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...Republican National Committee, Bush is a canny politician and strong party loyalist. Democratic Senator Frank Church, who heads the committee that has been digging into CIA violations of its charter and the law, argues that the agency needs an independent, tough-minded outsider who is not a politician to straighten it out. Asked Church: "If CIA assessments should collide with a favored course of action at the White House, would a dedicated party man like Mr. Bush be able to stand up to the pressures from a Republican President in an election year?" Bush's hearings, which could...
Hutchison's woes were further aggravated by the recession-a slump in exports depressed its revenues-and by its inability to manage its subsidiaries. The firm's principal lender, the Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corp., began to apply gentlemanly persuasion to straighten Hutchison out. In August the bank agreed to pump $30 million into the company in return for 150 million newly created shares of its stock-on condition that Clague give way to a bank-picked successor. That ultimatum prompted Clague to make a last-ditch effort to raise capital from European banks. He failed...
...race in general, all the ills that flesh is heir to. Being considered universal problem-solvers, they have become universal scapegoats. Their voices may sound across the nation and the world, but what they put forward will not impress a listener who feels that the speaker has failed to straighten out, as he should have done, the listener's own particular problems...
...continued easily--it was obviously something he'd thought about a lot, no sudden outburst but a considered theory--if you have the slightest weakness. Harvard will pick it up, and play on it, and bring it out, and lean on it, and you won't be able to straighten out until you leave...
...technique can produce spectacular results. Wendy Clifford, 16, of Minneapolis, literally grew two inches on the operating table as doctors used a Harrington rod to straighten her crooked spine. "I'm glad I had it done," she says. "The doctors told me that by the time I was 30 I would have been completely crippled...