Word: straightened
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...irony link; it was the Seattle band Pearl Jam that accused Ticketmaster of monopolizing rock-concert ticket sales. And it wasn't too long ago that Microsoft wiggled out of the antitrust docket at the Justice Department. Microsoft chairman Bill Gates knows whom to call to straighten this out. Ticketmaster is controlled by Paul Allen, co-founder of Microsoft...
Sitting around a conference table in the den of the city's top brass, 17 teenagers were yakking about sneakers, CK perfume and how they were going to straighten out Boston's inner-city neighborhoods...
...think that we got a little complacent," Craigen said. "We're a little inexperienced this year, not used to getting up and getting down. We're just trying to straighten out the hills and the valleys...
...which raises the other great wonder about Dole: How has someone who has managed to survive 36 years in Washington come this far in presidential politics without a tight circle of advisers around him with the stature to tell him what to do, when to straighten up, when to stick to the script no matter what? Maintaining a strict posture on his message and delicately balancing competing agendas are the essential first and second positions of presidential ballet. And it is vital to have a merciless coach or two. Ronald Reagan had them. So did George Bush...
Gangly Gerald Conlon is a young Northern Irishman going through all the normal foibles of adolescence--stealing scrap metal, starting riots, having his kneecaps threatened by the IRA--until his father ships him to London to 'straighten out'. When a series of IRA bombs terrorizes the city, Gerry is one of four Irishmen wrongly accused, tortured, railroaded, and imprisoned by the nasty Brits. Gerry's da is imprisoned along with Gerry, and later dies in jail, all of which makes for excellent drama and is a great showcase for Lewis' mesmerizing intensity...