There are still serious questions about whether the company has cleaned up its act since its $11 billion accounting fraud was exposed.
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clean up your act — clean up its/your act INFORMAL ► to start to obey laws or accepted standards of behaviour: »There are still serious questions about whether the company has cleaned up its act since its $11 billion accounting fraud was exposed. Main Entry: ↑clean … Financial and business terms
clean up its act — clean up its/your act INFORMAL ► to start to obey laws or accepted standards of behaviour: »There are still serious questions about whether the company has cleaned up its act since its $11 billion accounting fraud was exposed. Main Entry: ↑clean … Financial and business terms
clean — In the context of general equities, block trade that matches buy or sell orders/interests, sparing the block trader any inventory risk (no net position and hence none available for additional customers). natural. Antithesis of open. Bloomberg… … Financial and business terms
clean — clean1 W2 [kli:n] adj comparative cleaner superlative cleanest ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ 1¦(not dirty)¦ 2¦(people/animals)¦ 3¦(environment)¦ 4¦(fair or legal)¦ 5¦(not offensive)¦ 6 come clean 7 make a clean breast of it … Dictionary of contemporary English
clean — 1 /kli:n/ adjective 1 WITHOUT DIRT without any dirt or marks: Are your hands clean? | a clean towel | sweep/scrub etc sth clean: Wipe that sink clean when you re done. | clean and tidy/neat: Try to keep your room clean and tidy. | spotlessly… … Longman dictionary of contemporary English
Clean coal — Historically[1] used to refer to technologies for reducing emissions of ash, sulfur, and heavy metals from coal combustion; the term is now commonly used to refer to carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology. Clean coal is an umbrella term used … Wikipedia
act — [[t]æ̱kt[/t]] ♦ acts, acting, acted 1) VERB When you act, you do something for a particular purpose. The deaths occurred when police acted to stop widespread looting and vandalism... [V adv/prep] I have no reason to doubt that the bank acted… … English dictionary
Forbidden Broadway Cleans Up Its Act — is the fifth incarnation of Gerard Alessandrini s Forbidden Broadway , his popular off Broadway musical revue spoofing the best of Broadway . All the parody lyrics were written (as always) by Gerard Alessandrini. This version was co directed by… … Wikipedia
Migratory Bird Treaty Act of 1918 — The Migratory Bird Treaty Act of 1918 (MBTA), codified at 16 U.S.C. §§ 703–712 (although §709 is omitted), is a United States federal law, at first enacted in 1916 in order implement the convention for the protection of migratory birds… … Wikipedia
National Environmental Policy Act — For other uses of NEPA , see NEPA (disambiguation). National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 Full title National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 Acronym NEPA Enacted by the 91st United States Congress … Wikipedia
