Almost half of Mr Kirchner's votes came from the sprawling province of Buenos Aires, suggesting that Mr Duhalde's longstanding political machine there is still well oiled.
But its existing position in growth markets, technology leadership and well oiled new product development capability nearly assures continued profitbale growth for at least 5 years.
At the White House, the speechwriting machine is especially well oiled with multiple writers churning out drafts, senior advisers scribbling comments, and fact checkers verifying every word.
"One of the big pulls of coming back was playing behind a forward pack that is so well oiled and so well regarded, " Grindal told BBC Radio Leicester.
And there have lately been a lot of decisions--particularly for cancer drugs such as Sutent from Pfizer or Avastin from Genentech--where the process has seemed timely, well oiled, even predictable.
With long-time collaborators, Philippa Boyens and Fran Walsh, Jackson had established a "reasonably well oiled and comfortable" process for making big-budget, special effects movies, and he was keen to take on a new challenge.
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And there have lately been a lot of decisions--particularly for cancer drugs such as Sutent from Pfizer (nyse: PFE - news - people ) or Avastin from Genentech (nyse: DNA - news - people )--where the process has seemed timely, well oiled, even predictable.
Does the well-oiled, widely feted political machinery of the White House run on its own?
Guffawing critics ridicule this well-oiled "Singabore", casting its good citizens as naive, skin-deep and unadventurous.
There is plainly a delight (and maybe competition) among father and sons in building well-oiled, endlessly churning profit machines.
When private demand suddenly plunges, it helps to have a well-oiled machinery of state that can quickly step in.
"You talk about a well-oiled machine, those guys are efficient both offensively and defensively, " Raptors coach Dwane Casey said.
Last week the right-leaning groups backing Jones looked more like bratty children than cogs in a well-oiled conspiracy machine.
The police operation to cope with the influx is already well-oiled after last year's final, when Arsenal lost to Liverpool.
"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.
Vendors are excellent at squeezing value from well-oiled commodity technologies.
In comparison, the press centre works like a well-oiled machine.
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.
France suffered Iranian-inspired bombings in the 1980s and Algerian ones in the 1990s, but has remained largely unscathed in recent years, thanks in part to a well-oiled counter-terrorist apparatus.
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The President and the Secretary of Energy should continue the reforms of the last four years, but also continue reforming DOE to make it a well-oiled engine for clean energy innovation.
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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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