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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Mercosur borders are more open in theory than fact: getting goods across can still be a time-consuming (and, at times, palm-greasing) affair.

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One of the new offences is failure by a firm to prevent third parties (such as contractors or agents) greasing palms on its behalf.

ECONOMIST: Corporate misbehaviour

The Irish government isn't above greasing the wheels a bit either.

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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.

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The lowering of import barriers across Asia is greasing this plan.

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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.

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So there was no greasing for this vote.

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Why are you greasing the switches yourself?

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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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