Word: straightener
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Gibson added that the Department would make no further comments about the library until it has had "a chance to straighten things out at a meeting...
...been bothered by the proconsumer vigor that Kirkpatrick injected into the once lethargic FTC. Under him the agency began requiring advertisers to submit periodic documentation of their claims. The FTC ordered a few advertisers-including Sugar Information, Inc. and the makers of Profile bread-to run corrective ads to straighten out earlier misleading claims. The FTC also advocated that broadcasters allow "counteradvertising" by groups that oppose a product or a message that regular advertisers are trying to push. Under the proposal, for example, antipollution forces would be entitled to free time to rebut auto-company commercials. The FTC charged four...
...chips from the national foundation, the part of the country that goes on by itself no matter who is President. They don't dig ditches or conceive the New Economics. They run the firms that build industrial plants and houses; they sell refrigerators, play pianos, bury the dead and straighten teeth...
...glib-talking hustlers who had built too big on shaky foundations. Further, the Administration, responding to complaints from established businessmen that the conglomerate operators were dangerous predators, started a particularly vigorous antitrust drive. Jim Ling was its prime target. Justice Department suits prevented him from doing anything to straighten out the problems at the biggest and most troubled company that he had acquired, Jones & Laughlin Steel...
Acquisition of the site will also help straighten out several roads that had to be detoured around it. Even so, the Potsdam station is evidently not going to yield to liberation without a struggle. On the instructions of worried West Berlin officials, workmen last week were stringing lines of barbed wire along its boundaries. There were fears that curious West Berliners, poking around in the ruins, might be crushed by the crumbling walls of the old Haus Vaterland dance hall, which stood near the station ruins, or blown up by unexploded bombs and artillery shells left there since World...