Word: straightener
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...trip will also serve to straighten out the rankings of the various players. It should decide the top three positions between Dale Junta, Brooks Harris, and Ham Graven, and unsnarl the tangle of players fighting for positions four through ten. Also a vital factor will be the decision on the arrangement of doubles combinations...
...steal the money he is too weak to work for, and is accidentally killed.'-He goes to heaven, or anyway to some sort of celestial vestibule in which he meets a benevolent old book keeper who lets him come back to earth for just one day to straighten out his ethical accounts...
...industry now had to "pay the price" for borrowing from the future. The industry is also paying for "deteriorating market practices . . . price 'pack,' finance 'pack,' absurd, indefensible credit, misleading advertising, overproduction." But, added Romney, there was no need for Government intervention; the automobile industry would straighten itself...
Fast Recovery. Only in emergencies does Curtice move in and take over. Soon after he became president, he stepped in to straighten out the Allison Division (aircraft engines), which was in trouble because it had been afraid to invest money in research and development unless armed forces orders were assured. By contrast, Competitor Pratt & Whitney had sunk millions in engine development...
Even before Judge Young's decision, the athletic commission decided to straighten things out. Rather than fire the doctors, though, the commission decreed an automatic 30-day suspension of fighters after every knockout...