Word: oiled
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...machine, it's broken. Oil the machine...
...There's a cog in the wheel. The machine is most definitely broken. I will oil the wheel...
...Oil the machine. It seems, it seems...
...Oil the machine. It seems to be broken," the voter said...
...cash flow and expedient ways of dealing with competition are givens, but this story is set in the '80s--and the slick Clericuzios make the Corleones seem as if they just got off the boat. Gone from the new novel are the entry-level rackets and suspiciously profitable olive-oil business. Instead, family head Don Domenico Clericuzio rules an Exxon of organized crime aided by a son with a degree from Wharton. All the messiness of securing market share is in the past. Years before, the Clericuzios eliminated their main rivals, the Santadios, in one quick and nasty operation. Imagine...