But golf is good both for tourism and for greasing the wheels of business that propel the world's second-largest economy.
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Instead, make sure that you know the right people, or at the very least, plan on greasing a few palms.
But the porous nature of the border combined with the ease of greasing officials' palms make it tough to stem the flow.
Mercosur borders are more open in theory than fact: getting goods across can still be a time-consuming (and, at times, palm-greasing) affair.
One of the new offences is failure by a firm to prevent third parties (such as contractors or agents) greasing palms on its behalf.
The Irish government isn't above greasing the wheels a bit either.
But the Obama administration has done a slick job of greasing the wheels of international commerce and quelling what could have been veritable repeal riots.
The lowering of import barriers across Asia is greasing this plan.
Dealers in coca or cocaine have their own reasons for palm-greasing, and also finance cross-border trade in other goods as one way of laundering their profits.
As elsewhere in the Arab world, palm-greasing and kickbacks are a way of life, and no one believed a serious effort would be made to change things.
Y. all that time without exercise and then trying to do nothing, but headwork when came back was working the one part without greasing it with the other.
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With interest rates declining throughout the 2000s, and a Western and Japanese unified monetary policy of easy money greasing the wheels, investors geared up into equities on margin.
Lloyds stole a march on the competition by greasing the wheels for Shariah-compliant bank-to-bank transactions, and now Britain has a bigger Shariah finance sector than Egypt or Pakistan.
Those who had no political power, who were not greasing the electoral campaigns of the politicians, got both no protection of their interests, they got those tariffs imposed upon their consumption as well.
Net interest margin declined to 3.66%, a reflection of the low interest rate environment being orchestrated by the Federal Reserve thanks to its asset purchase programs over the past several years aimed at greasing the skids for an economic recovery.
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If I were a betting man, I would put pennies on the dollar that the local authorities are in bed with whatever contractor is going to build that sports facility, and that they will amply compensated for greasing the wheels and expediting its construction.
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The way our society works, you get what you pay for and sometimes we talk about greasing the wheels: a twenty to the Maitre D, ten bucks to the handyman, a two-for-one at the local coffee shop, a single malt to your banker at Christmas.
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