full-scale mock-up of a fast-food restaurant, complete with menu board, soft-drink dispenser and enthusiastic instructor Bernadean Rouse, who plays a hard-driving shift manager. As she attempts to straighten out Jupiter, she shouts a general alert to the class: "If you don't hit the keys really hard, the numbers don't come up." Students help one another find the maddeningly elusive cash-register keys--there are 119 of them--while reminding their fellows to "Smile," "Make eye contact...
Albee calls this woman "A," and in the first act we see her, a rich and somewhat senile nonagenarian, ensconced in her room with its elegant furnishings and silver tea service. She is joined by B, her hired companion, and C, the young woman lawyer who is trying to straighten out the elderly woman's finances. In the second act, B and C become earlier incarnations of A, and the three--now all one woman, at different stages of her life--open up to each other, and to the audience. It is a brilliant coup de theatre, which first presents...
...madness of that war. Soon his friends are on their way home; either dead or seriously wounded. Anthony, addicted to this to make him a man. Instead, it made it hard for him to sleep through the night. Taking a job at the butcher's, Anthony tries to straighten out his life, but he is soon sucked into a scheme to hijack an armored car. At this point the audience must wonder how many times this film can change gears. Just as one gets comfortable with the pace, the Hughes Brothers slam it into reverse. As can be expected...
...clueless as the MK board members might appear, experts in corporate governance say there is often little that outside directors can do to straighten out a com-pany before things go very wrong. "They often hear from management, 'Don't worry. It's just a temporary trend,' " says Jay Lorsch, a professor at the Harvard Business School. "It is very hard, even for a very smart group of directors, to understand these things...
...working for?" Pause. "Does he understand that Texas has passed criminal-nonsupport statutes?" Pause. "Do you think he may be afraid to call? That if he calls he will go to jail? Tell him I will work with him in any way I can to help him straighten this out." Final pause. "But if I find out where he' s working and he hasn' t called, I won't give him the courtesy of a phone call. l'll attach his wages." James hangs up. He's good: people he wants to pay up, usually pay up. That makes their...