What's more, a machine-made surface produces the wrong kind of friction: to do its job precisely, the plate's surface needs minute scorings, of only a few microns each, where machine oil can reside.

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Of the Seven Sisters of Declining Exports, six are countries where the oil machine is run by a national oil firm.

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Just a bit too late, he realises that he is nothing more that a small cog in the machine that delivers oil to American consumers at affordable prices.

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There is no alternative to machine lubrication outside of oil.

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One day in metal shop Packard caught his fingers in a milling machine while trying to add coolant oil from a handheld spout.

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You wouldn't take a machine out into the field without putting oil in it.

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The South American nation, then ruled by military dictator Ernesto Geisel, needed oil to run its industrial machine, which was booming at the time.

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The attackers machine-gunned the vehicle after it crossed from the Republic of Congo into Angola's oil-rich territory of Cabinda.

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Meanwhile, George W. Bush , a man who has spent his career in the most unpredictable industries imaginable, oil exploration and baseball, suddenly becomes the advocate of the cut-and-dried machine solution to a complex and subtle problem well beyond the tolerances of the machines in use.

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