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Tighter ship?

This, again, usually comes after some sort of trouble has occurred to hurt the company or organization’s standing. By tightening the ship, enforcing rules and discipline for example, they hope they can right the ship again.

Right the ship?

Well, that’s for another day.

Here are media examples of the phrase “run a tight ship”, plus its variation “tighten the ship”:

1. The FBI has conducted two interviews and may schedule a third with the woman who walked out carrying classified documents from what’s supposed to be one of the most secure facilities in the world, the Los Alamos National Laboratory, CBS News has learned. The incident has exposed continuing security weaknesses at Los Alamos, which has been the focus of security and management scandals for seven years.

Sources say 22-year-old Jessica Quintana was hired to archive data from weapons tests, and even had access to information on how to deactivate the locks that keep nuclear weapons from firing. Somehow, she managed to leave the laboratory with hundreds of pages of classified documents and several portable computer storage devices known as “thumb drives.”

As CBS News was first to report, the materials were found by accident in October during a drug raid on Quintana's roommate at their trailer home. Now, a chief watchdog of the Laboratory, Rep. Ed Markey of the House Energy Committee, plans to fire off a scathing letter to the Energy Secretary demanding answers.