1.   I smoothed things out.

2.   A few things helped to smooth things out, though.

3.   Brown and coach Butch Carter met for four hours to try to smooth things out.

4.   Chechen officials have shown no interest yet in smoothing things out.

5.   Having the controller card smooths things out, too.

6.   In order to get a better picture, you have to try and smooth things out.

7.   Jozoff said he hopes the moves announced Wednesday will smooth things out financially.

8.   Ultimately, to have a successful offering, Jupiter would have to smooth things out with Gartner.

9.   Plavsic said only that some things had been smoothed out.

10.   But Plavsic said only that some things had been smoothed out.