So that's what we've been doing with it for the past few weeks to see how well this machine meets the challenge of leading a business i-life.
And in foreign affairs he will anyway not be able to summon all the familiar, muscular instruments of power available to his predecessors: America's military machine as well as its money machine is on the rack.
Walker faces the might of the national public employee union machine, as well as the national Obama political machine, which sees the public employee unions as the core of its political base.
"You talk about a well-oiled machine, those guys are efficient both offensively and defensively, " Raptors coach Dwane Casey said.
"They have a well-oiled machine, " said Patrick, one of the authors of the national study, said of the Knoxville hospital unit.
Happy ones work like a well-oiled machine, phones are answered, deadlines met and everyone goes home whistling to dinner shortly after five.
Instead, she said, the teams of people that take on the biggest, baddest foes in WoW have to work together like a well-oiled machine.
The Paris system is slick in every way: Cool bikes, reasonable prices, excellent placement of stations, and a process that works like a well-oiled machine.
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Given this impressive track record, one would likely assume that that company was a well-oiled machine, deeply disciplined and effectively managed from top to bottom.
Like Harmison, Johnson sometimes gives the impression that his best spells almost happen by happy accident, his action less well-oiled machine than a randomly-firing weapon.
In comparison, the press centre works like a well-oiled machine.
The well-oiled machine that is the Park Slope Parents listserv diagnosed a similar problem before Bococa and began requiring parents who post recommendations for nannies to agree to an integrity code.
The Brotherhood has been a well-oiled machine for centuries.
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"To step into something that was already a well-oiled machine, which is effectively the Broadway cast, it was very much on my mind to not be the weakest link, but once I got comfortable with everything, it was such a fun character and so over the top, " Ferrell says.
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The meeting cancellation resets not only my alarm clock but the coffee machine as well.
Last week the right-leaning groups backing Jones looked more like bratty children than cogs in a well-oiled conspiracy machine.
Though the Brotherhood played little role in the revolution, its well-honed political machine succeeded in getting its supporters to the polls.
Proof of the lesson my Chinese gurus are teaching me: China is fast becoming a consumer economy as well as an export machine.
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Well, the rumor machine is clunking back into gear after those staggering defeats, and we've got the scoop on the juiciest stuff out there.
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"Tony Sale would expect to see good research and the understanding of the machine as well as a working replica built in either software or hardware, " he said.
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The machine worked well enough which was part of the problem.
It expanded by 6% a year from 1952 to 2000, powered by a well-oiled export machine that catapulted the resource-poor island of 23 million people into the major leagues.
For the veterans who remember when Goldman wasn't the well-oiled trading machine it has become, there is a view that it has lost its way ethically in recent decades.
Sony said it was also exploring the possibility of using its Gaikai unit to allow PlayStation 3 games to be played on the new machine as well as other devices.
Intel is betting Silverthorne, slated for next year, will help create a new class of lightweight devices that can perform as well as a desktop machine using significantly less power.
StarLogger is a publicly available keylogging tool that can capture anything typed into a machine as well screenshots and send that data silently to an email address that the installer chooses.
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Italy's Juventus is steaming towards an undefeated season and the electrifying Borussia Dortmund has clinched the German Bundesliga, England's limp contenders are giving fans plenty of fuel for their well-oiled anxiety machine.
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