Word: straightener
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...three beautiful daughters of Boston's great Neurosurgeon Harvey Gushing. She is much more celebrated than he is, always appearing on lists of the ten best-dressed or -coiffed or just looking out from a photograph with a coolly amiable glance that makes men instinctively straighten their ties. Because she reads widely and far more than he has time to, he seems to look to her for literary judgments in much the way he depends on men like Jim Aubrey for first opinions about new gumshoes, comedians and hillbillies. The Paleys have been married for 16 years. Each...
...Friedrich Engels. Yet who should be serving up lemonade last week than that old realist Nikita Khrushchev. In the Kremlin's marble-hailed Palace of the Congresses, addressing the Communist Party Central Committee and more than 5,000 other comrades, Nikita promised that one great force would miraculously straighten out the Soviet economic mess: Big Chemistry...
...Formerly often called orthodontia-until orthodontists decided to straighten the name of their own specialty to match obstetrics, pediatrics, geriatrics...
...hard to straighten out a company, but to make it grow-that's another question," says President William Edwin Grace, 55, of Detroit's Fruehauf Corp. Five years ago, when Grace was called in to straighten out the nation's largest truck-trailer maker, Fruehauf was loaded with a $250 million debt and a big fleet of unsold trailers, and was heading toward red ink. Grace overhauled Fruehauf's loose corporate structure, set up a rigid system of divisions and committees copied from General Motors, and "gave people authority as well as responsibility to get their...
...delighting some installment debtors, the court decisions jolted the state's economy. Several large finance companies have already withdrawn from operations in Nebraska. Sales of new and used cars have slumped for lack of financing. Last week state legislators proposed more than a dozen different bills designed to straighten up the mess. One remedy advocated by many Nebraska businessmen is to change the overall limit from 9% to 12%, which would make it possible to finance future installment sales profitably. But that would still leave past contracts in a state of legal chaos...