Jack Smith's way is to work the machine, not just throw a spanner in it.

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Influential people within the party machine had been dismayed by what they saw as Mr Duncan Smith's pettiness and insecurity.

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"The best advice they could follow is to build the team into being an effective, money-making machine again, " said Andrew Zimbalist, a noted sports economist and Smith College professor.

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Within months Smith had set up a 1, 000-person plant in Yanzhou filled with equipment from his defunct machine shop and others.

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